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Title Children of a lesser god / Paramount Pictures presents a Burt Sugarman production ; screenplay by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff ; produced by Burt Sugarman and Patrick Palmer ; directed by Randa Haines.

Publication Info. Hollywood CA : Paramount Pictures, [2017]

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 Moore Video  PN1997 .C435 2017    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
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
video file DVD video region 1
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.
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.
Medoff, Mark, 1940-2019.
Genre/Form Film adaptations.
Subject Deaf.
Deaf -- Education.
Deaf women.
Man-woman relationships.
United States.
Genre/Form Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Drama.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Film adaptations.
Added Author Haines, Randa, film director.
Sugarman, Burt, film producer.
Anderson, Hesper, screenwriter.
Medoff, Mark, 1940-2019, screenwriter.
Palmer, Patrick, film producer.
Hurt, William, actor.
Matlin, Marlee, actor.
Laurie, Piper, 1932-2023.
Bosco, Philip, actor.
Convertino, Michael, composer.
Fruchtman, Lisa, editor of moving image work.
Callahan, Gene, 1923-1990, production designer.
Seale, John, 1942- director of photography.
Medoff, Mark, 1940-2019. Children of a lesser god.
Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Added Title Children of a lesser god (Motion picture) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98002802
Standard No. 032429284570
Music No. 2079763 Paramount