Director: Mick Jackson Writer(s): Christopher Monger, Merritt Johnson (teleplay), Temple Grandin, Margaret Scarciano (book "Emergence") Temple Grandin (book "Thinking in Pictures") Starring: Claire Danes, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara, Julia Ormond We are introduced to Temple Grandin (Clare Danes) as abruptly and uncomfortably as Temple would introduce herself – with Danes’ face in close-up revealing her social awkwardness and uncontrollable excitement as she says “Hello, I’m Temple Grandin!” We are quickly transported back to a seminal period in Temple’s childhood, the summer she spent on her Aunt Ann’s (Catherine O’Hara) cattle ranch between high school and college. This was Temple’s first immersion into the livestock industry and it was also when she truly began to gain control of her autism, thanks in part to an invention of hers called the “hug machine.” Told partly in flashbacks, we also spend a good quantity of time with...
- 2/7/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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