Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Kris McCarthy Very rarely does an actor/actress vanish into a role and become that person they are portraying. Claire Danes did just that. She stopped being Claire Danes, actress, and became Temple Grandin. A respectful and beautifully done telling of the inspiring life of Temple Grandin. Too bad we all cant be a little like Temple. As she says "nature is cruel but we don't have to be". Temple wasn't the only story here, the story of her mother, aunt and her teacher. The people that loved her, respected her and who really saw something special in a girl everyone thought was a weirdo and freak. They inspired her to be just who she was born to be. Bravo and a standing ovation.

krocheav The production team credits for this bio-pic seem to cross two continents and from the finished result - appears everyone proved to be the best choice for their jobs. This movie earned all the accolades metered out to its many accomplishments. Emmy winning producer Gerson Saines strove for 10 years to bring this difficult story to the screen & deserves full credit.Having been the third director offered the job - UK born Mike Jackson (AKF: "Tuesdays With Morrie" '99 & "Denial" '16) proved to be the right man for the task. Jackson, along with fellow UK director of photography Ivan Strasburg capture all the difficult moments in Grandin's life - as she grapples with Autism in all its debilitating and equally grandiose forms. A tour de force performance by Clair Danes (Les Miserables '98) brings Temples' demanding character vividly to life - she is terrific. A surprise to me was Julia Ormond as Temples mother - hers is a well realized performance adding greatly to the final product. David Strathairn (Goodnight and Goodluck '05) in a pivotal role as a teacher of science - fits his character very well. In fact everyone seems ideally cast. Welsh born writer, Christopher Monger's screenplay brings vitality to dialog while highlighting the inability of certain red- neck males to accept a woman's point of view (especialy an autistic woman) - hats raised to those who had the ability to see what was within! Versatile Emmy winning composer Alex Wurman adds a pensive score to a roller coaster ride of sounds and sights - giving us an acute insight to the variety of challenges associated with this condition. How so many people can fail to see the importance of providing adequate welfare to livestock - that sacrifice their lives for the survival of a massive proportion of the worlds Humanity - is incomprehensible to me. Grandin's quite astounding studies in animal behavior and the benefits they brought to the humane slaughter of our vital meat supplying animals is nothing short of inspirational. They should be implemented via enforced law throughout the world. Don't miss this remarkable experience. It's good to see a HBO product that's not simply reliant on sensationalism - it's also currently being featured on Foxtel

sir-mauri Claire Danes won an Emmy and a Golden Globe in 2010 for her wonderful portrayal. Here's one review: "the best tele-movie of the past several years... I can't praise this movie highly enough. It's not maudlin or sentimental, but it is excitingly inspirational. It scores big emotional points with very small touches, the sound of a heartbeat, a tentative touch, a victorious smile. The acting, writing, directing, production values, every sight and every sound in HBO's Temple Grandin is perfect. What an inspiring movie. I love Claire Danes in Homeland and that's what got me to watch this movie. And she was great in it. Not for a second can you see her being out of character, at some point you actually don't feel like it's a movie / acting but more like a documentary.

azuca-641-953900 This is an excellent film. Too bad it was made for TV and not for Cinema. Claire Dane's performance was great, it could have been her Oscar winning role. I really enjoyed it.I liked how they showed the way things happened in Temple's head, it was really cool, because in that way we get to understand her better and relate to her.There is so much trash on TV and movies these days, it was refreshing to see something interesting and inspiring. This is a movie you can watch with the family.I loved it!