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Autism: The Musical...out on DVD 		   
Summary Statement:

Watching the families at the center of Autism: The Musical live with the hands life dealt them is like looking at what could have been, and even more upsetting, what could be, as there's no real way of knowing what path a child's development will take. Each of the children the film focuses on arrived at their diagnosis of autism in a different way, and each has a distinctly different background, underlining just how universal the syndrome is.

Of course, the title of the film is Autism: The Musical, so it's not so much a look at autism, but a documentary about The Miracle Project, a Los Angeles theater program that works with special needs children. As one can tell from any number of great documentaries, including the somewhat similar, but more cinema-friendly Yellow Brick Road, while the film may be about a certain subject, in this case the Miracle Project, the real topic of the movie is much more intimate, namely how families cope with difficulty and the effect of a special needs child on his or her parents.
Tags:

documentary
Submission Date:

05/13/2008by: shannonj
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