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Occidental, CA, USA
Intellectual Functioning
Bill
Bill: On His Own
The Other Sister;
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Autism
Backstreet Dreams (1990)
The Boy Who Could Fly
Cries From The Heart
House Of Cards (1993)
Rain Man
Learning Difficulties
About Sara (1998)
And Hope to Die (1972)
Mental Retardation
Best Boy
Bill
Bill, On His Own
Charly
Dominick And Eugene
Of Mice And Men
Sling Blade
To Kill A Mockingbird
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Narcolepsy
My Own Private Idaho
Personality Disorders
The Great Santini
Groundhog Day
In the Company of Men
Like Water for Chocolate!
An Officer and a Gentleman
Isolation
Every Man For Himself And God Against All
Nell
The Wild Child
Spouse Abuse
The Apostle!
Bastard out of Carolina
Dolores Claiborne
The Prince of Tides
What's Love Got to Do With It?
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mood Disorders
The Hospital
Ordinary People
The Slender Thread
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Conduct Disorders
This Boy’s Life
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
As Good As It Gets
Suicide
Dead Poets Society
The Slender Thread
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Attitudes & Rehabilitation
Nobody's Child
Out On The Edge
She's Been Away