Directed By

Randa Haines

Producer(s)

Burt Sugarman, Patrick Palmer Paramount Pictures

Cast

William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco, E. Katherine Kerr

About the Film

Based upon the play by Mark Medoff, this sensitive, intelligent film deals with an unorthodox speech teacher at a school for the deaf, who falls in love with a beautiful and rebellious ex-student. Inarguably romantic; the original stage production won the Best Play Tony in 1980. Hurt and Matlin reportedly continued their romance off-screen as well.