Dakota Fanning plays a woman with autism who writes a fan-fiction ‘Star Trek’ screenplay in 'Please Stand By,' a comic drama directed by Ben Lewin ('The Sessions'). By Sheri Linden Senior Copy ...

In the feature film Please Stand By, Dakota Fanning portrays Wendy, a young woman with autism. Ms. Fanning – along with the director, writer and producer of the film – participated in a panel ...

Helen Hunt and Dakota Fanning have signed on to play the leads in “Please Stand By,” the next drama from “Sessions” director Ben Lewin. Fanning (“The Twilight Saga”) is playing a brilliant young woman ...

Over the past couple of decades, autism has undergone a sea change in public perception. Most people now recognize that it’s a spectrum of disorders, not a single rigid condition, and are aware that ...

"Please Stand By" — the new movie that shows a young woman running away from home to take part in a "Star Trek" script contest — was conceived as a sort of love letter to the 51-year-old Trek ...

In Ben Lewin’s twee coming-of-age comic drama Please Stand By, a young woman on the spectrum becomes obsessed with entering her Star Trek spec script into a contest. Dakota Fanning, who plays young ...

“Please Stand By,” directed by Ben Lewin and adapted by Michael Golamco from his one-act play of the same name, stars Dakota Fanning as Wendy, an autistic Bay Area woman on an epic journey to deliver ...

Despite an offbeat twist about Star Trek' fandom and autism, this film timidly goes where many indies have been before. “Do you know how hard it is to write something? All the thinking and planning ...

"Please Stand By" — the new movie that shows a young woman running away from home to take part in a "Star Trek" script contest — was conceived as a sort of love letter to the 51-year-old Trek ...