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Image made with Canva.com  Author’s Note: Viewership of this movie should be to thoes of the adult age, because of mature language and content of the film itself.  COME AS YOU ARE , starring Academy Award nominated Gabourey Sidibe (EMPIRE, PRECIOUS), Grant Rosenmeyer ( THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS ), Ravi Patel ( MEET THE PATELS ), Hayden Szeto ( THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN ) & Janeane Garofalo ( WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER ).  In COME AS YOU ARE, three young men with disabilities (Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden Szeto, and Ravi Patel ) flee their overbearing parents on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs. Sam (Gabourey Sidibe), a traveling nurse, drives the three guys across the border as they go on this trip to lose their virginity and embrace their independence.  The film is based on the Belgian film HASTA LA VISTA, inspired by the life of Asta Philpot, who also appears in the film. Come As You Are is a coming of age movie a...

image made with Canva.com  The Book Review “Such a pretty girl: A story of struggle, empowerment, and disability pride” by Nadina La Spina Publishing Company: New Village Press Publicist: Lorna Gargano This is the real-life story of a little’s girl journey that starts with one goal in mind: being “cured” of her polio, to later finding acceptance with herself as a woman who has a disability and eventually finding her passion for disability rights and activism. “Such a pretty girl,” is the story of a young Sicilian girl-turned activist by the name of Nadina La Spina who dealt with always hearing pity and being told by many to send her suffering to the Lord. She was often told that because she was disabled she could never live a full life or, “Che Peccato” (what a shame). That was what she heard growing up in Sicily where they believed a woman’s destiny was to get married and have children. After unsuccessfully seeing most of the doctors in Scilly in 1960 her fa...

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