About What the Deaf Man Heard
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.
Full Cast of What the Deaf Man Heard
Matthew Modine
plays Sammy Ayers
Claire Bloom
plays Mrs. Tynan
Judith Ivey
plays Lucille
James Earl Jones
plays Archibald Thacker
Jerry O'Connell
plays Reverend Perry Ray Pruitt
Bernadette Peters
plays Helen Ayers
Tom Skerritt
plays Norm Jenkins
Anne Bobby
plays Tallasse Tynan
Stephen Spinella
plays Percy
Jake Weber
plays Tolliver Tynan
Frankie Muniz
plays Young Sammy Ayers
Hallee Hirsh
plays Young Tallasse
Crew of What the Deaf Man Heard