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Summary
A Newark, New Jersey high school teacher struggles to prepare her students with autism to survive in the brutal world that awaits them once they graduate.
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- Friends night
- Teens
- Background watch
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+24)
Critics 100Audiences 76GoodWatch 88
Tomatometer100%
Metascore100
Audience score92%
IMDb7.4
User score6.2
Running time
1 h 25 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −11 min on the typical 96
typical 9685Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 139 countries
+129Released
2013
May 4, 2013
13 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Samantha Buck Director
Production · 1
- Danielle DiGiacomo Producer
Camera · 1
- Nara Garber Director of Photography, Cinematography
Editing · 2
- Matt Posorske Editor
- Francisco Bello Editor
Sound · 1
- Brian Satz Music
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