Gee, I must be odd woman out.  I actually told my husband I would go see
Deuce Bigalo: Gigalo.  It didn't really strike me as a PWD basher.  I guess
I'm less sensative.  When I saw the ads my mind didn't focus in the ladies
with disabilities, (out of the six or so women they showed, only two had
disabilites {one with Terrets & one wearing prosthesis).  All the other
"ladies" were able-bodied, if not a bit extreme.  What stuck out in my mind
from the ads was the lead character, the Gigalo.  He is a complete and total
looser and they highlight all his faults.

Although it is wrong to stero-type people, it is done all the time in movies.
 You take a few traits and exaggerate them for dramtic/comic effect.  There
are also more than a handful of movies that show PWD's in a normal light.
Not as tragic pitiful creatures, or sainted souls, just folks doing what all
folks do.  Point in fact, right now there is a movie out I plan to see called
the Bone Doctor.  Denzel Washington plays I believe a quadraplegic.  He is
one of the two main stars/charcaters in the movie.  He is a foresnic
dectective who helps solve the case and I don't think he even leaves his
room.  (Can't be certain haven't seen the flick yet.)  This to my mind shows
how a PWD can be productive member of society.  Then of course there was old,
"Iron-side."  Raymond Burr as a crime solving dective, who just happened to
be in a wheel chair.  You didn't pity Iron-side, only the crooks he was
after.  What about Forrest Gump?  A boy who was most definetly a bit
different, yet had a most wonderous life.  Fictious of course, but the movie
in my opinion didn't shed a bad light on him at all.  In fact the way he
helped Lt. Dan come to grips with his own disability, showing him life was
worth living was wonderful.  Gump does the same thing for his best girl, who
is able-bodied, but emotionally troubled.

You take the good with the bad.  Yes, sometimes movies shed a poor light on
PWD just as they do with African-Americans, or showing the Irish as
wife/beating drunkards, or "folically challenged men" with twenty extra
pounds, glasses and a penchant for computers as "Dilbert" type nerds.
Anyway, I guess what I wanted to say is I take it all with a grain of salt.
As long as the balance doesn't tip too far in the wrong direction I say- if
you want to patronize a bad movie do it, if not- protest buy not plunking
down your $6.50.  - And them thar is my few cents :D  - Denise.