Can a 34-year-old man with a college degree and Down syndrome find happiness with a female co-worker at a social-services agency whose bad bleach job and life of drinking, smoking and one-night stands make her look at least 10 years older than her 24?
That’s the question in the Spanish movie “Me, Too.” Written and directed by Alvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, the Seville-set drama features uniformly good performances by the actors who play the couple: Lola Dueñas, who has worked in several Pedro Almodovar films, and Pablo Pineda, who has Down syndrome.
But the clichéd, heavy-handed script lets them down. A subplot about the woman’s estranged, dying father adds little to the story, and another one about the relationship between a different man and woman who both have Down syndome and find resistance from the woman’s mother threatens to overshadow the main relationship.