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Mask is a 1985 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Cher and Eric Stoltz. Sam Elliott and Laura Dern are featured in supporting roles. Cher received the 1985 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress.

Tagline: Sometimes the most unlikely people become heroes.

Plot summary

The film concerns the life and early death of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, a boy who suffered from craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare disorder known commonly as lionitis due to the disfiguring cranial enlargements that it causes.

Rocky's mother Rusty Dennis (Cher) is determined to give the boy as normal a life as possible, despite her own wild ways as a member of a biker gang. She fights to have him included in a mainstream junior high school, when the principal would rather classify him with mental retardation in order to have him sent to a special education school. Rocky (Stoltz) goes on to thrive in the school, gradually overcoming discrimination and eventually finding a girlfriend (Dern). At the end of the film, Rocky dies at the age of 16.

Impact

The commercial success of Mask was a milestone in the career of Bogdanovich, who had directed a string of critical and financial failures following his three successful films of the early 1970s. It also helped launch the careers of Stoltz and Dern.

The American animated series Family Guy spoofs the film's portrayal of Rocky Dennis in the episodes "Petarded" and "Peter's Got Woods". Also, a figure reminicent of Rocky can be seen in the South Park episode "Freak Strike".

After the film's release, Swedish pop musician Jens Lekman published Rocky Dennis EP, an EP containing four songs about Rocky and his portrayal in the film.

In an episode of the 1990s hit drama The X-Files entitled "The Post-Modern Prometheus" (first aired November 30, 1997), the Great Mutato is a similarly deformed character who loves Cher, and, in one scene, is shown watching the reunion between Rocky and his mother.

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