Asperger's romance coming to theaters

A movie about a romance between two people with Asperger syndrome made its debut earlier this month at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The official Web site of Mozart and the Whale offers this summary of the plot:

Donald (Josh Hartnett) is a good-natured but hapless taxi driver with a love of birds and a superhuman knack for numbers. Like many AS sufferers, he likes patterns and routines. But when the beautiful but complicated Isabelle (Radha Mitchell) joins the autism support group he leads, his life-and his heart-are turned upside down.

The film is based on the real-life story of Jerry and Mary Newport, and will be coming to a theater near you ... maybe, eventually, sometime. There's no release date and no trailers available yet, but we'll keep an eye out for it. In the meantime, About.com Hollywood Movie guide Rebecca Murray has more on the film, including interviews with its stars, and the film has a fansite that includes a review by Jerry Newport.