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What the Deaf Man Heard is a 1997 Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie that aired on CBS television on November 23, 1997. It concerns Sammy, a man who pretends to be deaf and mute, when in reality he can hear and speak perfectly well.
A TV movie about a boy who fakes deafness to escape his past and becomes a keeper of secrets in a small town. Starring Matthew Modine, Claire Bloom, Judith Ivey and James Earl Jones, it won a Primetime Emmy and has 7.0/10 rating on IMDb.
Find out who starred in the 1997 TV movie based on the novel by G.D. Gearino. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers and more on IMDb.
After 20 years of pretending not to be able to hear or speak, a man breaks his silence to get revenge on the man who made his life miserable. Stars Matthew Modine, James Earl Jones, Bernadette Peters, and Frankie Muniz.
After he was seemingly abandoned by his mother at the age of 10, Sammy took a vow of a silence. Since then, everyone in the tiny town of Barrington, Ga., has treated him as a deaf-mute.
- 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.
