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Is there a good movie about someone with a deformity or a physical flaw such as dwarfism? Longing to lead a normal life?


The movie shouldn't be a comedy movie. I am looking for something more meaningful.
Movie that depicts a boy or a man longing to live a normal life. Find love, get married etc but can not do so because of his situation?

Also, movies about cancer patient do not fit this description. Because it is a terminal disease and not something that you have to live with for your entire life as a social outcast. Even with Aids, some uneducated people might avoid you only when they find out that you have Aids.

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For Your Height Only (1981)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OyiN9EIG11Y

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Mozart and the Whale, a romantic comedy about two people with Asperger
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392465/

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I know it was already mentioned but just wanted to 're-recommend' The Elephant Man, it's probably the best movie fitting the description you are looking for.

Second movie to come to mind was: Jack (1996) starring Robin Williams, he's a child who ages really quick, a lot of people don't like this movie, one of the criticisms is that the real disease was exaggerated for the movie... I believe there are some scenes where he goes out on a date with a teacher because he can't go out with girls his age because he looks like 50 even though he's like 10 and the girls in his class obviously look like regular 10 year olds... Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

What about the first movie that Mel Gibson directed: The Man Without A Face (1993).

Wonder (2017)

I guess multiple versions of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

No dwarfism movies come to mind.

If I think of others I will come back.

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The other side of the mountain barn 1997

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