What the Deaf Man Heard
What the Deaf Man Heard
Release: 1997-11-23
·Runtime: 120m
·★ 6.2
Comedy
Drama
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced that he is deaf and mute. Deciding that silence offers some power and protection, the boy decides to remain mute and just listens to all that is being said around him by people who think that he cannot hear.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Cast
Matthew Modine
as Sammy Ayers
Claire Bloom
as Mrs. Tynan
Stephen Spinella
as Percy
Jake Weber
as Tolliver Tynan
Frankie Muniz
as Young Sammy Ayers
Teagle F. Bougere
as Abraham Thacker
Mark Joy
as Attorney
Judith Ivey
as Lucille
Bernadette Peters
as Helen Ayers
Anne Bobby
as Tallasse Tynan
Hallee Hirsh
as Young Tallasse
Lance Reddick
as George Thacker
Danny Kamin
as Judge
Bill Roberson
as Prosecutor
James Earl Jones
as Archibald Thacker
Tom Skerritt
as Norm Jenkins
Jerry O'Connell
as Reverend Perry Ray Pruitt