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What the Deaf Man Heard

For twenty years, he lived in silence. Now his heart needs to speak the truth.

1997★ 6.4 · 222h 0mDramaComedyTV Movie

Overview

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.

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Matthew Modine
as Sammy Ayers

Jake Weber
as Tolliver Tynan

James Earl Jones
as Archibald Thacker

Tom Skerritt
as Norm Jenkins

Lance Reddick
as George Thacker

Jerry O'Connell
as Reverend Perry Ray Pruitt

Bernadette Peters
as Helen Ayers

Frankie Muniz
as Young Sammy Ayers

Hallee Hirsh
as Young Tallasse

Claire Bloom
as Mrs. Tynan

Judith Ivey
as Lucille

Stephen Spinella
as Percy

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Release date: 1997-11-23

Runtime: 2h 0m

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DramaComedyTV Movie

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