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Tag: asperger’s syndrome

  • Rain Man

    When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father’s $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father’s money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers’ cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

  • Bleeder

    Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man beats his pregnant wife, unaware that her brother is a violent racist.

  • Adam

    Adam, a lonely man with Asperger’s Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

  • Mary and Max

    A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

  • Simple Simon

    Simon has Asperger’s syndrome and doesn’t like changes in his life. He lives with his big brother Sam and Sam’s girlfriend Frida. When Frida can’t stand having to adapt to Simon’s peculiarities anymore she takes off, leaving Simon with having to find a new, perfect, girlfriend for his brother.

  • My Name Is Khan

    Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger’s syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

    A year after his father’s death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.

  • The Other Me

    A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story that features renowned French actor François Cluzet in a key-role.

  • The Good Doctor

    Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital’s surgical unit. Unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.

  • Mr. Know-It-All

    A football coach afraid of commitment has to take care of his nephew with Asperger’s Syndrome.