Even though the popularity and profitability of family-oriented films have always been strong, the variety offered is woefully thin. Superhero action, animation, and musicals comprise the vanilla-chocolate-strawberry choices, yet they almost always make for hefty returns because those are the only things offered. It isn’t often when something else that doesn’t fit neatly into any…

A gifted 11-year-old, who has overcome the limitations of disability to chase his dream of becoming a pediatric neurologist, has earned a spot to study biochemistry at Arizona State University. Jimi Hernandez, who goes by “Monty,” has high-functioning autism, ADHD, a connective tissue disorder, and ascending aortic aneurism, a potentially life-threatening heart defect that requires…