The Laughing Shoes (2014)
Life with Down-Syndrome
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 43分
演出 : Christine Wechselberger
シノプシス
1940年代、アラバマ州で生まれたフォレスト・ガンプは、知能指数こそ人に劣るが、母親にたっぷりの愛情を注がれて育ち、優しいハートと走る能力は誰にも負けない男性に成長していく。そんなフォレストは、ただひとり彼に理解を示してくれた幼なじみの女性ジェニーの愛を信じる一方、ベトナムの戦場に出征するなど、1950年代に始まるアメリカの歴史の大きな動きの中で、図らずも波瀾万丈の半生を送ることになる。
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
自由奔放な青年が重度の自閉症の兄と出会って心を開き、忘れていた愛情を取り戻して行く過程を描いた心暖まる感動のロード・ムービー。高級外車のディーラーをしているチャーリーの元に自分を勘当した父の訃報が届く。遺産目当てに故郷に戻った彼だったが遺産の300万ドルは見た事もない自閉症の兄、レイモンドの手に渡る事を聞かされる。なんとか金を物にしようとチャーリーは施設にいるレイモンドを誘拐まがいに連れ出し、ロスに戻ろうとするのだったが……。
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
趣味の絵と本と想像の中で、自分の世界を生きるジョゼ。幼いころから車椅子の彼女は、ある日、危うく坂道で転げ落ちそうになったところを、大学生の恒夫に助けられる。 海洋生物学を専攻する恒夫は、メキシコにしか生息しない幻の魚の群れをいつかその目で見るという夢を追いかけながら、バイトに明け暮れる勤労学生。 そんな恒夫にジョゼとふたりで暮らす祖母・チヅは、あるバイトを持ち掛ける。それはジョゼの注文を聞いて、彼女の相手をすること。 しかしひねくれていて口が悪いジョゼは恒夫に辛辣に当たり、恒夫もジョゼに我慢することなく真っすぐにぶつかっていく。そんな中で見え隠れするそれぞれの心の内と、縮まっていくふたりの心の距離。その触れ合いの中で、ジョゼは意を決して夢見ていた外の世界へ恒夫と共に飛び出すことを決めるが……。
A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.
In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the spotlight. When a fading Hollywood actress, Cher, decides to get her show "Honey and the Beaze" cancelled, she hires Walt -- and his brotherly appendage -- as her costars. But their addition surprisingly achieves the opposite.
貧しいながらも、懸命に生きてきた母子。しかしある日、二人の住む静かな街で凄惨な殺人事件が起きてしまう。容疑者として息子の身柄が拘束された。警察も弁護人も頼りにならず、ついに母が立ち上がる……。キム・ヘジャ、ウォンビン共演の感動サスペンス。
大学生の恒夫は、ある朝バイト先の麻雀店から帰る途中、老婆の手を離れて坂道を転げ落ちてくる乳母車と遭遇。その乳母車の中にはひとりの少女が身を隠していた。足が不自由で歩けない彼女は、ときどき祖母に乳母車を押してもらっては気ままな散歩を楽しんでいたのだった。恒夫は、愛読書であるフランソワーズ・サガンの小説のヒロインの名から、自分のことをジョゼと称する風変わりな彼女に、少しずつ心惹かれるようになる。
三村新之丞は東北の小藩に仕える三十石の下級武士。剣術の覚えもあり、藩校でも秀才と言われながら、現在の勤めは毒味役。張り合いのない役目に不満を持ちながらも、美しく気立てのいい妻・加代とつましくも笑いの絶えない平和な日々を送っていた。ところが、そんな平穏な生活が一変してしまう。貝の毒にあたった新之丞が、一命は取り留めたものの失明してしまったのだ。絶望し、自ら命を絶とうとする新之丞を、加代は懸命に思い留まらせるのだった。しかし、武士としての勤めを果たせなくなった以上、藩の沙汰次第では生きていくことも叶わない。そこで加代は、嫁入り前からの顔見知りだった上級武士の島田藤弥に相談を持ちかけるのだったが…。
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
リウマチを患いながらも絵画に喜びを感じる女性が、孤児院育ちの不器用な夫の深い愛に支えられ、やがてカナダでもっとも有名な画家となる……。実話をサリー・ホーキンスとイーサン・ホーク共演で映画化した感動作。
Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Sclerosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 running. And he was told that he could not make 100 meters.
A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, the girl of his dreams.
Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of happiness. Antoine, is a successful DJ in present day Montreal who seems to have it all: a thriving career, two beautiful daughters, partner Rose, with whom he is passionately in love. However, nothing is perfect and Antoine’s ex-wife Carole remains devastated by their recent separation.
1979年のカリフォルニア。ある夜、同性愛者であることを隠して検事局で働くポールは、シンガーを夢見ながらもダンサーとして働くルディと出会う。2人はすぐに惹かれ合い恋に落ちる。ルディが暮らすアパートの隣にはダウン症の少年・マルコが住んでいるが、彼の母親が薬物所持で逮捕されたことで、マルコは強制的に施設に連れていかれてしまう。ルディとポールは“いとこ”と関係を偽り、マルコとの生活を始める。
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.