Mozart and the Whale (2005)
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Top billed cast
Josh HartnettDonald Morton
Radha MitchellIsabelle Sorenson
Gary ColeWallace
Sheila KelleyJanice
Erica LeerhsenBronwin
John Carroll LynchGregory
Nate MooneyRoger
Rusty SchwimmerGracie
Robert WisdomBlume
Allen EvangelistaSkeets
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