Children of a Lesser God

Children of a Lesser God (Blu-Ray) (*)

$23.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
119 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1986 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Randa Haines

Written By:
Mark Medoff
Hesper Anderson
James Carrington

Actors:
William Hurt ..... James
Marlee Matlin ..... Sarah
Piper Laurie ..... Mrs. Norman
Philip Bosco ..... Dr. Curtis Franklin
Allison Gompf ..... Lydia
John F. Cleary ..... Johnny
Philip Holmes ..... Glen
Georgia Ann Cline ..... Cheryl
William D. Byrd ..... Danny
Frank Carter Jr. ..... Tony
John Limnidis ..... William
Bob Hiltermann ..... Orin
E. Katherine Kerr ..... Mary Lee Ochs
John Basinger ..... Alan Jones
Barry Magnani ..... Tom Schuyler
Linda Bove ..... Marian Loesser
Ann Hanson ..... Martha Franklin
James Carrington ..... Mr. Harrison
Max M. Brown ..... Glen's Father
María Cellario ..... Glen's Mother
Jon-Paul Dougherty ..... Glen's Brother
Linda Swim ..... Sarah's Friend
Lois Clowater ..... Sarah's Friend
Allan R. Francis ..... Waiter
Richard Kendall ..... Cafeteria Cook
Christopher Shay ..... Ricky
Laraine Isa ..... Woman in Beauty Shop
Nanci Kendall ..... Woman at Party
Marie Brazil ..... Mother
Charlene Legere ..... Child
Leigh French ..... Announcer
Archie Hahn ..... Announcer
Jack Blessing ..... Announcer
Nicholas Guest ..... Announcer
Gigi Vorgan ..... Announcer
Lynne Marie Stewart ..... Announcer

Synopsis:

Having taught at the best institutions in the country aside from other more eclectic jobs, James Leeds, with progressive methods, has just started teaching at a school for the deaf on an island off the New England coast, where he is assigned primarily to a speech class for the upper grades. At the school, he quickly notices the young cleaning woman, who he learns is twenty-five year old Sarah Norman and who, deaf herself, was once a student there and has been there since the age of five. He can see that she is bright, headstrong and angry, on top of which she doesn't speak, the latter issues a result of a troubled home life, her mother, her only touchstone to family, who she has purposefully not seen in eight years. As he is able to get through to most of his students to feel more and more comfortable in speaking for a more holistic life, Jim, with the reluctant blessing of the school's superintendent Dr. Curtis Franklin, who has always and still considers Sarah a proverbial pain in the you-know-where, tries to get Sarah to learn how to speak so that she can reach her full potential beyond being a cleaning woman, which he will further learn is a choice if only as it allows her to live her life somewhat in solitude in her silence and anger. Although unable to break through to her on the speaking side of the equation, he is able to break through on a more humanistic level as they end up falling for each other eventually embark on a relationship. The question then becomes if there is the possibility of a long term future for them, especially in being able to bridge their many divides - not only the divide between the world of the hearing and the deaf - and in Sarah never having had a sense of who she truly is as a complete human being and not just the deaf girl who may now see what Jim is doing as solely his latest 'project'.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 01 August, 2022.

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