Girlfriend (2010)

I can't believe it! A film with a disabled character who isn't a maudlin stereotype? Will wonders never cease? "Girlfriend," in the spirit of "Sling Blade" or "Treacle Jr.," creates a unique and engaging protagonist with a intellectual impairment. But this time, the actor who plays the lead (Evan Sneider) is also disabled.

   Afflicted with Down Syndrome, Evan (Sneider) lives with his mother (Amanda Plummer) in a small town that offers few options. Meanwhile Evan is enamored with old high school crush and single mother Candy (Shannon Woodward), whose feelings toward Evan and his challenges are ambiguous.

   Into this scenario swaggers Candy's white trash ex-boyfriend Russ (Jackson Rathbone, venomously unlikable and liberated from the "Twilight" franchise). When Evan's mother dies, his attraction to Candy only intensifies, and all three are caught in triangle that will leave none untouched.