Review of Temple Grandin (2010) by Brandon W — 04 Feb 2017

Temple Grandin is directed by Mick Jackson, and it stars Claire Dines in a biopic about the life of Temple Grandin from when she was first diagnosed with autism, to when she starts having a fascination with cattle ranches and starts researching them.

I come across this in agriculture class where we have to do a movie worksheet on this and fill out the chronological event questions. When the class and I start to watch it, I got interested in this movie so fast that I actually just finished watching this in my house while also filling in the answers, and end up almost done with the questions because Temple Grandin was a very unexpected film that turn out to be an amazing made-for-TV movie from HBO.

This is probably the best performance that I've seen from Claire Dines because she was very convincing when she was acting differently then what I usually see her in, and doesn't get annoying which is very hard for an actor to be acting autistic and not be irritating for some viewers.

You not only learn about Temple Grandin, but also the other characters that are not in it much, and also aspects of farming cattle that I haven't heard about. The writing by Christopher Monger and William Merritt Johnson is well-written that created a lot of stories from Temple's life, and they are all interesting to watch.

There are a lot of good humor in it that's never to the point of making fun of autism itself, and it's interesting to see how her mind works. Temple Grandin is an amazing film that I'm glad that I got interested enough to watch this in my house.