Riding the bus with my sister revisited

Unless it was “Throwing My Sister Under the Bus”, it doesn’t need to be made.

Special Needs 2: Electric Boogaloo.

From the 70s to maybe mid 2000s, there were a bunch of TV movies about intectually disabled people. I think this might have been one of last TV movies to cover that subject.

Some memorable TV movies of the past that focused on intellectually disabled people

1970s movie Like Normal People starring Shaun Cassidy and Linda Purl and No Other Love starring Richard Thomas and Julie Kavner. Both movies focused on intellectually disabled couples.

1980s-Winnie starring Meredith Baxter as an intecutally disabled woman who spent most of her life in an institution.

1990s-

One Special Victory-John Larroquete stars as a guy who must coach a Special Olympics basketball team as part of court-ordered community service.

The Yarn Princess starring DL fave Jean Smart as an intellectually disabled woman who must fight to keep custody of her kids after her husband as a mental breakdown.

Bonds of Love starring Kelly McGillis as a woman who falls in love an intellectually disabled man played by Treat Williams whose family objects to the relationship.

About Sarah-Mary Steenburgen stars as a intellectually disabled woman whose daughter played by Kelli Martin aspires to attend medical school.

I remember one with Mickey Rooney entitled “Bill.”

[quote] 1970s movie Like Normal People starring Shaun Cassidy and Linda Purl

"WOGER, I WANNA HAFF A BAY-BEE!"

--every single child at my elementary school the day after this TV movie aired, quoting the most memorable line

There were also feature films about mentally disabled or autistic people, like CHARLY (1969) with Cliff Robertson, RAIN MAN (1988) with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, MOLLY (1999) with Elisabeth Shue, and I AM SAM (2001) with Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Since Robertson and Hoffman won academy Awards for their performances and Penn won an Academy Award nomination for his, and Rooney won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his performance in BILL, it became widely assumed that O'Donnell wanted to play this part in hopes of winning acting prizes (or at least being nominated for them), which had previously been denied to her. Her performance wasn't very good, and this made the award-thirstiness all the more embarrassing. Howard Stern notoriously had a grand old time mocking her performance in RIDING THE BUS WITH MY SISTER after it aired, and I think that pretty much killed O'Donnell's serious acting career, and also most cheap attempts to play severely mentally disabled in hopes of winning prizes among everyone for quite some time.

It’s hard to watch Rosie chew that scenery. And it’s embarrassing.

Riding the Bus with my Other Sister… starring Rosie, Andie, and Juliette Lewis. Rated NC-17.

I can't tell who was worse at acting...Rosie, Andie, or the Bus.

For some reason, I watched fifteen minutes of that. Until I felt ready to puke. If I had Rosie’s money, I’d pay off YouTube or someone to permanently scrub that crap from the web.

I AM NOT RETARDED…..THE TAFFY DAVENPORT STORY…

Rosie played herself. No acting involved.

I don't think movies like this can be made today unless cast with persons with intellectual disabilities in those types of roles. Even a convincing performance like Leo's in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" would be attacked by today's hypersensitive viewing audience.

OP the sequel is Taking an Uber in Ireland with My Autistic Daughter Dakota

R13. And because of that fat-ass mother! No one wants to see THAT!

[quote] I don't think movies like this can be made today unless cast with persons with intellectual disabilities in those types of roles. Even a convincing performance like Leo's in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" would be attacked by today's hypersensitive viewing audience.

Yeah, these movies can't get made today.

In 2016, Emma Stone signed onto play Rosemary Kennedy in biopic probably for Oscar bait reasons. In 2018, she dropped out and Elisabeth Moss signed on to play the part. The movie never went into production. It has probably been quietly shelved because studios know there would be outrage if Moss or some other non-disabled actress played the part.

R14 Isn't her daughter's name Clay?

Dats da suck job

R3- Of ALL of the movies you mentioned and did not mention- for me the best potrayal of a retared person was Heather Matarazzo in 1999 in Our Guys: Outrage In Glen Ridge.

Lauren Ambrose played a retard in Law & Order.

I liked the porn version, "Riding My Sister On the Bus."

