| Temple Grandin | |
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| Distributed by | HBO Films |
| Written by | Christopher Monger Merritt Johnson |
| Directed by | Mick Jackson |
| Produced by | Scott Ferguson |
| Starring | Claire Danes Catherine O'Hara Julia Ormond David Strathairn |
| Editing by | Leo Trombetta |
| Music by | Alex Wurman |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | HBO |
| Release date | February 6, 2010 |
Temple Grandin is a 2010 biopic directed by Mick Jackson and starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, a woman with autism who has become one of the top scientists in humane livestock handling.
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The biography film starts off with Temple visiting her aunt for the summer and work on her ranch. Temple had always been fascinated by animals because they "thought like her" and she seems very interested in a machine that hugs the cows to "gentle them". One day, while having a panic attack, Temple places herself in the machine and it immediately calms her down.
When she first attended college, she was very nervous and was very nervous when she moved into her college dorm. Temple had another panic attack in her room, and her mother gave her space by closing the door. Immediately after her mother had a flash back to when Temple was little and her relentless tantrums. Before that, when she was diagnosed, Temple was diagnosed with classic autism, a severe case of autism in which she seemed aloof, lacked eye contact, had no language, and avoided human affection and touch. At this time, science classified autism as a form of schizophrenia, blaming mothers' as the cause for the disorder claiming that they were cold and brutal to their autistic child, calling them "refrigerator mothers". The diagnostician suggested placing Temple in an institution. Temple's mother refused to listen to the diagnostician and helped Temple adapt to the everyday world. Her mother hired a speech therapist, who worked one-on-one with Temple, enabled her to acquire language.
During Temple's college years, she conceptualized the squeeze machine, which was designed for herself because she had a sensory integration dysfunction and disliked physical affection by people. The machine hugs both sides of her to calm her down, as she controls the pressure, and it makes her relaxed whenever she's becomes tense. Even though the machine worked, the school forced her to remove the machine, claiming that it was some kind of sexual device. Later after spring break ended, Temple and her aunt came back to school to persuade the school to let her use the device, explaining that she isn't having an orgasm with it. Temple later proved through a scientific study that the machine did work for her purpose and, as a result, she was allowed to keep it.
Later on, the movie flashes back to when Temple was just getting into a new high school, because she was expelled from her other one because a child taunted her and she hit the child with a book. There she meets her supportive teacher, Dr. Carlile, who encourages her to go further into science as a career and to eventually attend college. Temple eventually graduates from college, then becomes a worker at a ranch, rebuilds a new dip, and alters a slaughter house for cows that is much more humane. The film concludes with an autism fair convention in which Temple and her mother attends. She explains to everyone about her struggling past and how her mother helped her deal with the everyday world. Everyone becomes so fascinated that they request her to speak in the front of the auditorium.
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