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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Ellis Miller released in USA on 31 july 1968 with Alan Arkin
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 31 july 1968
Length 2h3
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Rating75%
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a 1968 American film adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Ellis Miller. It stars Alan Arkin and introduced Sondra Locke, both earning Academy Award nominations. The film updates the novel's small-town Southern setting from the Depression era to the then-contemporary 1960s.
Synopsis
John Singer (Alan Arkin) is a deaf-mute who works as a silver engraver in a small southern town. His only friend is a mentally disabled mute, Antonapoulos (Chuck McCann), who continually gets into trouble with the law since he doesn't know any better. When Antonapoulos is committed to a mental institution by his family, Singer decides to move to a town near the institution in order to be near his friend. Singer finds work there and rents a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly (Biff McGuire and Laurinda Barrett), who are having financial difficulties as a result of Mr. Kelly's recent hip injury. Because the Kellys' teenage daughter, Mick (Sondra Locke), resents having to give up her room to him, Singer makes a few tentative efforts to win her friendship. Singer also tries to become friends with Blount (Stacy Keach), a semi-alcoholic drifter, and Dr. Copeland (Percy Rodriguez), an embittered segregationist African American who is secretly dying of lung cancer. Copeland's deepest disappointment is that his educated daughter, Portia (Cicely Tyson), works as a domestic and is married to a field hand.Actors
Alan Arkin
(John Singer)
Sondra Locke
(Margaret "Mick" Kelly)
Stacy Keach
(Blount)
Cicely Tyson
(Portia Copeland)
Chuck McCann
(Antonapoulos)
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