Tag: intellectual disability

  • Square Dance

    An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

  • A Quiet Life

    A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.

  • Sling Blade

    Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.

  • There’s Something About Mary

    For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.

  • Strangers from Hell

    Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.

  • Pumpkin

    Carolyn’s sorority sisters set their sights on the Sorority of the Year award and coaching challenged athletes is their ticket to the trophy. But when the queen of formals finds herself mentoring Pumpkin, a disabled athlete, their two worlds collide.

  • Nito

    Nito is a teenager with learning difficulties who has been put into a class with kids younger than him who are always mocking and playing jokes on him. Urged by the ideas they’ve planted in his head, Nito tries to lose his virginity.

  • Sitaare Zameen Par

    A disgraced basketball coach is given the chance to coach a team of players who are intellectually disabled, and soon realizes they just might have what it takes to make it to the national championships.

  • Joyful Noise

    G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir’s newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group’s direction as they head into a national competition.