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| Learning Difficulties (Mental Retardation): Minor Films no photo.
| Title | Last Picture Show, The (1971) | | Alternative/Original Title | | | Disability | Learning difficulty | | Country | USA | | Length | 118 | | Genre | Drama | | Rating | 5 | | Director | Peter Bogdanovich
| | Cast | Jeff Bridges Timothy Bottoms Cybil Shepherd Sam Bottoms
| | Notes | B/W. Though a great part of this film is not dealing with disability it is a fine example of a disabled person being shown as part of a small, tight community. Set in a 1950s small Texas town it is a study of a group of friends growing up. Sam Bottoms plays a boy with learning difficulties who is intimidated by many until Timothy Bottoms takes him under his wing. At the end the boy is killed by a car as he runs across the road to greet his friend. A superb evocation of a world which is lost.
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