The Miracle Worker (1962)
Genre:
Biography / Drama (more)
Tagline: An emotional earthquake! (more)
Plot Outline: The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate. (more) (view trailer)
User Comments:
Miracle director
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User Rating:
 
7.9/10 (2,545 votes)
Runtime:
106 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:Atp / Australia:M (original rating) / Australia:PG (alternate rating) / Finland:K-8
Trivia:
Although Patty Duke had been playing Helen Keller in the play for more than year, she almost didn't get the part in the film adaptation. The studio felt that being a teenager, she looked too old to play a seven-year-old. However, they decided to use Duke after deciding to use Anne Bancroft, who played Duke's original Annie Sullivan in the play.
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Quotes:
Annie Sullivan:
Pity for this tyrant? Is there anything she wants she doesn't get? I'll tell you what I pity... that the sun won't rise and set for her all her life, and every day you're telling her it will. What you and your pity do will destroy her, Captain Keller.
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 9 wins
&
9 nominations
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User Comments:
18 out of 22 people found the following comment useful:-
Miracle director, 29 July 2001
Author:
dbdumonteil
Where do I begin? Shall I speak about Mrs Bancroft's performance,one of
the finest you can watch on a screen?Shall I tell about Patty Duke's
tour de force?Shall I praise the mind-boggling work of Arthur
Penn,mastering the long fight around the table?This movie is a miracle
in itself.Behind her dark spectacles,the teacher hides buried
terrors,that's why she's bound to understand her unusual pupil.She
knows that the solution to her problems lies in herself,that the family
is a prison .The parents do not see(or do not want to see) that they
erect a wall between their daughter and the world outside by poisoning
her with protection.That's why Annie seems brutal,hard on Helen.She
could not have broken the wall if she had been a "nice" teacher.Among
all Penn's great movies ,"miracle worker" is the only one that has an
optimistic end.Since,other directors have tackled the autism(children
of a lesser God,rain man)but no one has surpassed this black and white
gem.
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