Going to take this in a slightly different direction...
Mac and Me. No, I'm not claiming this is a good movie. This is a terrible movie. But it has one major redeeming quality: it's treatment of disabilities.
For those that don't remember or haven't seen the movie, the main character is a kid in a wheelchair. To play him, the production team hired an actual kid in a wheelchair. And throughout the movie, it's not the focus for the kid or a defining character element. It's not featured prominently in the trailer or other marketing materials. The other kids never ask about his wheelchair or his medical condition. It's simply accepted that being unable to walk is just a background part of the character. The movie doesn't shy away from the wheelchair at all, including scenes where he's helped in and out of a van; but it's always treated as a completely normal, day-to-day thing. Even during the infamous scene where the kid falls of a cliff, everyone treats the accident basically the same way they would if any kid who couldn't swim fell into a lake.
Writers today seem to be unable to break away from tropes that need to "balance" disabilities with some special skill, or turn everyone with autism into a super-genius, or put some other bizarre focus on what makes disabled characters "different". It's been brought up many times how casting agents have major issues with hiring disabled actors to play disabled roles. Mac and Me manages to handle disabilities better than most of what modern Hollywood is capable of. And that's better than a movie that's 50% ET knockoff and 50% commercials for McDonalds and Coke has any right to be.
