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Summary: Simply the best
Review: This movie is about a family that has experienced a great loss. The father dies in another country and the little girl recedes into a vary dark place. Mourning. In this she exhibites all signes of Autisim. Her mother Kathleen Turner does not believe this, The girl is 6 and very bright - speaks different languages ect. She does everything she can to help her child. Tommy Lee Jones plays an excellent roll as her doctor. The mother and doctor battle over what is best for the child. The mother figures out where the child is trying to go - to the moon to be with her father. (watch all the signs through out the movie and what the friend from the other contry tells the girl ). The girl sees the truth at the end and she snaps out her withdrawn world. And returns to her normal happy self. This is a wonderful movie! It is in NO way about drugs for medical use or other. One of Tommy lee Jones's best!!! I recommend to anyone looking for a movie they can not pull them selves away from.
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Summary: A HOUSE TURNED BACK INTO A HOME!
Review: This movie is absolutely wonderful. Kathleen Turner plays a mother who isn't about to sit down and watch her young daughter go into never-never-land. The child is brilliant and through her various machinations unknowingly helps mother to devise an ingenious plan to snap her out of what is an almost catonic state since her father died in a terrible fall while working in another country.I loved and adored this movie and would highly recommend. Nothing like this has ever been done before and it is heartwarming to see this mother go past all the usual psychiatric methods and devise a system to bring her daughter back to her. WONDERFUL!
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Summary: A WONDERFUL MOVIE!
Review: This movie really makes you wonder at the end its an awesome movie for all ages!
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Summary: This movie is a must for all who work with young children.
Review: This movie was a profound, sensitive and insightful voyage into the fragile psyche and intelligence of children. As a production, I found the cast and screenplay to be superb. This should be a requirement of professional development of those who work with young children: teachers, social workers, psychologists, etc., as well as for students working to enter those fields. Remember......when you watch this movie you must be very quiet........
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Summary: A Movie about Hope and Motherhood!
Review: This story is NOT about drugs or Autism. It's about a mother's journey to reach out to her daughter and the need to find healing after tragedy. It's a mystical and heart-warming story about a girl who withdraws into herself to reach out to her recently deceased father. Tommy Lee Jones is a court appointed child psychologist assigned to assess her mental condition. Yes, he works with Autistic children, but that's only part of his job. Kathleen Turner is the mother who can't deal with her husband's death, let alone her daughter's strange withdrawal. The child DOES NOT take any psychotropic drugs. She leads Turner and Jones through a mystical journey to find peace for her father's soul and heal the wounds of his loss for herself and her mother. A very spiritually uplifting tale.
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Summary: Truly Touching
Review: This was an amazing movie. There's nothing more to say
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Summary: dealer's choice
Review: though i may be a bit biased as i have worked with adults with developmental disabilities for years & was working with a woman with autistic tendencies when i saw this movie for the first time, i must say i *really* liked it. in a society where we're all so detached & compartmentalized, it was great to see a story where a woman who isn't an "expert" be motivated to try to understand her daughter instead of trying to "fix" her. i can attest from actual experience that this seems to be the most crucial element to reaching anyone (autistic or not). it was also refreshing to see options other than medication be explored (i personally believe drugs can be wonderful blessings, but that they are turned to far too often & far too quickly in this day and age) it was simply the luck of the draw that i came across this movie, but want to share my fortune with others ~ enjoy the movie!
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Summary: Storytelling vs reality
Review: Viewers who gushed over this movie got caught up in the magic--of the mystic world of shamans. It is a good movie. The little girl is charming and a couple scenes are riveting. But it does a disservice to those doctors who spend their lives with autistic children. Of course, the girl is NOT autistic--she just has every symptom. The experienced doctor misses this point until the very end. Turner is very good--first as the mother who refuses to accept reality and then as the sleuth who discovers the truth others have missed. The computer-generated house of cards is wonderful--also completely unbelievable. Is there really hardware and software that can do this? I wish the doctor had seen the truth and given the mother the clues she needed to effect the cure. Instead, the doctor--and all of Western medicine--is wrong. The scenes where the mother is wrong are the most convincing, but the best scenes by far are those where the little girl goes walkabout, especially the one where she "disappears." My students (I teach English) rated the movie much higher--like most of the other reviews. The negative reviews wanted the film to stick to reality. Well, that's NOT a requirement, unless you think there really are alien creatures with acid for blood and telescoping mouths within mouths. If you can suspend your disbelief (hard for the reviewer with an autistic child), this is a good movie. I found the ending a bit fascile and a bit too precious, but it is a "mommy" movie and one where females play pivotal and important roles. How many of those are there?
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Summary: Unrealistic, scary
Review: With its unrealistic "cure" for autism, this movie can be harmful to millions of parents and loved ones of children with autism.
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