Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008)

Directed by

Joseph Sargent

Genre

tv movie, drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A hearing father and a deaf mother must decide whether to give their deaf son a cochlear implant. The choice brings their different views on deaf culture and identity into conflict.

emotionalthoughtfulsoberpersonalrelatableintimateseriousfamily-centered

What happens

Sweet Nothing in My Ear is a 2008 American made-for-television drama film directed by Joseph Sargent and is based on a 1998 play of the same name by Stephen Sachs, who also wrote the teleplay. It stars Jeff Daniels and Marlee Matlin as Dan and Laura Miller, the parents of deaf child Adam, played by Noah Valencia, who struggle with deciding to give their child an implant that will allow him to hear again. The film premiered on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation on April 20, 2008. This was the final film directed by Sargent before his death on December 22, 2014. With the film, Hallmark and producer-director Sargent revisited deafness with a universal theme contemplating the relationship of a minority group to society at large, 23 years after their previous film on a similar theme, the Emmy-winning Love Is Never Silent (1985). Daniels studied American Sign Language before filming, in order to portray the language accurately. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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