Glurge: The film has an uplifting message about autism, but the protagonist's behaviors are not even close to how a regular autistic person acts. Being a popular classroom movie at the time, it may have given lots of students the wrong impression of how autistic people behave and look.
Nightmare Fuel: Believe it or not, there is a definite dash of Mood Whiplash. Milly suffers a concussion after trying to pick a rose for Eric while standing on a bridge during a field trip. In the hospital, she has a dream sequence where Eric takes her flying, out towards the clouds, dodging a shooting star, all very romantic. Milly then floats back into her room... where she finds the sheet being pulled over the head of her father's corpse by an Alpha Bitch seen earlier in the film badmouthing Eric. She then produces a dodgeball and sends Milly back down to Earth. If you weren't expecting it, it will terrify you.
