The Black Balloon

This is an Australian film about a military family with two teen age boys, one with autism. They move to a new neighborhood and are confronted with all the prejudice and misunderstanding one might expect from neighbors and school mates. I suspect that the Autism Council of Australia may have had a hand in the production of this film. I’m sure it will be shown at schools and at Autism awareness meetings everywhere. This film either leaves you depressed or encouraged depending on your mood and your willingness to see, graphically, some of the difficulties encountered by having an autistic teenage son in an otherwise normal middleclass family.