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Mozart and the Whale
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Ronald Bass
Petter Næss
Casts & Crew
Josh Hartnett
Radha Mitchell
Gary Cole
Sheila Kelley
Erica Leerhsen
John Carroll Lynch
Nate Mooney
Rusty Schwimmer
Robert Wisdom
Allen Evangelista
Christa Campbell
Kristopher Higgins
Also Directed by Petter Næss
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A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
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