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Mayer was inspired to write the film's script when he heard a radio interview with a man who had Asperger syndrome. Filming took place in New York City in December 2005. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival , where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize , and was released in the United States on July 29, 2009.
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Adapted into the television film A Mile in His Shoes (2011). [175] 2008 Peter Michael "Little Pete" Ellison Gone: Michael Grant USA: Character appears in all six "Season One" books, published between 2008 and 2013. [176] 2009 Marcelo Sandoval Marcelo in the Real World: Francisco X. Stork USA [177] 2009 Geert De Autist en de Postduif: Rodaan Al ...
Robert Koehler of Variety called it "well mounted but overloaded with whimsy". [3] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "The surprising Swedish film Simple Simon performs the neat trick of finding laughs and wisdom about a central character who has Asperger's syndrome, yet does so without trivializing the serious nature of the affliction."
The film follows the lives and friendship of two unlikely pen-pals; Mary, a lonely Australian girl, and Max, a middle-aged American man with Asperger syndrome. The film is inspired by Elliot's relationship with his "pen-friend" in New York whom he has been writing to for over twenty years.
A Mile in His Shoes is a 2011 Canadian made-for-television sports drama film directed by William Dear and starring Luke Schroder, George Canyon and Dean Cain. It was based on the 2008 novel The Legend of Mickey Tussler by Frank Nappi. [1] The setting was changed from Ohio in 1948 in the novel to Bargersville, Indiana in 2002 in the film. [2]
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According to a review in Variety by Todd McCarthy, "Material that easily could have been turned into cringe-inducing TV movie sap has been handled with reasonable intelligence and authenticity" and "This low-budget love story between two emotionally stunted young people with Asperger's Syndrome doesn't have the production sheen or star power of ...