Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Matthew Modine | ... | Sammy Ayers | |
Claire Bloom | ... | Mrs. Tynan | |
Judith Ivey | ... | Lucille | |
James Earl Jones | ... | Archibald Thacker | |
Jerry O'Connell | ... | Reverend Perry Ray Pruitt | |
Bernadette Peters | ... | Helen Ayers | |
Tom Skerritt | ... | Norm Jenkins | |
Anne Bobby | ... | Tallasse Tynan | |
Stephen Spinella | ... | Percy | |
Jake Weber | ... | Tolliver Tynan | |
Frankie Muniz | ... | Young Sammy | |
Andy Stahl | ... | Finis | |
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Tyler Noyes | ... | Young Tolliver |
Hallee Hirsh | ... | Young Tallasse | |
Teagle F. Bougere | ... | Abraham Thacker |
In 1945, a young boy arrives in a small Georgia town on a bus from which his mother was abducted and murdered. Alone he sits quietly and everyone becomes convinced that he is deaf and mute. Deciding that silence offers some power and protection, the boy decides to remain mute and just listens to all that is being said around him by people who think that he cannot hear. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
All you have to do is sit back and observe what is going on in the town and you can identify with Sammy and get in on the plots going on around him. His faking it is a great deal more believable than much of what is on the tube these days. Quit trying to make more of it than was meant.