Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300269484 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6300269485 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: January 13, 1993 Running Time: 123 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 31, 1968 Sales Rank: 5093
Amazon.com: This quiet, sentimental 1968 drama based on the Carson McCullers novel is considered a classic contemporary coming-of-age film about alienation and love. Alan Arkin (The In-Laws) stars as a kind, but lonely deaf-mute who befriends a lonely teenage girl in his boarding house. Set in the deep South, the film depicts a wistful small-town life with an undercurrent of turmoil and intolerance. It features a standout performance by Arkin and the debut of Sondra Locke (Bronco Billy, Sudden Impact) as two fundamentally lonely people who find solace in themselves as they reach out to each other. --Robert Lane
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Rating: - ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS!!
The film is based on Carson MCuller's best-selling novel which is an Oprah Book Club selection. John Singer (Arkin) is a deaf-mute who works in a small town jewelry store doing engraving and repairs. He ... Read More
Rating: - Alan Arkin's finest performance
Wonderful story about the destructive power of loneliness. Alan Arkin (in a role of J. Singer) plays a deaf mute whose life revolves around his one and only friend who is also deaf mute. But his friend ... Read More
Rating: - Wow.
This is a terrific but sad story about a deaf-mute who works as a professional engraver, and moves to a small town to be of assistance to his only friend, another deaf-mute who also has mental retardation. ... Read More
Rating: - A statement about loneliness, community, and openly caring for others.
This is a great movie with messages that are timeless. Alan Arkin is wonderful as a deaf mute who cares deeply for people in pain. However, he cannot seem to communicate his own pain to others nor obtain comforting, ... Read More
Rating: - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
I have waited quite a while for this movie to come out on DVD. Finally it was released, Amazon of course had it and I watched it three times in one day. It is in my top five movies, and I highly recommend spending your ... Read More
- ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS!!
- Alan Arkin's finest performance