It was a cold and windy day in August 1999, and my wife Phyllis and I and our then 10-year-old daughter Elana were spending time at our house in Sag Harbor.

It was also the second or third day of steady rain, and we despaired of how to keep our daughter occupied. A movie showing at the United Artists Southampton theatre seemed just the solution. Elana wasn’t the easiest child; she was born with a number of serious medical conditions—cerebral palsy and cortical visual impairment. She was and still is highly sensitive to physical stimuli and tends to cry out when stressed. But she seems to tolerate movies and she likes buttered popcorn, so we went.

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