Mozart and the Whale

Sep 10, 2005

1h 32m

★ 6.1

Overview

A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Millennium Media

Mozart and the Whale Trailers

Cast

Donald Morton

Josh Hartnett

Isabelle Sorenson

Radha Mitchell

Wallace

Gary Cole

Janice

Sheila Kelley

Bronwin

Erica Leerhsen

Gregory

John Carroll Lynch

Roger

Nate Mooney

Gracie

Rusty Schwimmer

Blume

Robert Wisdom

Skeets

Allen Evangelista

Therapist

Christa Campbell

Brain - Donald's Brother

Kristopher Higgins

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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