Temple Grandin
Short description
Temple Grandin is autistic at a time when few doctors in the United States understood the condition. Diagnosed as a young child in the early 1950s, she is nonverbal in her early years and uncomfortable with physical contact, perceiving the world differently from those around her and thinking in pictures. Rather than send her to an institution, her mother works out ways of reaching her, and with that support and the encouragement of a teacher, Dr. Carlock, she completes her schooling. Her mind for mathematics and her observation of cattle-handling equipment on her aunt's ranch lead her toward a career designing more humane livestock facilities, and toward an invention of her own that lets her feel held and safe.
The film recounts that life. Mick Jackson directs the HBO production, which came after his earlier features L.A. Story, The Bodyguard and Volcano. Claire Danes plays Temple Grandin, with David Strathairn as Professor Carlock among a credited cast of 58.
Released in 2010, the drama runs 108 minutes. On IMDb it holds 8.2 from around 36,000 votes and on TMDB 7.9 from a much smaller number, while a film critics' rating stands at 9 out of 10 across 30 reviews, so critics rated it more warmly than audiences and audiences responded to it strongly in their own right.
What's left behind the scenes
- An early draft of the script included a romantic relationship for Temple Grandin, but Grandin herself objected to this, as she has never been in a romantic relationship.
- Temple Grandin’s remark about wanting her life to have meaning and her ideas not to die with her was made during a conversation with neurologist Oliver Sacks when he was writing an article about Grandin for The New Yorker.
- The Emmy statuette awarded to Julia Ormond for her role in this film is displayed at the Autism and Brain Development Center in New York. The actress gifted it to Temple Grandin, whom she portrayed in the film, on November 19, 2010, and together they donated the statuette to the Center on May 8, 2016, in honor of all women raising children with autism.
- Scenes depicting cows drowning or in danger were not filmed with live animals, but with animatronic models.
- The film is based on the book "Emergence: Labeled Autistic" (1986) by Temple Grandin and Margaret Scariano, and on Temple Grandin’s book "Thinking in Pictures" (1996).
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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