Trivia / Molly (1999)

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $21 million. Box office, $17,650. It's an understandable gross considering its release topped out at 12 theaters. According to Leonard Maltin, it debuted as an in-flight movie.
• Science Marches On: Needless to say, the idea that autism can be "cured" has long been disproven.
• Star-Derailing Role: Elisabeth Shue never fully recovered from the failure of this film. Amidst the generally negative reviews this film received, a unifying point of criticism was that Shue's portrayal of an autistic person was extremely offensive and a misrepresentation of what autism truly is. Although Shue would continue to act, this was the last project where she appeared in the lead role.

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