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** ''Tropic Thunder'' also gave us a brutal parody in the form of the Film Within a Film, ''Simple Jack'', which Kirk Lazarus attributes the failure due to the fact that character is portrayed as too mentally retarded, citing ''[[I Am Sam]]'' as an example. Specifically, he states that Simple Jack and I Am Sam lack the Inspirational part of the trope, meaning that the performance [[Unfortunate Implications|is just plain uncomfortable to watch]].
* ''[[The Wizard (film)]]'' concerns a young, implicitly Autistic boy who turns out to have a talent for beating arcade games. The [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]] comes along when his older brother decides to use this skill to gain money—and everyone he meets encourages him to do so.
* Speaking of Autism and Fred Savage, there's a little [[Narm|Glurge-heavy]] brain tulip from the mid-80's entitled ''The Boy Who Could Fly'' (reviewed [https://web.archive.org/web/20140111004239/http://madnessmonster.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/boy-who-could-fly-review/ here], and it is about an Autistic boy who is so [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]] that he can... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well...]]
* Even [[Biopic]]s are not spared. The blind pianist Ray Charles comes to mind.
* [[Bollywood]] uses this in their recent movies in order to [[Oscar Bait|win a Filmfare Award]]. Blind Michelle McNally (played by Rani Mukherjee) in 2005's ''Black'' and mentally-disabled Rohit (played by Hrithik Roshan) in 2003's ''Koi...Mil Gaya'' are examples. Naturally, they won.
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