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Movie Review-Special Ed Course
The Other Sister
SPED 214

Introduction:
The movie “The Other Sister” is a romantic comedy released by Touchstone Pictures in 1999 by director Garry Marshall about Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis) a 22 year old woman who is developmentally delayed and her struggles and accomplishments she has showing her family her father Dr. Radley Tate (Tom Skerritt), her mother Elizabeth Tate (Diane Keaton), and her two sisters Caroline (Poppy Montgomery) and Heather Tate (Sarah Paulson) that she is capable of making her own decision in her life. After growing up in a “special school for people like her” (Special Education Schools pg. 70) she has been sent home to reconnect with a family who does not know how to relate to her condition or see her for the person she is inside. Her biggest struggles are with her mother who has deep seeded guilt for being the one who chose to send her away and cannot seem to except she is different and always will be. In this paper I will try touch on her journey through the movie and how she finds someone who can love her for who she is Daniel McMann (Giovanni Ribisi).
Carla and Her Family
The movie starts with her father going to get Carla from the “special school” she spent most of her life. When Carla was younger her parents did not understand her and could not deal with her outbursts, yelling, slamming doors, and general aggression. They received a letter from her school that they couldn’t deal with her and would not allow her to return. (That letter would be a violation of FAPE of 1975 PL 94-142. pg. 14) When other children taunted Carla she didn’t have the skills to cope with them so she becomes angry and aggressive with another child to the point she pushed him down some stairs because they wouldn’t stop laughing and mocking her. Carla’s mother decided to send her away to a place where there were others “like her” to protect her other daughters and in her mind protect Carla. She let her daughter’s disability define who she is



References: * Casting information from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123209/fullcredits * Page quotes: Introduction to Special Education Making a Difference, seventh ed. Smith, D., Tyler, N.

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