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- "The Night Listener" is dark and muted in tone. It begins in a radio studio with Gabe's hushed, hypnotic voice. Rarely do the characters raise their voices above a conversational level -- and in a late scene where Gabe finally cuts loose with a tantrum, we see his outburst through a window from the darkness outside without hearing it.
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Aug 3, 2006 · "The Night Listener" is dark and muted in tone. It begins in a radio studio with Gabe's hushed, hypnotic voice. Rarely do the characters raise their voices above a conversational level -- and in a late scene where Gabe finally cuts loose with a tantrum, we see his outburst through a window from the darkness outside without hearing it.
Jun 4, 2014 · The publication of The Night Listener in 2000, though never touted as anything but a fictional thriller, shed even more light on the story, “The fiction flushed out the truth. At the time the ...
The Night Listener is a 2006 American psychological thriller film directed by Patrick Stettner and starring Robin Williams. The screenplay by Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson, and Stettner is based on Maupin's 2000 novel The Night Listener, which was inspired by Anthony Godby Johnson.
The Night Listener has an ominous tone; even the few attempts at humor come across as grim. This approach deepens the sense of mystery, and adds to the illusion that this is a "thriller." This is more of a slow cooker than a potboiler.
- Patrick Stettner
- R
- Robin Williams
Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams) is a radio-syndicated storyteller and host of a late night show "Noone at Night." He really believes that stories hold the key to the meaning of life. But things are not going well for him. He is a middle-age man who has plunged into a deep sense of loneliness and emptiness after Jess (Bobby Cannavale), his lover ...
Aug 4, 2006 · The Night Listener. Directed by Patrick Stettner. Crime, Mystery, Thriller. R. 1h 31m. By A.O. Scott. Aug. 4, 2006. Based on a novel by Armistead Maupin, which was based in turn on an episode in ...
Sep 15, 2006 · ‘Inspired by true events’ runs the opening caption of The Night Listener, after its kaleidoscopic, unsettling credits have set the tone for an eerie little yarn about the power of story.
