History of TR_01

MOVIES and Stereotypes

Deafness

• Children of a Lesser God
• “Sara Norman” by Marlee Matlin (William Hurt)
• Mr. Holland’s Opus
• “Cole Holland” by Anthony Natale (Richard Dreyfuss/ Olympia Dukakis)
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil
• Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
• The Replacements
• (Keanu Reeves)
• The Italian Job    
• “Left Ear” by Mos Def
• Dear Frankie

“People” using wheelchairs

• Forest Gump
• “Lieutenant Dan” by Gary Sinese (Tom Hanks)
• Born on the 4^th Of July
• “Ron Kovic” by Tom Cruise
• Skyward
• “Julie Ward” by Suzy Gilstrap (Bette Davis/ Howard Hessemen)
• Whose Life is it Anyway?
• “Ken Harrison” by Richard Dreyfuss
• Coming Home
• “Luke Martin” by Jon Voight (Bruce Dern, Jane Fonda)
• Monkey Shines
• Jason Beghe
• The Other Side of the Mountain
• “Jill Kinmont” by Marilyn Hassett (Beau Bridges)
• The Other Side of the Mountain Part II
• “Jill Kinmont” by Marilyn Hassett (Timothy Bottoms)
• People vs. Larry Flint
• “Larry Flint” by Woody Harrelson
• The Waterdance
• Eric Stoltz (Helen Hunt)
• Wild Wild West
• “Dr. Arliss Loveless” by Kenneth Branagh (Will Smith/ Kevin Kline)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Steve Martin (Michael Caine)
• Almost An Angel
• Elias Koteas (Paul Hogan/ Linda Kozlowski)
• Notting Hill
• (Hugh Grant/ Julia Roberts)
• Heidi
• Marcia Mae Jones (Shirley Temple)
• Remember the Titans
• “Gerry Bertier” by Ryan Hurst (Denzel Washington)
• X Men
• “Professor X” by Patrick Stewart (Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman)
• Dodgeball
• Step Into Liquid
• Jesse Billauer as himself
• An Affair to Remember
• Frida
• “Frida Kahlo” by Salma Hayek
• Million Dollar Baby
• “Maggie Fitzgerald” by Hilary Swank (Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman)
• Greedy
• “Joe McTeague” by Kirk Douglas (Michael J. Fox, Ed Begley)
• Pearl Harbor
• “FDR” by John Voight (Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin)
• Gattica
• Murder Ball
• Documentary film about Wheelchair Rugby

Blindness

• The Miracle Worker
• “Helen Keller” by Patty Duke (Anne Bancroft)
• Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken
• “Sonora Webster” by Gabrielle Anwar (Cliff Robertson)
• Ice Castles
• Lynn Holly Johnson (Robby Benson)
• At First Sight
• “Virgil Adamson” by Val Kilmer (Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis)
• Daredevil
• Ben Affleck
• Seabiscuit
• “Red Pollard” by Toby MacGuire (Jeff Bridges)
• Rocky
• “Rocky Balboa” by Sylvester Stallone (Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith)
• Robin Hood
• “Duncan” by Walter Sparrow (Kevin Costner)
• Wait Until Dark
• “Susy Hendrix” by Audrey Hepburn (Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna)
• Ray
• “Ray Charles” by Jamie Foxx
• The Village
• “Ivy Walker” by Bryce Dallas Howard (Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt)
• Sandlot
• “Mr. Myrtle” by James Earl Jones (Dennis Leary)
• Dumb and Dumber
• The blind kid
• Sneakers
• Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Blind radio operator
• Blind railroad man

MR/DD

• Nell
• “Nell” by Jodie Foster
• I Am Sam
• “Sam” by Sean Penn
• Charlie-Flowers for Algernon
• Forest Gump
• “Forest Gump” by Tom Hanks
• The Summer of Ben Tyler
• Charles Mattocks (James Woods)
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
• Radio
• “Radio” by Cuba Gooding Jr. (Ed Harris)
• The Goonies
• “Sloth” by John Matuszak (Sean Astin)
• The Other Sister
• The Waterboy
• “Bobby Boucher” by Adam Sandler
• Million Dollar Baby
• “Danger” by Jay Baruchel (Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman)
• Of Mice and Men
• “Lenny” by John Malkovick (Gary Sinise)
• Pumpkin
• “Pumpkin Romanov” by Hank Harris (Christina Ricci)
• The Ringer
• Johnny Knoxville

