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Nov 21, 2004 · 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
TNT's holiday TV-movie The Wool Cap, in which Rickles plays a kindly neighbor to William H. Macy's down-on-his-luck mute, lets him show off a sweeter side.
Viacom Productions. Original release. Network. TNT. Release. November 21, 2004. ( 2004-11-21) 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.
- Steven Schachter
Nov 21, 2004 · Created for the TNT television network, The Wool Cap is a remake of the 1962 film Gigot, which was written by and starred the legendary Jackie Gleason. This time around, it's Academy Award-nominee and Emmy winner William H. Macy (Fargo) handling the lead role, as well as teleplay and producer duties. Macy stars as Gigot, a curmudgeonly mute who ...
A kindhearted, mute janitor, Gigot, befriends and looks after a drug addict's little girl after she is orphaned. Together, they find hope and friendship in their troubled lives.
- Steven Schachter
- William H. Macy
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Nov 20, 2004 · This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude.
Nov 20, 2004 · On Sunday at 8 p.m., TNT presents Macy in “The Wool Cap,” an Americanized – and superior – remake. Leslie Halliwell, in his Film Guide, calls the original “Gigot” a “grotesque piece of...