Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend Callie. She leans on Lyle for help, and before long he's Lamaze coach, pinch-hitting father-to-be and in love with Callie.
Acting
Morrow's lived-in physicality, Linney's micro-expressions of guilt-attraction
Direction
Morrow directing himself through tics without exploitation or pity
Writing
Dialogue that lets awkwardness breathe like actual humans
Director
Rob Morrow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Morrow spent months with Tourette's support groups; the script originally had a 'cure' ending he fought to change.
This quietly radical 2001 film predates the neurodivergent romance boom by decades—Rain Man got the Oscars, Maze got fourteen votes.
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