SpecialStories

Major Character with a Disability: Thad Stone (played by Tyrone Giordano)
Actor with a Disability: Tyrone Giordano
Short Description
An uptight, conservative, businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family’s annual Christmas celebration and finds that she’s a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Main Cast
Claire Danes – Julie Morton
Diane Keaton – Sybil [...]

Major Character with a Disability: Luke Martin (played by Jon Voight)
Actors with Disabilities: none
Oscars for: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jon Voight), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jane Fonda), Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones)

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Short Description
A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam [...]

Major Character with a Disability: Christy Brown (played by Daniel Day-Lewis)
Actors with Disabilities: none
Oscars for: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Daniel Day-Lewis), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Brenda Fricker)

Christy and his mother
Short Description
Christy Brown who was born with cerbral palsy struggles to develop his talents.
Main Cast:
Daniel Day-Lewis – Christy Brown
Brenda Fricker – Mrs. [...]

Major Character with a Disability: Lt. Dan Taylor (played by Gary Sinise)
Actors with Disabilities: none
Oscars for: Best Actor in a Leading Role: Tom Hanks; Best Director: Robert Zemeckis; Best Picture: Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey, Steve Tisch; Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Eric Roth; Gary Sinise was nominated for Best Actor in [...]

Major Character with a Disability: Professor Charles Xavier (played by Patrick Stewart)
Actors with Disabilities: none
Short Description
Mutants with various super powers struggle for acceptance in society while battling evil doers who are both mutants and non-mutants.
Main Cast:
Hugh Jackman – Logan/Wolverine
Patrick Stewart – Professor Charles Xavier
Ian McKellen – Eric Lensherr/Magneto
Famke Janssen – Jean Grey
James Marsden – Scott [...]

Major Character with a Disability: Raymond Babbitt (played by Dustin Hoffman)
Actors with Disabilities: none
Oscars for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role: Dustin Hoffman), Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Charlie and Raymond
Short Description
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt’s father dies and leaves a fortune — to Raymond, the institutionalized savant brother that Charlie didn’t know he [...]

Major Character with a Disability: Carla (played by Juliette Lewis) Actors with Disabilities: none
Short Description
A girl with intellectual disabilities proves herself to be every bit as capable as her sister when she moves out on her own.

Carla and Daniel
Main Cast:
Juliette Lewis – Carla Tate
Diane Keaton – Elizabeth Tate
Tom Skerritt – Dr. Radley Tate
Giovanni [...]

Major Character with a Disability: Sam (played by Sean Penn)
Actors with Disabilities: Joseph Rosenberg and Brad Allan Silverman
Short Description
Sam, a man with an intellectual disability fights to keep custody of his 7-year-old daughter.
Main Cast:
Sean Penn – Sam Dawson
Michelle Pfeiffer – Rita Harrison
Dakota Fanning – Lucy Diamond Dawson
Dianne Wiest – Annie Cassell
Loretta Devine – Margaret Calgrove
Richard [...]

Major Character with a Disability: Radio (played by Cuba Gooding Jr.)
Actors with Disabilities: none
Short Description
A high school football coach befriends Radio, a student with an intellectual disability.
Main Cast:
Cuba Gooding Jr. – Robert ‘Radio’ Kennedy
Ed Harris – Coach Jones
Alfre Woodard – Principal Daniels
Debra Winger – Linda
S. Epatha Merkerson – Maggie
Brent Sexton – Honeycutt
Riley Smith – Johnny
Chris [...]

Supporting Actors with a Disability: Leonard Flowers, Eddie Barbanell, John Taylor, and Nicole Bradley
Other Actors with Disabilities: 150 Special Olympians
Short Description
Desperate for cash, a man without an intellectual disability enters a Special Olympics event in the hopes of rigging the result.
Main Cast:
Johnny Knoxville – Steve Barker
Eddie Barbanell – Billy DeVore
Leonard Flowers – Jimmy
John Taylor – [...]