Dead Silence (1997)

Directed by

Daniel Petrie

Genre

thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An FBI negotiator and a deaf teacher try to save a group of students taken hostage by three escaped convicts. The captors grow more volatile as the negotiation stretches on.

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What happens

Dead Silence is a 1997 Canadian-American crime thriller television film directed by Daniel Petrie Jr. and written by Donald E. Stewart, based on the 1995 novel A Maiden's Grave by Jeffery Deaver. The film stars James Garner, Kim Coates, Marlee Matlin, and Lolita Davidovich. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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