The world is a confusing place for Wendy Welcott, a fiercely independent and brilliant young woman with autism. Wendy longs to leave her group home and return to living with her sister's family and new baby girl. She is sure that in order to reunite with her family, all she needs to do is convince them of her newfound competence and abilities. As a lover of all things Star Trek, Wendy writes in her free time; so when she hears about a Star Trek screenplay competition, she sei... (Full plot summary below)
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The world is a confusing place for Wendy Welcott, a fiercely independent and brilliant young woman with autism. Wendy longs to leave her group home and return to living with her sister's family and new baby girl. She is sure that in order to reunite with her family, all she needs to do is convince them of her newfound competence and abilities. As a lover of all things Star Trek, Wendy writes in her free time; so when she hears about a Star Trek screenplay competition, she seizes the opportunity to submit her 500-page script and prove her worth. However, her only problem: if she doesn't hand in her 500-page script to Paramount Pictures in person, she will miss the deadline. Wendy sneaks out of her group home and travels hundreds of miles outside her protective boundaries and refuses to allow anything to stop her from achieving her goals.
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| StarburstJ.R. SouthallFrom the start, Ben Lewin's film proves its worth with its quietly attentive and mostly authentic depiction of Wendy's condition, save for a few concessions it necessarily makes to its audience and its ninety-minute running time. |
| Film Journal InternationalMaria GarciaDakota Fanning is outstanding in the starring role. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordRoad movies are pretty common but "Please Stand By" makes the genre its own as we root for Wendy ever y step of her way. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...slight but winning, just like Wendy's little dog Pete. |
| ObserverRex ReedIt’s a long haul, but Please Stand By, meticulously directed by Ben Lewin (The Sessions), chronicles the pitfalls, terrors and triumphs of the trip with heart-wrenching realism. |
| We Live EntertainmentKit BowenPlease Stand By gives Dakota Fanning a much-deserved time to shine like we know she can. |
| Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenLewin can't quite transcend the inconsistencies and dwindling credibility of the concept or give the material a driving pulse, even with its race-to-the-deadline setup. |
| NPRElla TaylorPlease Stand By deflates into a perfectly watchable but soft parable in which a can-do young American loses a battle, only to win the war of growing up, while the adults in the room confront their own unhelpful rigidities. |
| New York Magazine/VultureDavid EdelsteinPlease Stand By is thoughtful in how it dramatizes the consequences of autism. The movie is a little stiff, though. |
| Cine PremiereMabel SalinasDakota Fanning stars in a coming-of-age whose greatest freshness lies in the tribute to Star Trek and Spock as instruments to talk about autism. [Full Review in Spanish] |