[quote] Of ALL of the movies you mentioned and did not mention- for me the best potrayal of a retared person was Heather Matarazzo in 1999 in Our Guys: Outrage In Glen Ridge.

I was in middle school when that movie came out and kids in my class made fun of that movie.

“Ok, Rosie, for this role, just be yourself!”

Most gay people are retarded.

Anjelica should have opted for an Alan Smithee credit on this giant turkey that killed her directing career.

I was molested on a bus.

"I'd Rather Have a Full Bottle in Front of Me... : The Rosemary Kennedy Story"

Shoot me. I don't mind this movie at all.

She was playing herself.

It would have been less ridiculous if there had not been that whole bit about Rosie's character having to buy a new toilet seat. It's just no fun imagining Rosie O'Donnell on the toilet.

Deviled Eggs

I think what made her performance creepy for me is she seemed to revel in it. Her over-the-top enthusiasm as (her weird version of) an in-your-face retarded person felt too much like: This is how I’d like to behave IRL.

I think that's the charm. It's terribly unwoke but reminds me of the 60s and 70s when we kids were free to cosplay the most outrageous things, such as "retards". We were little savages.

I'm retawded!

I love how all these hyper liberals have this type of shit in the histories. Not only does Rosie have this pile, but there's also the segment of The View where she made of fool of herself mocking Chinese people. Fuck Rosie. I especially think it's rich that these people expect to be excused, justified, seen as well-intentioned, or be granted the convenience of having their explanations being taken at face value with no questions asked. People like Rosie are typically eager to drag anyone else, especially if they're ideologically other than themselves, across broken glass without the same compassion or consideration they expect for themselves & in perpetuity. Again, fuck Rosie.

Rosie broke the golden rule.

Riding The Bussy With My Brother… staring Sam Nivola and Patrick Schwarzenegger.

She made that joke about Chinese people in 2006 and the bus movie in 2005. Keep holding power to account, r35. Never forget and never forgive.

[quote] Anjelica should have opted for an Alan Smithee credit on this giant turkey that killed her directing career.

Maybe, she thought it was going to be a successful TV movie version of I Am Sam.

Her character looked and acted just like a lady who worked at our McDonalds in the 80s. Her name was Rosie also.

For Gods sake. Did she EVER get the toilet seat?! I don't want to watch the sequel to find out.

Rosie announced the sequel: "Riding Air Force One With the President". They told Trump to just 'bed himself'.

I think Anjelica made a HUGE mistake not marketing this as a comedy.

I can't believe it aired nearly 20 years ago: May 1, 2005

R42, I had the opposite reaction. I couldn’t believe a stinker like this - with its bizarre depiction of the main character - was made so recently.

I'm waiting for Jacking The E-Bike With My Cousin.

Dats da suck job

She'll never live this one down.

She’s too articulate even when acting “retarded.” No severely autistic person with social deficiencies would be able to speak so articulately with good diction.

Paul Walker played a retired in a two-part highway to heaven episode. His disability seemed limited to him having an occasional stutter and losing his temper. That just playing his mother seemed more like a retard than he did. The big conflict of the story was that they couldn't handle their retarded son so they sent him to a group home and then got offended when he bonded with some paraplegic who wanted to adopt him. But they were adamant their son remain an orphan then have a loving parent who was also disabled.

It was seriously one of the most off the rails betrayals I've ever seen of a family with really f***** up Dynamics and ended with the parents giving Scott up to the quadriplegic without even saying goodbye.

Highway to heaven was such a fucked up show

[quote] Of ALL of the movies you mentioned and did not mention- for me the best potrayal of a retared person was Heather Matarazzo in 1999 in Our Guys: Outrage In Glen Ridge.

R19 Heather was stuck in those roles since "Welcome to the Dollhouse". She was also in an episode of L&O playing the same 'slow' character.

"The Peanut Butter Falcon" is a good film starring a talented Downs actor alongside Shia LaBeouf, Bruce Dern, Thomas Hayden Church. The kid did a good job.

R50 Does that girl ever get a role where she isn’t humiliated or tortured in some form. Last I saw her in Hostel 2, being slashed to death by a rich a nymphomaniac.

Rosie likes the L-G-B-[bold] TEEEEEE [/bold]. She believes a man with a penis is entitled to call himself a "woman".