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Temple Grandin is a 2010 American biographical drama television film directed by Mick Jackson and starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, an autistic woman whose innovations revolutionized practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughterhouses. It is based on Grandin's memoirs Emergence and Thinking in Pictures.
Temple's father was Richard McCurdy Grandin, [6] [7] a real estate agent and heir to the largest corporate wheat farm business in the United States at the time, Grandin Farms. [8] Grandin's parents divorced when she was 15, and her mother eventually went on to marry Ben Cutler, a New York saxophonist, [ 9 ] in 1965, when Grandin was 18 years old.
Visual thinking has been argued by Temple Grandin to be an origin for delayed speech in people with autism. [23] It has been suggested that visual thinking has some necessary connection with autism. [ citation needed ] Functional imaging studies on people with autism have supported the hypothesis that they have a cognitive style that favors the ...
"A Real Pain" hit select theaters on Nov. 1 and select theaters everywhere on Nov. 15. The film is still available in theaters everywhere according to the film's official Instagram account.
Temple Grandin is a specialist in animal behavior, has received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, [1] and is a professor at Colorado State University. [2] Grandin works as a consultant to the American beef industry, designing slaughterhouse equipment that has been extensively adopted within the United States agricultural industry, even being employed by McDonald's. [3]
Julia Karin Ormond (born 4 January 1965) [1] is an English film and television actress. She rose to prominence by appearing in The Baby of Mâcon (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), First Knight (1995), Sabrina (1995), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), and The Barber of Siberia (1998).
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress. Prolific in film and television since her teens, she is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
Speciesism: The Movie is a 2013 documentary film by American director Mark Devries. It explores the concept and practice of speciesism , the assignment of value to beings on the basis of species membership.