Movies with Disabled Character
FusionFury
Posts: 14,121 Forum Member
✭✭
I watched I am Sam the other day, and before that Jack with Robin Williams and I really enjoyed them.
Any other classics I've missed?
Any other classics I've missed?
0
FusionFury
Posts: 14,121
Comments
With Daniel Day Lewis
What's eating gilbert grape
With Leo Dicaprio
Avatar
https://mubi.com/lists/disability-in-film
There is also a film from 2011, about a wheel chair bound man and his carer that escapes me at the moment.
Brilliant comedy drama about a man who is in an iron lung and hires a professional sex therapist to well, basically have sex with him. It stars John Hawkes and Helen Hunt. It's really good.
Yes, it does seem rather an odd criterion on which to base film choice.
Even odder that it's not enudzio starting yet another one of his banal trainspotter threads.:p
I've heard that Rust and Bone is very good.
The OP may have a disability or know of someone with one and perhaps wants to see how disability is being portrayed in films.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Frankenstein could technically be a disabled movie
Twilight
What's eating Gilbert Grape?
Are you talking about the whole cast and characters?
The main character has a disability which is integral to the plot. But I won't mention what it is because as it's not well known film so will be a spoiler.
And another one of the characters in it becomes disabled in a different way.
With Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Alien: Resurrection
One of the main characters is a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
Dr. Strangelove
Wheelchair bound megalamaniac.
Young Frankenstein
Policeman with a false metal arm.
Daredevil
Matt Murdock is blind.
Freaks
The most obvious example.
Hear no Evil, See no Evil - Deaf and blind person
Zatoichi - Blind Samurai
The Fisher King - Dissociative disorder
My Left Foot - Cerebal Palsy
Tommy - deaf dumb and blind
From the web...
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.