Despite the movie industry’s tendency to use skin conditions to identify villains, some films portray genetic conditions sympathetically.
Sir Anthony Hopkins as doctor and John Hurt as patient in "The Elephant Man," the true story of Joseph Merrick who had a very rare disorder: the Proteus syndrome. Individuals develop large soft tissue growths and limb and bone abnormalities but have normal intelligence. Though present from birth, Proteus syndrome is not thought to be directly inherited.
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