I Am Sam (2001), Shower (1999), The Drummer and the Keeper (2017), Christmas Break-In (2018), House of D (2004), Dina (2017), Digging to China (1998), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mentally Disabled Person movies.
Storyline: Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song) and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love and whether it's really all you need.
Plot Keywords: father, daughter, mentally disabled person, lawyer, foster mother, friend, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shenzhen businessman, Da Ming, goes home to Beijing when he thinks his father has died. He finds his father hard at work at the family's bathhouse (the false message was a ruse of Da's mentally-handicapped, exuberant brother, Er Ming, to get Da home). Da stays a couple days, observing his father being social director, marriage counselor, and dispute mediator for his customers and a boon companion to Er. Da is caught between worlds: the decaying district of his childhood and the booming south where he now lives with a wife who's not met his family. When Da realizes his father's health is failing and the district is slated for razing, he must take stock of family and future.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: young man, businessman, father, brother, mentally disabled person, heartwarming, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gabriel (DERMOT MURPHY) is a chaotic young rock drummer desperate to hide his recent Bipolar diagnosis from his increasingly exasperated band mates. At the therapeutic mixed ability football game he's obliged to attend as part of his treatment Gabriel is spectacularly upended by goalkeeper Christopher (JACOB McCARTHY), an institutionalised 17-year-old with Aspergers Syndrome. Having taken violent revenge, Gabriel faces expulsion - and the prospect of being sectioned - unless he "makes friends" with Christopher. When the isolated and socially-inept young goalkeeper takes this grudging offer of friendship literally, Gabriel finds his footsteps dogged and secrets threatened by an embarrassingly eager and dangerously tactless new disciple.
Plot Keywords: mentally disabled person, autism, football player, therapist, friend, charming, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Amelia Pittman (Vanessa Simoes) is forced to interact with her father, Fred Pittman (Jody Mitchell) who abandoned her as a child and now has Alzheimer's.
Plot Keywords: woman, chef, business woman, friend, romantic interest, man, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On their son Odell's 13the birthday, graphic artist Tom Warszaw finally confesses to his wife why he fled Greenwich Village, NYC at that age to Paris. As a schoolboy, naturally sensitive, considerate Tommy was best buddy with 'adult' half-wit Pappass, father Duncan's Catholic school's assistant janitor. Smothered by his dependent mother, a dumb orderly, Tommy got 'parental advice' from a women's prison inmate. Together with Pappas, he saves up tips from their butchery delivery rounds. One night, Pappas steals the bike they were saving for. Tommy tries to take the blame, but ends up expelled as if the instigator. Even more tragic consequences follow.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: teen boy, mentally disabled person, teen girl, mother, artist, reverend, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dina is an eccentric and outspoken woman who invites her fiance, Scott, to move in with her. The couple face many challenges as Dina copes with a mental disability, and Scott lives with Asperger's syndrome.
Plot Keywords: couple, mentally disabled person, charming, emotional, inspiring, positive, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 10-year-old Harriet dreams of leaving her home, where she doesn't feel she's needed by her mother and sister Gwen. When her mother dies in a car accident, she really starts to make plans for leaving and she finally does so together with her childlike (mentally ill) friend Ricky.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young girl, mentally disabled person, alcoholic, sister, mother, terminally ill person, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. They become houseguests of the old man and try and seduce the sons in an attempt to locate the money, not realizing that the old man has a few sinister intentions of his own.
Plot Keywords: go-go dancer, tough woman, race car driver, girlfriend, old man, mentally disabled person, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christmas is fast approaching and years of long workdays are about to pay off for Lucy. However, when her older sister unexpectedly passes away, Lucy dreads returning to Nilson's Bay to handle her sister's estate.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, sister, attorney, mentally disabled person, niece, airy, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Carla Tate, now a young woman, is 'graduated' out of the training school where she has resided for many years because she is mentally challenged, her hope is that she will be accepted for all that she can now do for herself. But Carla's family is wealthy which permits her mother, already blinded to her daughter's rather high-functioning abilities, to try and provide for Carla beyond her needs or desires, bringing forth the inevitable confrontations... for what Carla may lack in mental ability she certainly makes up for in her insistence on being independent, even to living in her own apartment. But if this isn't enough, into the mix comes a young man, equally challenged mentally, who moves Carla beyond anyone's control...
Plot Keywords: mentally disabled person, boyfriend, sister, mother, father, veterinarian, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Family drama set in New Zealand about Geoff Crome, a young boy (Fulford) who immerses himself in his own private fantasy world where he meets Firpo (Papps), a strange being who dreams of being an Olympic athlete. Together, the two begin a close friendship as Geoff attempts to help Firpo realise his dream. However, it is not long until the adult world begins to impinge on his fantasy.—Jonathan Broxton <j.w.broxton@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: young boy, mentally disabled person, mother, father, sister, bully, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Loosely based on the William Faulkner novel, this movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Howard passes the time in a bottle; his brother Bengy is child in a man's body; sister Caddy has come crawling home after years of being kept by a string of "admirers." Only Jason, the cruel, cold-hearted adopted head of the family, and Quentin, who was abandoned at birth by Caddy, have the fire and the fury needed to put the family back on its feet again.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: teen girl, stepbrother, mother, carnival worker, mentally disabled person, alcoholic, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Dan O'Grady returns to the U.S. after stealing some Irish leprechaun's pot of gold, he thinks he can settle down and enjoy his newfound wealth. He thought wrong. The leprechaun followed him and O'Grady barely gets away with his life, having locked the little monster in his basement. Ten years later, J.D. and his spoiled daughter Tory move in. By accident, the leprechaun is released and almost immediately the annoying creature starts to look for his gold, not displaying any respect for human life.
Plot Keywords: leprechaun, father, daughter, mentally disabled person, brother, pawnbroker, campy ...
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