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| Title | What the Deaf Man Heard (1997) (TV Film) | | Alternative/Original Title | | | Disability | Deaf Speaking Impaired | | Country | USA | | Length | 100 | | Genre | Drama | | Rating | 3 | | Director | John Kent Harrison
| | Cast | Mathew Modine Tom Skerritt Bernadette Peters Judith Ivey Claire Bloom James Earl Jones
| | Notes | A boy ends up at a bus station after his mother is murdered when the bus they travelling on stops for a break. He is 'adopted' by the station manager but he decides to pretend he is deaf and speaking impaired. The film starts in the forties and then shifts to the sixties. The boy as adult is still playing deaf and speaking impaired. He's become an odd-job man patronised by the small community but obviously no attempt has been made to help him communicate. He faces prejudice but no one bothers about it. At the end of the film, in court of course, he speaks for the first time. Not such a bad film though totally implausible and his 'disability' used as a plot device and symbol of innocence. From the novel What the Deaf-Mute Heard by G.D. Gearino
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