Being Different
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“The true story of a modern-day Elephant Man… and other human oddities.”
A tribute to the spirit and humanity of people who are physically different from the average: very tall and very large men and women, a bearded woman and her long-time husband, Siamese twins joined at the midsection, and several little people including actor Billy Barty. We meet some at Gibsonton, Florida, where carnival folk winter. They talk about their lives and accomplishments. The camera also goes on the road to visit a grandfather with a distinctive face, a legless mechanic from Kentucky on a second honeymoon in LA, a marathon runner and motivational speaker who has no feet, a karate student with partial limbs, and an armless, down-to-earth mom in Texas.
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Cast
21 people
Christopher Plummer
Self (Narrator) (voice)
Known for
Up
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Billy Barty
Self
Known for
Masters of the Universe
Legend
Harry Rasky
Don Carmody
Also in
Goon
The Boondock Saints
Paul Zaza
Bob Melvin
Self (The Man with Two Faces)
Harold Greenberg
Hideaki Kobayashi
Sandra Elaine Allen
Self (Tallest woman in the world)
Known for
Fellini's Casanova
Robert Kline
Mavis Lyons Smull
Jo-Ann Cantilla
Self
Harry Rasky Director · Paul Zaza Composer Hideaki Kobayashi Cinematographer
Budget $1.5M · United States release October 1, 1981 · Produced in Canada, United States
Box office
Budget
$1,500,000
Production
Trans-Atlantic Enterprises
Production
Astral Bellevue Pathé
Production
TMS Pictures
Production
Canada · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Canada · August 21, 1981
Theatrical
United States · October 1, 1981
Theatrical
Mexico
January 24, 1985
Peru
June 10, 1982
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