Filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb spent six years making “Today’s Man,” a documentary about her brother Nicky, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of 20. Now 29, Nicky is depicted as highly intelligent but socially inappropriate, aware of his disability but unable to modulate its effects. The film documents Nicky’s quest to hold a job, get an apartment and make friends. It also muses on what will happen to Nicky and Lizzie upon the death of their parents, former New Yorker editor in chief Robert Gottlieb and actress Maria Tucci.
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