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Temple Grandin
2010 1h 48m TV-PG
Biography
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Drama
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History
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A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.
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Directed By
Mick Jackson
Written By
Margaret Scarciano
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Cast of Temple Grandin
Claire Danes
Temple Grandin
David Strathairn
Professor Carlock
Barry Tubb
Randy
Melissa Farman
Alice
Charles Baker
Billy
Blair Bomar
Ellen
Cherami Leigh
Marcia
Tamara Jolaine
Nancy
Julia Ormond
Eustacia
David Born
Professor Shanklin
Catherine O'Hara
Aunt Ann
Chloë Evans
Dorothy
Jordan Strassner
Science Student
Michael D. Conway
Mr. Peters
Xochitl Romero
Penelope
Joe Nemmers
Mr. Neal
Richard Dillard
Don Micheals
David Blackwell
Small Store Clerk
Toby Metcalf
Stacey
Brady Coleman
Abbot Chief Exec.
Silver Renee
Kid / Patient in Waiting Room
Chad McMinn
Graduating Student
Nicole Holt
Autism Symposium Attendee
Jake Messinger
Pallbearer
Cynthia Huerta
Joan
Jessica Looney
Iris
Cassandra L. Small
Autism Symposium Attendee
Kurt Cole
Autism Symposium Attendee
William Akey
Mr. Hodges
Phil Harrington
Dr. Ladenham
Megan Moser
Melanie
Carl Savering
Mr. Goscowicz
Allison Wood
Asylum Nurse
Gabriel Luna
Student Wit
Brian Bentley
Scott
Clark Perry
Cody the Bully
Brett Hill
Birthday Party Boy
Max W. Jenkins
Birthday Party Guest
D.J. Castillo
Science Student
Chris Olson
Mr. Povey
Robert Newell
Henry
Cheryl Cave
Autism Symposium Attendee
Kelli Bland
Science Student / Dorm girl
David L. Dunn
Cowboy at auction
Rick Espaillat
French Lecturer
Mike Rembis
Professor of Letters
Steve Uzzell
Psychologist
David Houston
Car Dealer
Earl Nottingham
Auction Bidder
Rachel McDaniel
Autism Symposium Attendee
Robin Lee Walper
Autism Symposium Host
Patrick Bertucci
Autism Symposium Attendee
Helen Ingham
Teacher
Fred Bothwell
Airport Greeter
Kelsey Buchanan
Birthday Party Friend
Gerry Robert Byrne
John Richmond
Michael Crabtree
Uncle Mike
Temple Grandin Reviews
AV Club
Noel Murray
The conventional biopic beats all get hit here. But Danes' performance is far from conventional.
Entertainment Weekly
Jennifer Armstrong
This thoughtful treatment also helps a severely deglammed Danes transcend a standard awards-bait performance. She in turn gets a nice boost from a strong but understated supporting cast.
Uncle Barky
Ed Bark
As noted, none of this seems like the stuff of riveting drama. It is, though. Still only 30, Danes shows she's now ready and able to take command of any acting challenge put in her path.
Slant Magazine
Peter Swanson
Danes, who's been very good on both the small screen and the big screen, is masterful as Grandin. Though she employs the panicky mannerisms and verbal tics of her subject, she never makes those qualities the central part of her performance.
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
Temple Grandin is an amazingly assembled, superbly acted, strikingly sweet film about Grandin's life -- and the cows' death.
The Atlantic
Alyssa Rosenberg
HBO's fine biopic serves as an important reminder that people with autism spectrum disorders are individuals rather than collections of tics.
Denver Post
Joanne Ostrow
It helps that Danes is phenomenal, going so deep inside the character as to be unrecognizable to fans of her Romeo + Juliet, Me and Orson Welles and My So-Called Life performances.
New York Post
Linda Stasi
Don't miss it -- especially for Danes' career-defining performance. You'll be looking at the next Meryl Streep.
New York Daily News
David Hinckley
Every child diagnosed as autistic isn't Temple Grandin. But in Danes' pitchperfect and unblinking presentation of her story lies the blueprint for how the world should see potential, rather than limitations.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
Even when the predictably rousing moments come, you may not feel manipulated so much as fascinated. The movie keeps its cool, so that Claire Danes can keep her dignity.
Variety
Brian Lowry
Most impressively, Danes gets past the tics of her character -- an autistic woman who "thinks in pictures" -- to create the sort of memorable portrait that frequently yields gilded ornaments as a lovely parting gift.
Wall Street Journal
Dorothy Rabinowitz
So completely does [Claire Danes] capture her subject's hard-learned speech, the genderless stride, the flashes of terror and brilliance and, occasionally, radiant joy, that it's impossible to find a trace of the actor beneath
Los Angeles Times
Mary McNamara
At every turn, Danes and the filmmakers defy convention and expectation, creating not only a true homage to a unique woman, but a cinematic reminder of the way these things should be done.
Hollywood Reporter
Barry Garron
Danes gives an Emmy-worthy portrayal, at once credible and incredible.
New York Times
Alessandra Stanley
This narrative is loyal to Ms. Grandin's credo: emotions are secondary to tangible results. And the result is a movie that is funny, instructive, and also intangibly charming.
At the Movies
Michael Phillips
Exactly the kind of idiosyncratic project that gave HBO its reputation in the first place.
At the Movies
A.O. Scott
The best biopic in a very, very long time.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rob Owen
Temple Grandin turns out to be the kind of biopic Hollywood rarely makes anymore: It's positive, revealing and surprising; an intelligent period piece without sex or violence that's virtually free of profanity.
PopMatters
Daynah Burnett
The film simply asks us to reconsider how we view those with autism, and by the end of the film, it's worked.
Boston Herald
Mark A. Perigard
I keep coming back to Ormond, who can be heartbreaking as the mother who yearns for the hug she will never get but is nonetheless determined that her child's potential will be realized.
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