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03 Aug 2009, 5:38 pm

Why hasn't anyone mentioned "Eureka"? Or is that show limited to geeky Aspies who spend their days and nights playing with computers and other technology?

Note: Thanks for the shows mentioned above. I added a few to my Netflix queue (I don't have cable TV, so I either watch online or on DVD).

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03 Aug 2009, 9:53 pm

2 movies...

Oscar and Lucinda (starring Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes)
Snaekers (starring Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Dan Ackroyd, and River Phoenix)

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06 Aug 2011, 10:39 am

There's a 2004 Japanese movie Be With You I particularly like. (Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_with_You_(film)) Not sure if DVD with English subtitles are available everywhere though.

The main story is about a young father and his son living together a year after the death of their wife/mother. On her deathbed, the mother had promised her son that she would return the following summer, during Japan's rainy season.

The side story that caught my attention that the father had kind of burnt himself out when he over enthusiastically trained for his track events in high school. After that, he developed several difficulties. Among these are that sometimes he can't figure out the most efficient order to do things (at work, he has a supportive boss and a nice colleague who helps him out). So on top of playing both father and mother to his son, he has to deal with his own difficulties.

PS: The movie was based on the novel of the same title by Takuji Ichikawa, and there's an English translation.

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06 Aug 2011, 5:27 pm

HauntedKnight wrote:

Dexter? Sure he's a serial killer but I can relate to how he tries to fit in to the 'normal' world.

I actually watched the first three seasons of Dexter the month before I found out that I was an Aspie, and I remember completely identifying with Dexter Morgan's "disconnect" from social interactions. I laughed out loud at a scene from, I think it was the first season, where Dexter had a flashback from when he was a teenager and was completely oblivious to a girl asking him to the high school formal dance.

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07 Aug 2011, 8:19 am

typ3 wrote:

I don't feel like writing a synopsis for these, but here are a couple that I think would be more appreciated by someone on the spectrum:

TV series:
Freaks and Geeks
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Densha Otoko

Movies:
Ben X
Adaptation
Pi

I'll update if I can think of any more.

I loved that movie!

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14 Aug 2011, 4:19 pm

I'd highly recommend Mystery Team...Fans of Big Bang Theory and any shows with AS-like characters will love it.
The three socially inept main characters run a ''detective agency'' which isn't getting any business...until they're assigned to a real case.
One of my favourite scenes:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1sJUmTB6f8[/youtube]

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15 Aug 2011, 12:46 am

I have three recommendations:

Ghost World-Steve Buscemi plays a very Aspy-like character

Idiocracy-how Aspies see the world

The Invention of Lying-what Aspies wish the world was like

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20 Aug 2011, 8:22 pm

Titan A.E.: I swear the main character has AS. I haven't watched this movie in forever so I'm not sure anymore.

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20 Aug 2011, 8:30 pm

Edward Scissorhands. People have written essays comparing Edward's personality and the struggles he faces to people living with AS.

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21 Aug 2011, 12:29 am

A Serious Man. While Asperger's is not the central focus of this movie, the lead character's brother definitely is an Aspie.
Barney Miller. While this was a sitcom about cops, one character who arrived later in the series, named Dietrich, is highly intellectual, and yet has the hardest time socializing, and will often talk over the heads of the other detectives to the point of what he's telling them might seem irrelevant.

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21 Aug 2011, 12:48 am

There's an AS character in IT Crowd and the show is quite absorbing.

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