What the Deaf Man Heard

2h
DramaComedyTV Movie
6.2

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.

Cast

Matthew Modine
Sammy Ayers
Claire Bloom
Mrs. Tynan
Judith Ivey
Lucille
James Earl Jones
Archibald Thacker
Jerry O'Connell
Reverend Perry Ray Pruitt
Bernadette Peters
Helen Ayers
Tom Skerritt
Norm Jenkins
Anne Bobby
Tallasse Tynan
Stephen Spinella
Percy
Jake Weber
Tolliver Tynan
Frankie Muniz
Young Sammy Ayers
Hallee Hirsh
Young Tallasse
Jim Grollman
Myron
Lance Reddick
George Thacker
Teagle F. Bougere
Abraham Thacker
Karen Williams
Rachel
Terry Nienhuis
Officer Harvey
Mark Joy
Attorney
Danny Kamin
Judge
Bill Roberson
Prosecutor
K. Ryan Parker
Courtroom Gallery
Jemila Ericson
Clerk of Court

Crew

John Kent Harrison
Director
Robert W. Lenski
Teleplay
G.D. Gearino
Novel

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