If you like movies where autistic children are magical super-beings with the power to defeat Satan then 2000's Bless the Child is the movie for you!
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Philip Seymour Hoffman is heartbreaking and hilarious as an autistic man who strikes up a pen pal friendship with a lonely Australian girl in the poignant 2009 stop motion animated Mary And Max.
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When it comes to pop culture representation of life on the spectrum, it doesn’t get worse or more insulting than Fred Durst’s deplorable 2019 psychodrama The Fanatic.
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Best picture, must be doing something right!
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The last Elvis movie is also the first to deal explicitly with autism.
Does it deal with it tastefully, with great sensitivity and care? No. No it does not.
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There are, strangely, a lot of movies that depict autistic children as super-genius turbo-savants, but few are as shameless about it as Shane Black’s underwhelming science-fiction thriller The Predator.
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If you enjoy movies where Autistic children are magical super-geniuses then you’ll dig the 1998 thriller Mercury Rising.
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In the first entry in Autism in Entertainment I write about the ridiculously convoluted Autismsploitation thriller The Accountant. It stars Ben Affleck as THE ACCOUNTANT. He’ll audit you—to death!
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