By Michaela Gordoni
Dan Roebuck shared all about his new movie, LEARNING YOU, that comes out on Friday, Jan. 16.
Inspired by a true story, LEARNING YOU is about an architect’s road trip with his autistic son. Their journey inspires a billionaire developer whose son is also on the spectrum, per IMDB.
Roebuck helped produce the movie and plays Reggie Sinclair, the billionaire.
“There are so many people who have children who do have this affliction, and it’s heartbreaking, heartbreaking,” Roebuck told Movieguide®. “More so to think about what’s going to happen when they’re 40, you know? Because they have their parents always around to protect them as best they can generally, which is what our movie is about.”
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“It’s so easy when you’re in a restaurant or on an airplane or, you know, at lows when a child with this problem acts up; it’s so easy to judge everything, right, which is the opposite of what Christ wants us to do,” he continued. “I can’t say how many times he made that clear, don’t judge other people. You know, he reiterated that constantly.”
One of his co-stars, WWE star Al Snow, appreciates how true the movie is to real-life experiences.
“The main character, John Wells, and his son and the relationship and the outbursts and things that occur just naturally in these types of situations, they get pretty emotional, pretty intense,” Snow told Movieguide®. “And, you know, you need to realize that that is part of the story, but that is part of the experience that a lot of people deal with on a day-to-day basis.”
Roebuck’s co-star, John Wells, plays the architect. Both in the movie and in real life, he has a son who is on the autism spectrum.
“Finding out that John Wells has a son so afflicted…He he was bringing forth an entire world that he had been living in,” Roebuck noted.
“This movie is a movie that will surprise people,” he explained. “You’re never going to know what’s coming. The man who wrote it also had an autistic son… I think it’s just so great.”
Other stars in the movie are Caleb Milby, Stacy Haiduk, Seth Phrampus, Read Choi and Cameron Arnett.
Roebuck added, “And you know what else I love about it? It’s real. It seems like at some point, like you’re just watching, they put a camera on a real guy who’s having a real experience.”
You can find a theater playing LEARNING YOU through the movie’s website.
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