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CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD

Director:

  Randa Haines
  

Year Released:

  1986

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

4 out of 5

3.5 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Philip Bosco
  Allison Gompf
  William Hurt
  Piper Laurie
  Marlee Matlin
Movie Haiku:Matlin enters the pantheon of stars who met Oscar on their debut. Hurt is a well-intentioned teacher at a school for the deaf shaken out of his personal & professional complacency by a ferocious young woman whose world of silence is both her prison & her palace.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  No

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2001