Ellen Foster
1997
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What the Deaf Man Heard: Directed by John Kent Harrison. With Matthew Modine, Claire Bloom, Judith Ivey, James Earl Jones. Arriving in a new town, a child pretends to be deaf-mute to protect himself - a ruse which works so well that for twenty years he is custodian to all the town's secrets.
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- Comedy, Drama
- John Kent Harrison
Sammy Ayers has the town convinced he's a deaf mute and after twenty years of pulling off the charade things come to a head. How could someone pull off such a con is amazing and takes a lot of self discipline plus a lot of luck.
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.
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- John Kent Harrison
- TV-G
- Matthew Modine
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.
Sep 27, 2020 · Over 20 years since it first aired, the legacy of the TV movie What The Deaf Man Heard is still strong. The Hallmark Hall Of Fame movie had an interesting premise that revolved around a man that pretended to be deaf and ended up hearing plenty of secret conversations.
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Nov 21, 1997 · ''What the Deaf Man Heard,'' the latest Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, has even more of a cotton-candy heart than most Hallmark productions.
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Nov 17, 1997 · Primed with a quirky premise and by charmingly offbeat characters, penned by Robert W. Lenski, “What the Deaf Man Heard” is a joy. Filmed in Wilmington, N.C., by Hallmark Hall of Fame Prods.
