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09 Nov 2020, 4:59 am

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-11/09/c_139501422.htm

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Another Focus Features' film, "Come Play," also led ticket sales at the sleepy North American box office with 3.15 million U.S. dollars in its opening weekend last week.

"Come Play" moved to second place with 1.73 million dollars from 2,213 locations in its second weekend. The film has grossed 5.66 million dollars in North America through Sunday.

Directed by Jacob Chase and starring Azhy Robertson, Gillian Jacobs and John Gallagher Jr., the PG-13 Halloween offering follows the parents of Oliver, a lonely young boy with autism, as they must fight to save their son from a villainous humanoid creature that preys on the innocence of children.


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09 Nov 2020, 10:40 am

I saw it the other day and didn't much like it. Take a non verbal autistic boy and drop him in the middle of a monster movie, what could go wrong. Generate a melt down. Not to sure I would take an autistic child to watch this movie.


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16 Nov 2020, 9:08 am

So is it a horror movie or an autistic character did well and it isn't that horror?



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16 Nov 2020, 9:18 am

One of the things that commonly comes up on Wrong Planet is the desire of Aspies to have a friend. Many Aspies wish for this from the bottom of their hearts. Now in this movie, there is a young Aspie and there is a hideous monster on two planes of existence and the monster tells the boy "I want to be your friend". And the monster is willing to do anything, kill anyone to make its dream come true and suck the boy into its plane of existence.


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