History YMMV / TempleGrandin

* ValuesDissonance: A major theme in the movie. The differences now and in the 1950's/1960's in our understanding of autism is the obvious example. However, another example occurs when she is living with her aunt at the cattle ranch, where [[spoiler: the ranchers constantly mock her desire to work in cattle ranching, because she's a woman. The same thing happens in Arizona as she's studying ranch operations]].

* HarsherInHindsight: The film's lauding of Eustacia Cutler (Temple's mother) as a great autism advocate can be hard to watch given some [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2013/08/05/temple-grandins-mother-links-autism-with-viewing-child-pornography/?sh=223d00c29590 very controversial (and unfounded) comments]] that Cutler made about autism a few years after the film was released.

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* NightmareFuel: Even someone without autism or bipolar disorder or anything can find Temple's panic attacks scary as all hell, especially Temple screaming to her aunt to close the machine on her body while crying and screaming.

* HarsherInHindsight: The film's lauding of Eustacia Cutler as a great autism advocate can be hard to watch given some [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2013/08/05/temple-grandins-mother-links-autism-with-viewing-child-pornography/?sh=223d00c29590 very controversial (and unfounded) comments]] that Cutler made about autism a few years after the film was released.

* HarsherInHindsight: The film's lauding of Eustacia Cutler as a great autism advocate can be hard to watch given some [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2013/08/05/temple-grandins-mother-links-autism-with-viewing-child-pornography/?sh=223d00c29590 very controversial (and unfounded) comments]] that Cutler made about autism in her later years.

* HarsherInHindsight: The film's lauding of Eustacia Cutler as a great autism advocate is this given some [[https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2013/08/05/temple-grandins-mother-links-autism-with-viewing-child-pornography/?sh=223d00c29590 very controversial (and unfounded) comments]] she made about autism in her later years.

* DawsonCasting: Danes plays Temple from high school to college (and beyond—from roughly ages 18 to 31) . They did have a child actor to play Temple when she was a baby, but there's only two scenes shown of that (and even then the girl supposed to be playing 4-year-old Temple looks 8.)
** Julia Ormond, who plays Temple's mother, could also count as this—she looks virtually the same across thirty years, playing her ''from 1951 to 1981''.
* NightmareFuel: Anyone with autism or a similar condition who can relate to this film a bit more will find Temple's panic attacks too close to home.
** Even someone without autism or bipolar disorder or anything can find Temple's panic attacks scary as all hell, especially Temple screaming to her aunt to close the machine on her body while crying and screaming.
* NauseaFuel: [[spoiler: The ranchers covering Temple's front window with bull testicles.]]
** Made worse in that Temple just wipes it off with her hands and sleeves as if it were just mud. She even throws a little!

* TheWoobie: Beautifully averted by Temple, who's never portrayed in an overly sympathetic nor sentimental manner. We see her as a flawed but nonetheless remarkable woman, reacting naturally and realistically to difficult situations, while maintaining a clear sense of pride and a level-headed attitude throughout.

* ValuesDissonance: A major theme in the movie. The differences now and in the 1950's/1960's in our understanding of autism is the obvious example. However, another example occurs when she is living with her aunt at the cattle ranch, where [[spoiler: the ranchers constantly mock her desire to work in cattle ranching, because she's a woman.]]

* TearJerker: Oh, so many.
** Even a few Real Life examples. Why do we never see Temple's father in the film? In Real Life, her father and mother divorced after disagreements on how to handle Temple. We hear him speak once, and that's it.

* ValuesDissonance: A major theme in the movie. The differences now and in the 1950's/1960's in our understanding of autism is the obvious example. However, another example occurs when she is living with her grandmother at the cattle ranch, where [[spoiler: the ranchers constantly mock her desire to work in cattle ranching, because she's a woman.]]

** Even a few Real Life examples. Why do we never see Temple's father in the film? In Real Life, her father and mother divorced after disagreements on how to handle Temple. We hear him speak once, and that's it.

* NightmareFuel: While being a provocative series, it definitely shows a few scenes that are just frightening: Toys that have blades emerging from their bodies, the black monster Kain who seems to do almost anything including the ability to turn into a black dragon demon, an evil Jurai knight decaying rapidly into a skull-faced corpse [[SarcasmMode which you have can fun with being that it was shown everytime Tenchi starts]], the earth being cut in half, Hotsuma turning into a monster, the eldritch-y dream realm (not the one with shards, but a weird black and white Picasso drawing type place) of Yugi, Kagato, Ryoko's bestial form, and Sakuya being absorbed into Yugi against her will....Have fun with that.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Anyone with autism or a similar condition who can relate to this film a bit more will find Temple's panic attacks too close to home.