Disfigurements

• Batman
• “Twoface” by Tommy Lee Jones
• “Mr. Freeze” by Arnold Schwarzeneggar
• The Man Without a Face
• “Justin McLeod” by Mel Gibson
• Jane Eyre
• She falls for a man with a disfigured face
• Unforgiven
• “Delilah” by Anna Levine (Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman)
• Fantastic Four
• Rock Man
• The Phantom of the Opera
• “The Phantom” by Gerard Butler
• Pay it Forward
• “Eugene Simonet” by Kevin Spacey (Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt)
• Rigoletto
• “Porter” by Ryan Healey
• Vanilla Sky
• “David Aames” by Tom Cruise
• Mask
• “Rocky Dennis” by Eric Stoltz (Sam Elliot, Cher)
• Ladder 49
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Brain Injury

• Regarding Henry
• “Henry Turner” by Harrison Ford (Annette Bening)
• Legends of the Fall             
• “William Ludlow” by Anthony Hopkins (Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn)
• Just Like Heaven
• “Elizabeth Masterson” by Reese Witherspoon (Mark Ruffalo)
• While You Were Sleeping
• “Peter Callaghan” by Peter Gallagher (Bill Pullman, Sandra Bullock)

Amputation

• Forest Gump
• “Lieutenant Dan” by Gary Sinese
• Moonstruck
• “Ronny Cammareri” by Nicolas Cage (Cher, Olympia Dukakis)
• Treasure Island
• “Long John Silver” by Charlton Heston
• The Terry Fox Story
• “Terry Fox” by Eric Fryer (Robert Duvall)
• Master and Commander
• “Mister Higgins” by Richard McCabe (Russell Crowe)
• Kingpin 
• “Roy Munson” by Woody Harrelson (Randy Quaid, Bill Murray)
• Happy Gilmore
• “Chubbs Peterson” by Carl Weathers (Adam Sandler)
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• (Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates)
• The Fugitive
• “The One-Armed Man” by Andreas Katsulas (Harrison Ford)
• The Search For the Holy Grail
• The Black Knight
• Hook
• “Captain Hook” by Dustin Hoffman (Robin Williams)
• Lonesome Dove
• “Captain Augustus “Gus” McCrae” by Robert Duvall
• Dances With Wolves
• Kevin Costner
• A.I.
• Jami Goldman (Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law)
• The Man From Snowy River
• “Spur” by Kirk Douglas (Tom Burlinson)
• Star Wars
• “Luke Skywalker” by Mark Hamill (Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher)
• “Anakin Skywalker” by Hayden Christensen
• My Dog Skip
• “Jack Morris” by Kevin Bacon (Frankie Muniz)
• Sometimes a Great Notion
• “Henry Stamper” by Henry Fonda (Paul Newman, Lee Remick)
• The Horse Whisperer
• “Grace MacLean” by Scarlett Johansson (Robert Redford)
• Emmanuel’s Gift
• Documentary by Oprah Winfrey
• I Robot
• (Will Smith)

AIDS

• Philadelphia
• “Andrew Beckett” by Tom Hanks
• Coming to America
• Rent

Kid diseases/Behavior problems

• Jack
• Robin Williams
• Lorenzo’s Oil
• “Lorenzo Odone” by Noah Banks (Nick Nolte/ Susan Sarandon)
• Simon Birch
• “Simon Birch” by Ian Michael Smith (Oliver Platt, Ashley Judd)
• Door to Door
• “Bill Porter” by William H. Macy
• Unbreakable
• “Elijah Price” by Samuel L. Jackson
• My Left Foot
• “Christy Brown” by Daniel Day Lewis
• Second Best
• “Jimmy” by Nathan Yapp (William Hurt)
• The Boy Who Could Fly
• “Eric Gibb” by Jay Underwood (Fred Savage, Colleen Dewhurst)
• Newsies
• “Crutchy”
• Gattica
• Mercury Rising
• “Simon Lynch” by Miko Highes (Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin)

Mental Illness

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Jack Nicholson
• A Beautiful Mind
• “John Nash” by Russell Crowe (Ed Harris
• Awakenings
• “Leonard Lowe” by Robert De Niro (Robin Williams)
• The Others
• “Grace Stewart” by Nicole Kidman
• Ammadeus
• “Mozart” by Tom Hulce (F. Murray Abraham)
• As Good as it Gets
• “Melvin Udall” by Jack Nicholson (Helen Hunt)
• Rainman
• “Raymond Babbitt” by Dustin Hoffman (Tom Cruise)
• Dead Poet’s Society
• “Neil Parry” by Robert Sean Leonard (Robin Williams)
• Patch Adams
• (Robin Williams)
• What About Bob?
• “Bob Wiley” by Bill Murray (Richard Dreyfuss)
• Girl, Interrupted
• “Susanna Kaysen” by Winona Ryder (Angelina Jolie)
• Shine
• “David Helfgott” by Geoffrey Rush
• Secret Window
• “John Shooter” by John Turturro (Johnny Depp)
• Bandits
• “Terry Lee Collins” by Billy Bob Thornton (Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett)
• The Aviator
• “Howard Hughes” by Leonardo DiCaprio
• Me, Myself and Irene
• “Officer Charley Baileygates” by Jim Carrey
• Benny and June
• “Joon” by Mary Stuart Masterson (Johnny Depp)
• Silence of the Lambs
• “Hannibal Lecter” by Anthony Hopkins
• The Village
• “Noah Percy” by Adrien Brody (William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver)
• The Sixth Sense
• “Vincent Grey” by Donnie Wahlberg
• The Dream Team
• “Billy Caufield” by Michael Keaton (Christopher Lloyd, Stephen Furst)
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• “Boo Radley” by Robert Duvall (Gregory Peck)
• Good Will Hunting
• “Will Hunting” by Matt Damon (Robin Williams, Ben Affleck)
• K PAX
• “Prot” by Kevin Spacey (Jeff Bridges)
• First Blood/Rambo
• “John Rambo” by Sylvester Stallone (Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna)
• Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
• George Baby Face Nelson

