On this day in movie history - Temple Grandin (2010 movie & books):

Temple Grandin

directed by Mick Jackson,

written by Christopher Monger, Merritt Johnson,

based on the books:

Emergence by Temple Grandin & Margaret Scariano

&

Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin,

released in the United States on February 6, 2010.

Music by Alex Wurman.

Cast: Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara, Stephanie Faracy, Barry Tubb, Melissa Farman, Steve Shearer, Richard Dillard, Jenna Elizabeth Hughes, Michael Crabtree, Charles Baker, David Born, Rutherford Cravens, Matthew Posey, Toby Metcalf, Cyndi Williams, Steve Uzzell, Rick Espaillat, Jim Flowers, Michael D. Conway, William Akey, Kristin McCollum, Penny Reeves, Chris Olson, Joe Nemmers, Gerry Robert Byrne, Aaron Johnson, Jacquejoy Littlefield, Cherami Leigh, John Rawley, Phil Harrington, Cassandra L. Small, Robert Newell, Jessica Looney / Jessica Wilson, Cynthia Huerta, Ken Webster, Carl Savering, Brady Coleman, Butch Anderson, Megan Moser, Chloë Evans, Blair Bomar, Xochitl Romero, Tamara Jolaine, David Blackwell, Shiela Bailey Lucas, Wally Welch, Marissa Joy Davis, Cheryl Wheeler Duncan, Michael Costello, Brian Bentley, Diane Perella, Blake Duncan, Marvin D. Yeaman, Clark Perry, Nolan Bennett, Patrick Bertucci, Kelli Bland, Fred Bothwell, Kelsey Buchanan, D.J. Castillo, Cheryl Cave, Kurt Cole, Richard Dodwell, David L. Dunn, Michelangelo Flores, Mike Gassaway, Brett Hill, Mark Holliway, Christopher Holt, Nicole Holt, David Houston, David Howard, Diane Howard, Helen Myslinski Ingham, Marc Isaacs, Max W. Jenkins, Andrew Kantowski, Floyd Lloyd, Gabriel Luna, Adam Maurer, James Leonardo Mayberry, Rachel McDaniel, Chad McMinn, Jake Messinger, Amy L. Mitchell, Travis Mitchell, Michael Muenchow Rivera, Joe Nelson, Earl Nottingham, Randall 'Red' Payne, Vincent James Prendergast, Dean Reading, Landon Reid, Mike Rembis, Silver Renee, Darren Scharf, Jordan Strassner, Britten Thacker, Leo Trombetta, Hailey Tuck, Debbi Tucker, Allison Wood.

Recommended reading:

Emergence: Labeled Autistic

By Temple Grandin & Margaret Scariano.

Published by Grand Central Publishing.

First published 1986.

ASIN: B00C6OJJLE

Description:

Childhood memories -- Early school days -- New worries -- Forgettable days at junior high -- Boarding school -- The door -- The magical device -- Through the little door -- Graduate school and the glass door barrier -- Through the sliding glass door -- Working -- coping -- surviving -- Autistics and the real world.

A true story that is both uniquely moving and exceptionally inspiring, Emergence is the first-hand account of a courageous autistic woman who beat the odds and cured herself. As a child, Temple Grandin was forced to leave her "normal" school and enroll in a school for autistic children. This searingly honest account captures the isolation and fears suffered by autistics and their families and the quiet strength of one woman who insisted on a miracle.

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

By Temple Grandin.

Foreword by Oliver Sacks.

Expanded and Illustrated edition.

Published by Vintage.

First published 1995.

ISBN-10: 0307275655

ISBN-13: 9780307275653

Description:

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin writes from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person. She tells us how she managed to breach the boundaries of autism to function in the outside world. What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who gracefully bridges the gulf between her condition and our own while shedding light on our common identity.