people with mental disabilities

For a tribute to his mother, a dead rock star, fifteen-year-old Grady returns to Seattle, where he faces his mixed feelings for his retarded younger half-brother Louie while pondering his own future.

High school senior Laura Jean is shocked when her boyfriend Scott appears to be involved in the gang-raping of a retarded girl by a group of school jocks.

When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo must go on the run with his older, mentally disabled brother, Innocent, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money.

Mason, a developmentally disabled teen in Louisiana who possesses the power to project images from his mind into others' sight, puts his ability to devastating use when his older brother Gene, a drug-dealing sadist who routinely beats Mason, has Rene, Mason's only true friend, brutally beaten, believing she has witnessed a murder he committed.

Mentally handicapped Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius temporarily.

The members of a genteel Southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.

Skye, a high school junior, tries to find the time for both family obligations and personal interests, which include caring for her brother who has Down Syndrome, dating her first boyfriend, and swimming competitively.

Although Christy considers him a pest, when Eddie Lee, a boy with Down Syndrome, follows her into the woods one day, and shares his understanding of nature with her, she learns a new appreciation for him.

Neil's life turns upside down when his parents take his retarded sister out of an institution and bring her home to stay.

Skye, a high school junior, tries to find the time for both family obligations and personal interests, which include caring for her brother who has Down Syndrome, dating her first boyfriend, and swimming competitively.