Search results
Jan 25, 2018 · Jan. 25, 2018 12:15 PM PT. “Please Stand By,” directed by Ben Lewin and adapted by Michael Golamco from his one-act play of the same name, stars Dakota Fanning as Wendy, an autistic Bay Area...
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.
- Ben Lewin
- 2 min
Apr 27, 2018 · 'Please Stand By,' starring Dakota Fanning and based on the stage play by Michael Golamco, is both a love-letter to Star Trek and a compassionate portrayal of an autistic protagonist. So, how...
Aug 6, 2018 · This is a rare film that delivers a happy yet realistic ending for an autistic character. Wendy doesn’t get everything she wants, but she grows as a person – and that’s the really important thing. It isn’t at the loss of her being autistic, either, there is no magical cure or fix for her being neurodivergent because there doesn’t need to be one.
Jan 22, 2018 · If we were to accuse Ben Lewin ‘s “ Please Stand By ” of a cunning it doesn’t otherwise display, we might think this impassioned speech, uttered by the film’s intrepid autistic heroine, might...
Feb 1, 2018 · Shortly after getting the script (written by Michael Golamco, a lifelong Trek fan), director Ben Lewin called a friend whose daughter has autism, a condition that protagonist Wendy, played by...
Jan 25, 2018 · Lewin's new film about a young woman with autism mines disability terrain again. But the writer-director seems less at ease, less able to make the material his own and take the risky...
