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    Please Stand By

    PG-132018 · Comedy drama · 1h 33m

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  1. Jan 26, 2018 · Please Stand By: Directed by Ben Lewin. With Dakota Fanning, Alice Eve, Toni Collette, Lexi Aaron. A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500-page manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition at Paramount Pictures.

    • (15K)
    • Comedy, Drama
    • Ben Lewin
    • 2018-01-26
  2. Please Stand By is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Ben Lewin and based on the 2008 short play of the same name by Michael Golamco, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Dakota Fanning, Toni Collette, Alice Eve, River Alexander and Patton Oswalt, and was distributed by Magnolia Pictures. An autistic young woman, determined ...

  3. Dec 5, 2017 · Support Austism research: http://bit.ly/autismresearchPSBLike on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PleaseStandByFilm/Dakota Fanning stars as a woman who esc...

    • 3 min
    • 383.2K
    • Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing
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  5. The world is a confusing place for Wendy, a fiercely independent and brilliant young woman with autism. Wendy longs to leave her group home and return to life with her sister’s family and new baby. She is sure that in order to reunite with her family all she needs to do is convince them of her newfound competence and abilities. As a lover of all things Star Trek, Wendy writes in her free ...

  6. Wendy (Dakota Fanning) - a young woman with autism and a fixation on Star Trek - lives a routine life in a San Francisco group home where she is monitored by the house manager, Scottie (Toni Collette). She spends her time writing a 450-page Star Trek script to enter in Paramount Pictures' writing competition in hopes of winning the $100,000 prize.

  7. Jan 26, 2018 · “Please Stand By” is a sensitive character study whose story beats are a little bit overly familiar, to be frank. Dakota Fanning is excellent as Wendy. The former child star has grown up to proportions that could be described as rangy, and Fanning in particularly uses her arms to convey the character’s social awkwardness, often flailing ...

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  9. Jan 26, 2018 · Please Stand By hits a number of familiar coming-of-age beats, but adds just enough of a Trek -fueled twist to keep things interesting. Wendy sees things differently: she's fiercely independent ...

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    • Comedy, Drama
    • PG-13
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