Edition |
Widescreen version. |
Description |
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Physical Medium |
DVD 4 3/4 in. |
Description |
digital optical mono Dolby Digital |
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video file DVD video region 1 |
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NTSC |
System Details |
DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby Digital mono. |
Cast |
William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco. |
Credits |
Music, Michael Convertino ; editor, Lisa Fruchtman ; production design, Gene Callahan ; director of photography, John Seale. |
Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1986. |
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Based on the stage play by Mark Medoff. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: R. |
Summary |
A love story about John Leeds, an idealistic special education teacher, and a headstrong deaf girl named Sarah. At first, Leeds sees Sarah as a teaching challenge. But soon their relationship blossoms into a love so passionate it shatters the barrier of silence that keeps them apart. |
Contents |
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs -- Interactive menus -- Scene selection (All over the map ; Reasons to speak ; Sarah ; Alone in silence ; Hearing boys ; Tell me what to say ; I promise ; Boomerang ; Deaf children ; Say my name ; Show me the music ; What do you hear ; Separate but one ; Forgive me ; Inside the silence ; Joined ; Credits) -- Theatrical trailer -- Language: English Dolby digital mono ; French Dolby digital mono -- Subtitles: English. |
Awards |
Academy Award winner, best actress, Marlee Matlin. |
Note |
Special features: Interactive menus, scene selection, theatrical trialer. |
Language |
Includes French dubbed version and subtitles in English. |
Subject |
Medoff, Mark, 1940-2019 -- Film adaptations.
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Medoff, Mark, 1940-2019. |
Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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Subject |
Deaf. |
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Deaf -- Education. |
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Deaf women. |
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Man-woman relationships. |
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United States. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Feature films.
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Drama.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Film adaptations.
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Added Author |
Haines, Randa, film director.
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Sugarman, Burt, film producer.
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Anderson, Hesper, screenwriter.
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Medoff, Mark, 1940-2019, screenwriter.
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Palmer, Patrick, film producer.
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Hurt, William, actor.
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Matlin, Marlee, actor.
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Laurie, Piper, 1932-2023.
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Bosco, Philip, actor.
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Convertino, Michael, composer.
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Fruchtman, Lisa, editor of moving image work.
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Callahan, Gene, 1923-1990, production designer.
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Seale, John, 1942- director of photography.
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Medoff, Mark, 1940-2019.
Children of a lesser god.
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Paramount Pictures Corporation.
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Added Title |
Children of a lesser god (Motion picture) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98002802
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Standard No. |
032429284570 |
Music No. |
2079763 Paramount |
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