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The Wool Cap is a 2004 American television comedy-drama film directed by Steven Schachter, who wrote the teleplay with William H. Macy. It is an updated and Americanized version of the 1962 film Gigot starring Jackie Gleason, who wrote the original story.
- Comedy-Drama
Nov 19, 2004 · However irresistibly tempting it is to insist that Jackie Gleason was a better writer than Anne Tyler, that counterintuitive claim does not hold up. The plot of "The Wool Cap" is far less...
Nov 21, 2004 · When William H. Macy and Steven Schachter were working on the script for "The Wool Cap," they wrote dialogue for Macy's character -- even though he plays a mute and doesn't speak a word.
The Wool Cap: Directed by Steven Schachter. With William H. Macy, Ned Beatty, Keke Palmer, Don Rickles. The mute superintendent of a ramshackle apartment building, becomes the unwilling guardian of a little girl with an attitude.
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- Drama
- Steven Schachter
- 2004-11-21
Aug 3, 2024 · The Wool Cap is from the same team that two years ago gave us Door to Door, in which the same star, William H. Macy, portrayed a salesman with cerebral palsy and earned an Emmy. Before you...
Nov 21, 2004 · The cap of the title, which Gigot wears every day, has great sentimental value in the script, but it exists only because Mr. Macy's wife, Felicity Huffman, was knitting similar ones for the...
The Wool Cap. List. A building superintendent (William H. Macy) finds the strength to face the demons of his past through his bond with an abandoned girl. Reviews Cast & Crew Photos Media Info.
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