Only in the Way

Lux

Late Bloomer is the story of Sumida-san, a severely handicapped man, and his downward spiral into hell.

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.

While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After overcoming her initial reluctance to open up to the writer, Emi talks about her busted leg and her childhood friendship with the chronically ill Yuka.

Tired of being treated like a child by everyone due to his physical limitations, Jonathan, 29, embarks on a wild and heartfelt trip to Panama with unlikely companions to confront the doctor who caused his disability.

Fantasy A, autistic Seattle rapper, suffers trials and tribulations from total creeps as he attempts to become a superstar. Along the way he also finds a mattress to sleep on, after being kicked out of his group home.

When her partially blind friend Siti goes missing, Laura, who's hard of hearing, rushes to the police with a bizarre tale. Played by actors with disabilities.

During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".

Nithya, an IT professional, gets abducted and locked up inside a room by masked strangers. A random call connects her to Bala Subramaniam, a youngster with intellectual disability. Can Bala with his low level of understanding save Nithya?

A nonverbal autistic teenager develops a quiet crush on the girl next door, expressing her feelings through drawn portraits.

A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.

A short 1982 film that offers a thought-provoking look at stereotypes about physical handicaps as seen in the story of a teenager with cerebral palsy who decides to try out for cheerleader.

Darol Kubacz is unstoppable. A U.S. Army veteran without the use of his legs, this leader and Freedom For Life Non-Profit Founder is determined to be the first disabled human to summit Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, without being pushed, pulled or carried.

A quiet coming-of-age story about friendship, uncertainty, and the moments that change everything. As three young men navigate love, loss, and the weight of growing up, their bond is tested by a single event that forces them to confront who they are—and who they’re becoming.

A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear.

When Sam splits up with her partner, she is forced to move back into her childhood home with her mother and neurodivergent brother. When depression sinks in, her brother Emmett gets in her face trying to cheer her up and in doing so makes everything worse. But when Emmett is confronted with a situation at a baseball game where he is called a chicken, Sam rises to the challenge to come to his aid and is reminded of what is truly important.

In the first story a man with cerebral palsy saves a nurse from suicide and they begin a relationship. In the second story a handicapped woman races round the city to gather money to pay for the operation of a man whose injuries she feels responsible for.

Tres Mans

In a funk, Kristen, a physically disabled New York woman, walks dogs for a living but dreams of being a writer and as her life unravels, she must make a choice to fall apart or straighten up.

Three emotionally damaged adults, drawn together by their life-threatening sensitivity to digital devices, retreat to an isolated cabin to start over without screens. But escaping modern technology proves more difficult than expected.