People Next Door 2018 / Children of a Lesser God / USA 1986
An Academy Award-winning romance. James begins teaching at a school for the deaf. His belief that they should be taught to speak doesn’t wash with Sarah, who will need persuading if he is to draw her out of her world. But after falling in love with Sarah, James must learn that if we love someone, we can’t control them.
This Hollywood romance allows viewers a peek into the world of the non-hearing. James begins teaching at a school for the deaf. His well-intentioned belief that they should be taught to speak doesn’t wash with beautiful and intelligent Sarah, who is still at the school as an adult and refuses to conform to the world of the speaking. James has some persuading to do if he is to draw her out of herself, but after falling in love with Sarah, James must learn that if we love someone, we can’t control them. At the age of 21, Marlee Matlin won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Sarah, thereby becoming the youngest person to win for a leading role.
Vít Kořínek
114 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Randa Haines
/ Screenplay Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff podle stejnojmenné divadelní hry / by the stage play of the same name by Mark Medoff
/ Dir. of Photography John Seale
/ Music Michael Convertino
/ Editor Lisa Fruchtman
/ Art Director Barbra Matis
/ Producer Patrick Palme, Burt Sugarman
/ Production Paramount Pictures
/ Cast William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco
/ Sales Park Circus Group
/ Contact BFI
Randa Haines (b. 1945, Los Angeles, USA). Selected filmography: Children of a Lesser God (1986), The Doctor (1991), Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993), Dance with Me (1998)
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