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Mask is a 1985 American biographical drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Cher, Sam Elliott, and Eric Stoltz with supporting roles played by Dennis Burkley, Laura Dern, Estelle Getty, and Richard Dysart. Cher received the 1985 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress. The film is based on the life and early death of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, a boy who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare genetic disorder known commonly as lionitis due to the disfiguring cranial enlargements that it causes. Mask won the Academy Award for Best Makeup at the 58th ceremony, while Cher and Stoltz received Golden Globe Award nominations for their performances.

Plot
In 1979 Azusa, California, Rocky Dennis, a teenage boy with the extremely rare genetic disorder known as craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, is accepted without question by his freewheeling bohemian biker mother's boyfriend Gar, who is a father figure to him, his "extended motorcycle family," and his maternal grandparents who share his passion of baseball card collecting; but is treated with fear, pity, awkwardness, and teasing by those unaware of his humanity, humor, and intelligence. Rocky's unstable mother, Florence "Rusty" Dennis, is determined to give Rocky as normal a life as possible, in spite of her eccentric and chaotic life as a member of the Turks biker gang, as well as her strained relationship with her father Abe. She fights for Rocky's enrollment in a junior high school, and confronts the principal Mr. Simms who would rather classify Rocky as intellectually disabled and relegate him to a special education school, despite the fact that his condition has not affected his intelligence. At his semi-annual physical, Rocky claims to be feeling well despite recurring excruciating headaches that Rusty can simply remedy by singing to him. A young doctor tells Rusty that Rocky's life expectancy is limited to only less than six months, but she scoffs, pointing out that other doctors made erroneous claims about Rocky's condition (e.g he would be deaf, blind, intellectually impaired, etc.) that were all completely disproven.

Rocky goes on to thrive at school, making friends with his wit and humor, tutoring his classmates for $3 per hour, as well as assisting a fellow student with his locker combination, and telling an entertaining rendition of the Trojan Wars to his history class. Shortly before graduation, he is asked by the principal to accept a job as a counselor's aide at Camp Bloomfield, a summer camp for visually impaired children, which he is hesitant to accept. At his graduation from junior high, Rocky takes home several academic achievement prizes in mathematics, history, and science.

Rocky feels the need to leave his chronically depressed and drug-addicted mother, and helps her break her drug habit by signing her up for drug rehabilitation and he accepts the job offer as a camp counselor. At camp, Rocky falls in love with Diana Adams, an attractive but blind and teenage girl, who cannot see but feel Rocky’s deformed face and is entranced by Rocky's kindness and compassion. Rocky explains to Diana words like "billowy," "clouds," "red," and "green" by using cotton balls as a touchable vision of "billowy clouds," a warm rock to explain "red" and "pink," and a frozen rock to explain "icy blue." Diana and Rocky also share their first kiss at a New Year’s Eve themed dance. At the end of camp, Diana introduces Rocky to her parents, who are horrified at the sight of his abnormal appearance and forbid Diana to spend time with him.

Rocky finds it more difficult with attending a high school with none of his old friends from junior high, and continues to encounter cruelty from students regarding his deformed face. However, where Rocky used to respond to it with wit and humor, one day he lashes out and slams a bully against a locker after being taunted for having a “mask”. He is further crushed when his lifelong ambitious dream of a motorbike trip through Europe is shattered when his best friend Ben, who was to accompany him, reveals that he is leaving Azusa and moving back to Michigan permanently to live with his father. However, Rocky is able to take a bus trip to visit Diana at the equestrian stables, located near Griffith Park, where Rocky learns that her parents have prevented her from receiving his phone calls and messages and are sending her to a private boarding school for the blind and they will likely never see each other again. Despite this, Rocky vows that despite being separated, they will always love each other and will always be together even in their memories.