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((Short description|1997 Movie))
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| creator              = G.D. Gearino (novel)
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| writer               = [[Robert W. Lenski]]
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| story                = 
| director             = [[John Kent Harrison]]
| starring             = [[Matthew Modine]]<br />[[James Earl Jones]]
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| theme_music_composer = [[J.A.C. Redford]]
| country              = USA
| language             = English
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'''''What the Deaf Man Heard''''' is a 1997 ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' television movie that aired on [[CBS]] television on November 23, 1997. It concerns Sammy, a man who pretends to be deaf and [[Muteness|mute]], when in reality he can hear and speak perfectly well. The movie stars [[Matthew Modine]] and [[James Earl Jones]] and is based on the novel ''What the Deaf Mute Heard'' by G.D. Gearino.

==Plot summary==
Helen Ayers and her young son Sammy board an [[bus|intercity bus]] to move to a better life. Sammy’s curious questions annoy Helen but she won’t reveal the surprise and admonishes him to be silent, putting him to sleep. At a rest stop, Helen goes into a bar to get a drink but is dragged into a vacant lot and murdered as the bus leaves. Sammy sleeps through the night until the bus arrives at the end of the route, Barrington, [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].

When a despondent Sammy ignores him, the cynical bus driver believes he is deaf and abandoned by his mother. Norm Jenkins, the kindhearted terminal manager, takes an immediate liking to Sammy and is very protective, as is Lucille, the owner and cook at the terminal’s cafe. Norm sees Sammy and Lucille as his surrogate son and wife as he had lost his own family to the [[Influenza pandemic of 1918]]. Young Tolliver Tynan stops with his adopted sister, Tallasse, and mother, Maddie, to watch Sammy being questioned by the police chief and tries to spook Sammy by lighting a [[cherry bomb]]. Sammy sees Tolliver’s activity in a reflection and steels himself to not react to the blast, which convinces the entire town that he is in fact deaf. Norm sets up Sammy to sleep in the storage room. Looking through Helen’s suitcase left on the bus, Norm finds important documents.

Sammy spends the next decades living in the terminal and working as the town’s handyman, hearing various secrets from people who believe him to be deaf. Norm backtracks along the route of the bus and eventually tracks down Helen’s [[cold case]]. Tallasse has returned after years away with dreams of becoming a professional photographer. Tolliver is still arrogant and patronizing as the [[treasurer]] of the town church. As his [[inheritance]] is tied up in a [[trust law|trust]] until his mother dies, he has various unsuccessful moneymaking schemes, all financed by funds he has [[embezzlement|embezzled]] from the church. Sammy hears all of Tolliver's secrets.

[[Black people|Black]] junk dealer Archibald Thacker and his sons masquerade as [[poverty|poor]] but are actually [[Harvard University|Harvard]]-educated businessmen as well as [[moonshine]] runners. They scheme to temporarily store a shipment of the liquor in the church’s large, new [[baptismal font]].

The Tynan house hosts the church’s newly ordained and unsure [[preacher]], Reverend Pruitt. Seeing a newspaper article where a [[rock & roll]] group, the Weevils, claimed to be bigger than God (inspired by [[Beatles|Beatle]] [[John Lennon]]’s “[[More popular than Jesus]]" remark), Pruitt is inspired to hold a [[book burning|record-burning]] event. The event grows out of control and gains a festive atmosphere. [[Ember]]s from the [[bonfire]] ignite nearby fireworks, sending a [[skyrocket]] into the church and directly into the font full of alcohol, burning the church down.

Tolliver is put on trial for his embezzlement as the church is revealed to be uninsured. Sammy is called as the first witness and everyone is surprised when he speaks. Tolliver’s mother collapses and dies from shock. Tolliver believes he is finally entitled to his inheritance. Norm reveals the [[Notary|notarized]] [[affidavit]] he found decades earlier in which Tolliver’s father identifies Sammy as his [[legitimacy (family law)|illegitimate]] son by Helen, born just before Tolliver. As firstborn, Sammy is the legal heir to the Tynan fortune according to the terms of the [[Will and testament|will]]. Tolliver is sentenced to jail.

Sammy gives away much of his newfound wealth to charity as well as to Norm and Lucille. He boards a bus to begin exploring the country. Tallasse chases down the bus in her car and joins Sammy on his trip.

==Cast==
Source:TCM<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/483266/What-the-Deaf-Man-Heard/|title=What the Deaf Man Heard: Cast and Overview|website= TCM|access-date=July 5, 2016))</ref>

*Sammy Ayers — [[Matthew Modine]]	
*Norm Jenkins — [[Tom Skerritt]]
*Lucille — [[Judith Ivey]]
*Tolliver Tynan — [[Jake Weber]]
*Tallasse Tynan - [[Anne Bobby]]
*Percy - [[Stephen Spinella]]
*Reverend Perry Ray Pruitt  - [[Jerry O'Connell]]
*Archibald Thacker — [[James Earl Jones]]
*Maddie Tynan — [[Claire Bloom]]	
*Young Sammy — [[Frankie Muniz]]
*Helen Ayers — [[Bernadette Peters]]

==Reception==
In her ''New York Times'' review, Caryn James wrote: "Nothing seems real in ''What the Deaf Man Heard.'' Instead, its soothing, storybook quality has Hallmark written all over it."<ref>((Cite news|author=James, Caryn|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E1D7143BF932A15752C1A961958260&scp=1&sq=%22What+The+Deaf+Man+Heard+%22|title=Television Review; Silent 20 Years, but Really Listening|work=The New York Times|date=November 21, 1997))</ref> Tony Scott gave it a more favorable review in ''Variety'': "Primed with a quirky premise and by charmingly offbeat characters, penned by Robert W. Lenski, ''What the Deaf Man Heard'' is a joy."<ref>((Cite web|last=Scott|first=Tony|date=1997-11-17|title=What the Deaf Man Heard|url=https://variety.com/1997/tv/reviews/what-the-deaf-man-heard-1200451826/|access-date=2020-10-04|website=Variety|language=en))</ref>

The film was the highest-rated made-for-television movie on any network since 1991 with approximately 36 million viewers.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://movies.eetoknow.com/wiki/Hallmark_Movie_Channel|website=movies.lovetoknow.com|title=Hallmark Movie Channel
|author= Jennifer Alpeche|year=2010))</ref><ref>((Cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE6DD143AF935A15752C1A961958260&scp=4&sq=%22What+The+Deaf+Man+Heard+%22 |title=TV NOTES; The Ratings, From All Angles
|author=Bill Carter|work=The New York Times|date=November 26, 1997))</ref>

The film received 1998 [[Emmy]] nominations for Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Judith Ivey) and won for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Movie.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/shows/what-deaf-man-heard-hallmark-hall-fame-pre|website=Emmys| access-date= July 5, 2016|date=1998|title=What The Deaf Man Heard))</ref> It also received a [[Golden Globe]] nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV (Matthew Modine).

==See also==

*[[List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*((IMDb title|0120498))
*[http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/hallmark/ What the Deaf Man Heard at cinema.ucla]

((John Kent Harrison))

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