I checked ​many​ reviews on "Temple Grandin". So far with all this movie has portrayed ​​these reports fall ​way ​short of what this movie truly deserves. Patty Duke played Helen Keller in the TV movie "The Miracle Worker". She received accolades along with Anne Bancroft. It was cast and produced well done for the time. "Temple Grandin" deserves as much if not more. The drawback to HBO is that shows and actors are not recognized ​by​ the Academy for Oscars. Too bad. Not for the award​s,​ but that Hollywood coverage would create more​ ​ interest for more ​people​ to ​take notice understanding the important and recognition of life's​ ​unique individuals who ​normally ​are​ hidden from view.​

This movie is a biography on Temple Grandin's adult life written by, well... Temple Grandin.There are some slow moments, which might put off young kids, but you can't deny that the movie is still pretty good. Though, I think Temple was a little too assertive but aside from that, it ended in a heart-warming way. You just got to really comprehend how Temple's mind works, or else you'll get lost, which isn't different at all, since the movie is a drama and movies need complexity."I'm Temple Grandin. I'm not like other people".The woman who played Temple Grandin (Claire Danes) is a beautiful Temple Grandin and I think she looked quite like how Temple Grandin looked in her younger years. The actress played the part pretty well and it made me want to find out more about her. She probably needs to play in more dramatic movies, she seems to do well on that. She may not have looked like an 18-year-old, but she still needed the part for when Temple's character gets older. She pretty much nailed Temple's autistic personality.7.5

When I heard that Claire Danes was going to play Temple Grandin I thought, "No, how can this long haired blonde (from Romeo and Juliet) play this gray headed tomboy with a thick accent?" At that time I had no idea who Temple Grandin was, except that she had Autism - like me. I didn't think she'd be that interesting, especially since she was involved with the cattle industry and it seemed boring (or at least it was boring to read on the internet). However, like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Claire Danes knocked my socks off at how well she played Temple Grandin. Not only could I not see Danes under the wig or accent, but the story was just as amazing!The film's basically about Temple's life after high school, and how she gets past being picked on, how she views the world, how she gets to understand cattle, and eventually learns to get along in life. I love the film! If this movie came out before Rain Man, then my parents would probably have understood better what Autism was. I have nothing against Rain Man, but what this movie did differently from Rain Man was that the audience gets to experience what Temple's experiencing and see what she sees. For example, you'll hear the intenseness of sounds that most people don't seem to mind, and you'll see what she's thinking. For example when someone says "It's a miracle" she'll have a flash of Christ walking on the water, and when she puts out two similar looking spoons we are shown the difference. I guess in a way you could say that we become Temple Grandin while watching her. The only two nitpicks I have with this movie is that there is a Rain Man moment in the movie where she just looks at a book and instantly reads the page from her mind. That never happened, nor did her brain work like that. The only other thing that bothered me a bit was that we never see whether or not she gets her cattle dip fixed or not, she just walks off in a huff and complains to the owner, then two scenes later she wants to tour the slaughter house. That felt a bit rushed and made me feel empty, but the ending made up for it. From a personal viewpoint I found this movie very relatable, because the visuals we see of how she thinks is exactly how I think, and some of our behaviors are similar, but not really. This movie captured what it was like to be diagnosed with Autism, and it also showed how much pain the mother had to go through in order to help Temple function in the world and not be locked in an institution. So not only do we end up feeling Temple's pain, but the mother's as well. That is a tough challenge, but the writers did it well. This film not only inspired me to speak at my high school graduation and shamelessly share my struggles with Autism, but also encouraged me to keep strong, because someday I may change the course of history as she did.

Temple Grandin is an extraordinary woman who has become a role model for the Autistic and an innovator in animal husbandry. When Temple was four years old, her doctors told her mother that she should be institutionalized; however, her mother disagreed. Before entering college, Temple lived on a cattle ranch where she fell in love with cattle and the business. She struggled with anxiety, and created a squeeze machine to help her fell more comfortable and calm. While working with cattle on the ranch, she learned that cattle have some of these feelings as well, so she did research in animal husbandry to create a handling machine that would ensure the cattle were comfortable going through the chutes. She spent many years researching the equipment and processes involved in treating cattle humanely. Mooing was one thing that Temple researched because she realized that it meant the cows were telling us something. Using this information and her visions, she created a new cattle dipping machine and helped to design slaughter houses that helped to calm and comfort the cattle. Through her work in animal husbandry and successful career path, she has become a spokesperson for Autism. She has shown us that despite the struggles we face in life, we can find ways to succeed if we look hard at ourselves and our needs. When Temple created the squeeze machine she found a way to cope and manage her challenges, she did the same by creating more humane cattle dips and slaughter houses for cattle. This is an educational movie which will show you the challenges and joys that Autistic people face every day along with a closer look at humane animal handling conditions that exist in cattle ranches and slaughter houses across the country. Temple Grandin is an inspiring and inspirational movie that everyone should see.