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Learning Difficulties (Mental Retardation): Major Films  
TitleDominick and Eugene (1988)
Alternative/Original TitleNicky and Gino
DisabilityLearning difficulty
CountryUSA
Length111
GenreDrama
Rating4
DirectorRobert M. Young
CastTom Hulce Ray Liotta Jamie Lee Curtis Robert Levine Todd Graff Bill Cobbs
NotesTom Hulce (you may remember him as Mozart) plays man with learning difficulties who is looked after by his brother (a doctor). Except that Hulce works, as a garbage collector, and supports his brother through medical school. This is a film not so much about actions in the broad confrontational sense but attitudes. Such films can only succeed by the quality of the acting and direction. This film is sentimental, passionate, occasionally melodramatic and achieves a depth of understanding in the lives of both Hulce and his brother though you might feel the points it is making are pressed in your face. Better to have tried even if not wholly successful.

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