Who played the best "mentally handicapped" role?

[Nimrod]

Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest..

No1 and its not even close

 

[Spoken]

What about that one guy with his left foot?
Daniel Day Lewis

He wasn't mentally handicapped

 

[Kal-El]

No Ed Norton in primal fear??

 

[puppybird]

 

[faustian]

Antonio Banderas in Philadelphia

 

[TeTe]

How the fuck are you going to make a thread like this and not include Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man?


@Dragonlordxxxxx can you add a poll?

This

 

[Joe Wong]

Antonio Banderas in Philadelphia

I thought that was Benecio Del Toro?

 

[Seaside]

Tom Hanks is trash. Overrated

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

The "you scratched my CD" guy in the movie with Johnny Knoxville.

 

[Amerikuracana]

De Niro in awakenings?

Yeah.. OP wreaks of weakness.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Adam Sandler in every movie ever

 

[ShoelessRye]

Talia Shire

 

[Roca]

@Clippy

 

[TITS]

Never bothered watching any of these "critically acclaimed" retard movies. Rainman was the only one I watched parts of, and it sucked.

 

[IIIIIIII]

sean penn's was the most believable, but i'll go with either edward norton in that movie where he plays a retard, or hanks in gump.

 

[Kitafuji]

Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade

I second this.

 

[Metusalemi]

Tom Cruise in Rain Man.

 

[moreorless87]

Ryan Gosling in Drive, a retarded tour de force for the truest of imbeciles.

The character coming across as socially awkward to the degree of likely autism was surely intentional?

 

[Turtlejuice]

 

[ultramanhyata]

POTUS.