Charles Xavier runs a facility for mutants seeking peace with humans. As a mutant himself, Xavier is wheelchair-bound. He leads a group trying to educate young mutants and stop Magneto, another mutant, from starting a war between mutants and humans. The film explores themes of disability, discrimination, and peaceful coexistence.

1. EXAMPLES OF DISABILITY IN
THE 2000S
Ami & Chloe

2. THE UNDATEABLES
The Undateables is a three-part British Reality TV series about disability and dating. It was shown on Channel 4. The series follows
single disabled people who sign up to a dating agency in order to find a partner.
Episode 1 Air date - 3 April 2012
Richard is an amateur radio enthusiast who has Asperger's syndrome and lives in Twickenham. He will only
date women who live within a five-mile radius of him. His first date in the show is quiet, shy and sensitive.
They meet in pub: she orders food; he does not. She walks out when he eats off her plate. His next date likes
him and wants a second date with him; he refuses because he is not attracted to her.
Luke is a 23 year old stand-up comedian who has Tourette syndrome with vocal tics, including frequent
swearing.
Penny, 23, is three feet three inches tall, is wheelchair-bound and has brittle bones.
Episode 2 Air date - 10 April 2012
Shaine is a 31 year old from Bournemouth is an amateur poet who has a learning disability.
Justin is from the Midlands and is severely disfigured by external tumours caused by neurofibromatosis.
Carolyne, 29, is paralysed from the chest down since a weak blood vessel in her spinal cord burst whilst
sleeping in January 2007. She previously appeared on another Reality TV series Dancing on Wheels (2010).
Episode 3 - Air date - 17 April 2012
The three participants in this episode all have significant facial abnormalities due to their medical conditions.
Sam is a 27 year old man from Kent who has Down syndrome and has never been on a date. He was appeared
as an extra in The Inbetweeners and EastEnders.
Hadyn is a 24 year old man with Crouzon syndrome.
Kali is an extroverted 20 year old woman from south London. She is a singer and has William's syndrome.

3. THE NOTEBOOK (2004) – NEW LINE CINEMA
The Notebook is a 2004 romantic drama film directed
by Nick Cassavetes, based on the romance novel of the
same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film stars Ryan
Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple who
fall in love during the early 1940s. Their story is narrated
from the present day by an elderly man played by James
Garner, telling the tale to a fellow nursing home resident
called Allie played by Gena Rowlands.
James Garner reads a romantic story to a fellow patient.
It is made clear that the elderly woman is in fact
Allie, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease and
cannot remember any of the events of the film so far.
Duke, the man who is reading to her, is her
husband, but Allie cannot recognize him.
Disability portrayed as tragic

4. A BEAUTIFUL MIND - 2001
IMAGINE ENTERTAINMENT
Nash has schizophrenia and that Charles, Marcee
and Parcher exist only in his imagination. Alicia
investigates and finally confronts Nash with the
unopened documents he had delivered to the secret
mailbox. Nash is given a course of insulin shock
therapy and eventually released. Frustrated with the
side-effects of the antipsychotic medication he is
taking, he secretly stops taking it. But this causes a
relapse and he meets Parcher again.
A Beautiful Mind received a limited release on
December 21, 2001, receiving positive reviews. It
was later released in the United States on January
4, 2002. Rotten Tomatoes showed a 78% approval
rating among critics with a movie consensus stating:
"The well-acted A Beautiful Mind is both a moving
love story and a revealing look at mental illness."

5. ORPHAN 2009 WARNER BROS.
Hypopituitarism - Hypopituitarism is the
decreased secretion of one or more of the eight
hormones normally produced by the pituitary gland
at the base of the brain.
The signs and symptoms of hypopituitarism
vary, depending on which hormones are under
secreted and on the underlying cause of the
abnormality. The diagnosis of hypopituitarism is
made by blood tests, but often specific scans and
other investigations are needed to find the
underlying cause, such as tumours of the
pituitary, and the ideal treatment. Most hormones
controlled by the secretions of the pituitary can be
replaced by tablets or injections. Hypopituitarism is
a rare disease, but may be significantly
underdiagnosed in people with previous traumatic
brain injury. The first description of the condition
was made in 1914 by the German physician Dr
Morris Simmonds.

6. X-MEN 2000
Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) runs the facility, and leads a group
of mutants who are trying to seek peace with the human race, educate young
mutants in the responsible use of their powers, and stop Magneto from
starting a war with humanity.
(he’s in a wheelchair)