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Tommy is a 1975 British musical fantasy drama film written and directed by Ken Russell and based on the Who 's 1969 rock opera album of the same name about a "psychosomatically deaf, mute, and blind" boy who becomes a pinball champion and religious leader. [5]
Tommy: Directed by Ken Russell. With Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Elton John. A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.
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After seeing his stepfather murder his father during an argument over his mother, young Tommy goes into shock, suddenly becoming psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind.
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Nora Walker is told that her British bomber pilot husband is missing in action and presumed killed in World War II. On V.E. Day, Nora gives birth to their son and names him Tommy.
108 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1975. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1975. 3 min read. The movie’s purpose and achievement would be hard to figure out on the basis of what its makers say about it. Pete Townshend, who wrote the original album for The Who, says Tommy is an attack on the hypocrisy of organized religion.
www.screenbound.co.ukTommy [1975]Only Ken Russell could have done full cinematic justice to The Who’s psychedelic rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind kid...
