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Great Film overall

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I'm writing this review as someone very familiar with autism.First of all, Temple Grandin is a remarkable lady and her story is an inspiring one. Clair Danes does a great job and the way the movie highlights the way sounds and other things jump out is cleverly done.I have one beef ⎯ excuse the pun ⎯ with this movie, but it's a biggie. The movie celebrates autism. Claire Danes as Temple Grandin calls it a gift. At one point in the movie she says she has autism and people applaud at the diagnosis.Frankly, this is a slap in the face of people who have suffered from autism and their families. Many people with autism cannot speak or communicate clearly at all; they are painfully sensitive to everyday experiences, which makes their lives a living nightmare; their parents may never get to cuddle them or hear them say they love them; parents often spend a fortune to go from specialist to specialist, without much improvement; they develop comorbid conditions that further lower quality of life, such as OCD; and so on.It's not, as the movie says, "different but not worse". For the vast majority, it is significantly worse ⎯ not just for them, but for their families, too. And this movie whitewashes autism and makes it look like some kind of super power. Tell that to the parents who still wipe the butts of their adult sons and daughters with autism.

This is a wonderful movie which brings the audience a new enlightenment on the aspects of autism, and on how Temple Grandin has shown light on issues within the cattle industry, and how Temple corrected some of those issues. I learned so much about those topics by watching this movie... some aspects made me grimace, some made me tearful... and part of the movie (unintentionally) reinforces how powerful a mother's support and understanding of their child is on the successful development of the child. Overall, this is a stunning movie and Claire Danes was remarkable. I'm happy to have unintentionally stumbled across this gem, and I recommend it for anyone seeking an interesting glimpse into how autistic people see the world.

It's summer 1966 Arizona. Temple Grandin (Claire Danes) is an autistic woman staying at her aunt Ann (Catherine O'Hara)'s ranch getting ready to go to college. She can't understand people but finds it easy to understand horses and cattle. She comes up with a squeeze box to calm herself. With the help of her loving but overwhelmed mother (Julia Ormond), mentor Dr. Carlock (David Strathairn), and others, she is able to study, publish, and work on animal handling despite facing a disbelieving and alien world.This is a surprisingly powerful movie. Claire Danes delivers a great performance. I have never cared for animal handling more. This is more than a TV movie and this could have turned into a movie of the week. Instead, it's cinematic and emotional. The story is so compelling and she is such a great underdog story. It builds to heart-warming final scenes at the autistic convention.

When I heard that Claire Danes was going to play Temple Grandin I thought, "No, how can this long haired blonde (from Romeo and Juliet) play this gray headed tomboy with a thick accent?" At that time I had no idea who Temple Grandin was, except that she had Autism - like me. I didn't think she'd be that interesting, especially since she was involved with the cattle industry and it seemed boring (or at least it was boring to read on the internet). However, like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Claire Danes knocked my socks off at how well she played Temple Grandin. Not only could I not see Danes under the wig or accent, but the story was just as amazing!The film's basically about Temple's life after high school, and how she gets past being picked on, how she views the world, how she gets to understand cattle, and eventually learns to get along in life. I love the film! If this movie came out before Rain Man, then my parents would probably have understood better what Autism was. I have nothing against Rain Man, but what this movie did differently from Rain Man was that the audience gets to experience what Temple's experiencing and see what she sees. For example, you'll hear the intenseness of sounds that most people don't seem to mind, and you'll see what she's thinking. For example when someone says "It's a miracle" she'll have a flash of Christ walking on the water, and when she puts out two similar looking spoons we are shown the difference. I guess in a way you could say that we become Temple Grandin while watching her. The only two nitpicks I have with this movie is that there is a Rain Man moment in the movie where she just looks at a book and instantly reads the page from her mind. That never happened, nor did her brain work like that. The only other thing that bothered me a bit was that we never see whether or not she gets her cattle dip fixed or not, she just walks off in a huff and complains to the owner, then two scenes later she wants to tour the slaughter house. That felt a bit rushed and made me feel empty, but the ending made up for it. From a personal viewpoint I found this movie very relatable, because the visuals we see of how she thinks is exactly how I think, and some of our behaviors are similar, but not really. This movie captured what it was like to be diagnosed with Autism, and it also showed how much pain the mother had to go through in order to help Temple function in the world and not be locked in an institution. So not only do we end up feeling Temple's pain, but the mother's as well. That is a tough challenge, but the writers did it well. This film not only inspired me to speak at my high school graduation and shamelessly share my struggles with Autism, but also encouraged me to keep strong, because someday I may change the course of history as she did.