Temple Grandin (2010) on Netflix
Temple Grandin is autistic and does not speak until age four. At her aunt and uncle's ranch a squeeze chute calms the cattle, and her teacher Dr. Carlock urges her toward science.
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Temple Grandin is diagnosed with autism as a small child. The medical opinion of the time holds that autism is a form of schizophrenia caused by insufficient maternal affection, and doctors recommend that she be placed in an institution. Her mother refuses and hires therapists to help her daughter learn social interaction. At fifteen, Temple visits her aunt and uncle's ranch, where she watches cows put into a squeeze chute to calm them, and she uses the chute herself during an anxiety attack. Her teacher Dr. Carlock urges her to pursue science.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Temple Grandin (2010)
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- Danes spent about six hours with Grandin in Danes' apartment, ending with a hug from Grandin - "For her, that's not easy", Danes observed - which Danes was glad to take as validation that Grandin approved of her for the role.
- Gerson Saines was a vice-president at the William Morris Agency when her two-year-old son was diagnosed with autism, and learned of Grandin soon after, when her mother mentioned seeing Grandin's book Thinking in Pictures and her grandmother sent her an Oliver Sacks article about her.
- Grandin pushed the production to get the cattle right: "I thought, we can't have a silly thing like that City Slickers movie, where they had Holstein cattle out there. If you know anything about cattle, you'd know that was stupid."
- Variety reported in 2002 that director David O. Russell was attached to adapt Grandin's memoirs from a W. Merritt Johnson screenplay; Russell later dropped out and was replaced by Moises Kaufman, who also left.
- The production was noted for filming in Texas at a time when television and film work had grown scarce there, while state legislators sought bigger incentives to draw crews back.