Cancer

• Brian’s Song
• “Brian Piccolo” by James Caan (Billy Dee Williams)
• Love Story
• “Jennifer Cavalleri” by Ali MacGraw (Ryan O’Neal)
• Shadowlands
• “Joy Gresham” by Debra Winger (Anthony Hopkins)
• My Life
• “Bob Jones” by Michael Keaton (Nicole Kidman)
• The Doctor
• “Dr. Jack MacKee” by William Hurt (Elizabeth Perkins)
• Phenomenon
• “George Malley” by John Travolta (Robert Duvall)
• Stepmom
• “Jackie Harrison” by Susan Sarandon (Julia Roberts, Ed Harris)
• A Walk To Remember
• “Jamie Sullivan” by Mandy Moore (Daryl Hannah, Peter Coyote)
• Terms of Endearment
• Erin Brockovich
• (Julia Roberts)
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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• October Sky
• Teacher gets cancer
• Sweet November
• “Sara Deever” by Charlize Theron (Keeanu Reeves)
• Finding Neverland
• “Sylvia Davies” by Kate Winslet
• The Sixth Day
• “Katherine Weir” by Wanda Cannon (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Duvall)
• The Ultimate Gift

Little People

• Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me
• “Mini Me” by Verne Troyer (Mike Myers)
• Foul Play
• Billy Barty (Goldie Hawn/Chevy Chase)
• Willow
• “Willow Ufgood” by Warwick Davis (Val Kilmer)
• High Plains Drifter
• Billy Curtis (Clint Eastwood)
• Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
• “The Little Man” by Ed Gale (George Clooney, John Goodman)
• Willy Wonka
• Oompa Loompas
• The Man with the Golden Gun
• “Nick Nack” by Herve Villechaize (Roger Moore)
• Elf
• Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
• The “little man”
• Time Bandits

Other

• Tuesdays with Morrie
• “Morrie Schwartz” by Jack Lemmon
• Memento
• “Leonard Shelby” by Guy Pearce (Joe Pantoliano)
• Powder
• “Powder” by Sean Patrick Flanery (Mary Steenburgen, Jeff Goldblum)
• Shallow Hal
• (Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow)
• Mr. Deeds
• “Mr. Deeds” by Adam Sandler
• The Little Princess
• Signs
• Asthma
• Sidekicks
• “Barry Gabrewski” Jonathan Brandis (Chuck Norris)
• The Elephant Man
• “John Merrick” by John Hurt (Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft)
• Edward Scissorhands
• “Edward” by Johnny Depp (Winona Ryder, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price)
• 50 First Dates
• “Lucy” by Drew Barrymore (Adam Sandler)
• Ben Hur
• Leprosy
• The Pianist
• Social cleansing
• The Princess Bride
• “Fezzik” by Andre the Giant
• “Count Rugen” the six fingered man by Christopher Guest
• “The Albino” by Mel Smith
• 39 Pounds of Love
• Swing Kids
• The age of Eugenics in Nazi Germany

Elderly Images

• Cocoon
• (Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn)
• Folks
• (Don Ameche, Tom Selleck)
• The Notebook
• (James Garner, Gena Rowlands)
• Home Alone
• “Marley” by Roberts Blossom (Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci)
• The Net
• “Mrs. Bennett” by Diane Baker (Sandra Bullock, Dennis Miller)
• Driving Miss Daisy
• (Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman)
• Gumpy Old Men
• (Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon)
• Grumpier Old men
• (Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon)
• Something’s Gotta Give
• (Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton)
• Second Hand Lions
• (Robert Duvall, Michael Caine)
• On Golden Pond
• “The Thayers” by Henry Fonda & Katherine Hepburn (Jane Fonda)
• The Bucket List
• Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman
• Terminal diagnosis leads to a re-evaluation of what’s important