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Temple Grandin An inspirational, captivating, Emmy-winning, well-acted, factually based, 2010 HBO film that follows a troubled, difficult life of bullied, shunned, brilliant, autistic student (Claire Danes) from her days growing up with her headstrong, tenacious mother (Julia Ormand) and supportive aunt (Catherine O'Hara) during the 1960s, attending a specialized boarding school at which an understanding and compassionate teacher (David Strathairn) challenges and empowers her, graduating from an eastern college and giving the commencement address as valedictorian, and through studying animal behavior on her aunt's farm during the summer months and observing cattle behavior on Arizona feedlots and publishing articles regarding her research, she eventually designed a more humane and efficient system to kill cattle at slaughterhouses that is currently in use at more than 50% of slaughterhouses in North America today.   Redhead: Year: 2010 Rating:  NR View Temple Grandin on the Internet Movie Database