Music Within (2007)

Directed by

Steven Sawalich

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After losing his hearing in the Vietnam War, Richard Pimentel becomes a public speaker and fights for the rights of people with disabilities. The movie shows his friendship with a man who has cerebral palsy and his efforts to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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What happens

Music Within is a 2007 American biographical period drama film directed by Steven Sawalich and starring Ron Livingston, Melissa George, Michael Sheen, Rebecca De Mornay, Marion Ross, Yul Vazquez, Leslie Nielsen, and Héctor Elizondo. It follows the life of Richard Pimentel (Livingston), a respected public speaker whose hearing disability attained in the Vietnam War drove him to become an activist for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Sheen portrays Arthur Honeyman, while George portrays Pimentel's girlfriend. Filmed on location in Portland, Oregon, in 2006, Music Within screened at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival in February 2007, where it won the award for Best Narrative Feature Film. The film was acquired for distribution by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, who gave it a limited theatrical release in the United States on October 26, 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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