Children of a Lesser God 1986 123movies

Watch: Children of a Lesser God 1986 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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”..
Plot: Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school as a member of the custodial staff. In spite of Sarah’s withdrawn emotional state, a romance slowly develops between the pair.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 17,278
	80% | RottenTomatoes
	80/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 246 Popularity: 10.487 | TMDB

Reviews:

My brief review of the film
There are certain minorities that are not often represented in films, and the deaf is one of these groups. It is fascinating to watch this film, as it provides an insight into working with the deaf, and trying to make it so they can cope in a world full of noises. William Hurt gives off a very naturalistic performance, managing to add eccentricity to his role without overdoing it, and his acting also includes having to sign naturally. Even though it seems like an audience pleaser to have him translate out loud everything that Marlee Matlin is saying, it is still a credible performance. Matlin is also very good, deaf in real life, and she won an Oscar for her role. The film is let down however by the choice of a generic plot structure. The impending character relationships and storyline are very predictable, although the screenplay has some interesting ideas to keep it afloat. A lot of the film is concerned with being able to accept a person for who he or she is, and whether one should adjust one’s ways or having others adjust for them. It is a good film, and has careful sound mixing work too. Matlin’s constant anger is perhaps not realistic, and it is very easy to see where the film is going, but these points do not stop it from being effective viewing and good film-making in general.

“Here you go! Hear my words! Hear my voice!”
Although somewhat formulaic, I did enjoy this movie. Marlee Matlin was sensational playing against type considering her own triumphs and experience with deafness. By that I mean she would not have shirked speaking as a deaf person out of anger or resentment. Her own words describe it best – “I have always resisted putting limitations on myself, both professionally and personally.” In the story, Matlin’s character experiences a wide range of conflicting emotions on the way to falling in love with language instructor James Leeds (William Hurt). In so doing, she manages to repair a relationship with an estranged mother (Piper Laurie), who’s only goal was to have her daughter achieve whatever she wanted in life. I liked the side stories with the teenage group in Leeds’ class, their debut as the ‘No-Tones’ was an entertaining diversion from the main story. Overall a fine story of overcoming limitations and experiencing love where it wasn’t expected.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 59 min (119 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 31853080
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Randa Haines
Writer Mark Medoff, Hesper Anderson, James Carrington
Actors William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 11 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Medallion Film Laboratories, Toronto, Canada (color), Metrocolor, Culver City (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 3,261 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm