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2) Rain man
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father dies and leaves a fortune -- to Raymond, the institutionalized savant brother that Charlie didn't know he had. They set out on a cross-country journey of discovery.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The show is about a young surgeon with autism who is recruited to work at a pediatric unit of a hospital. The hospital is prestigious with many of the toughest cases a surgeon could ever see, but with autism comes clarity that most surgeons will never have. The television series focuses on the relationship between the doctor and patient, and how a man who cannot relate to the people who he tries to help.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Christian Wolff is a math savant who works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division starting to close in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, the body count starts to rise.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Christian Wolff is a math savant who works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division starting to close in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepency involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, the body count starts to rise.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today--guided by its owner. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn new languages from scratch, in a week. He has savant syndrome, a rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the Rain Man: he is virtually unique among autistic people...
Author
Series
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Christopher stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An unidentified body is discovered in New York City, with numbers and symbols written in blood near the corpse. Ahn Gilmo, a North Korean national who interprets the world through numbers, formulas, and mathematical theories, is arrested on the spot. Previously incarcerated in a Korean political prison because his father was a secret Christian, Gilmo must now use his peculiar gifts to navigate the criminal world as he searches for the only family...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital surgical unit. Alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Shaun's proposed treatment for a homeless patient puts him and Jared in Andrews' crosshairs. Meanwhile, Claire tries to overcome Melendez' reluctance to do a risky heart operation while Glassman must overcome his personal feelings about his oncologist, Dr. Marina Blaize, and face a difficult decision about his health.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The show is about a young surgeon with autism who is recruited to work at a pediatric unit of a hospital. The hospital is known for treating many of the toughest cases a surgeon could ever see, but with autism comes clarity that most surgeons will never have. The television series focuses on the relationship between the doctor and patient, and how a man who cannot relate to the people who he tries to help.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one question Penny doesn't know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny's 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday...
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