Just the Way You Are is a 1984 American comedy-drama film starring Kristy McNichol and Michael Ontkean and directed by Édouard Molinaro.

Susan is a professional flautist in Philadelphia who has been handicapped since childhood and is forced to wear a leg brace to get around.

While in Paris, she comes up with an idea to disguise her leg by putting it in a cast and travel on her own to the French Alps to be treated without pity.

[2] In France, Kristy McNichol suffered an emotional breakdown while filming, and production had to be interrupted for a year while she recovered.

Kristy said she was ready to go back to work within a month, but that shooting the snow scenes for the film's second-half would have to wait until the following winter.