Bill Hurt is a teacher of the hard of hearing whose growing friendship with a beautiful deaf woman leads him to confront his own prejudices and frustrations about her condition. A brave film for using a real deaf-mute actress in the lead role, only for her to win an Oscar and marry William Hurt ! find out more...

A rather over-sentimentalised romantic drama about the wife of a war-hero who falls in love with a paraplegic 'Nam vet. The drama is underplayed, and cliched in places, and Jane Fonda, despite a sterling attempt, comes across as just a bit too saintly. The ending adds credibilty though. find out more...

A superb screen adaptation of William Gibson's play about Helen Keller who following an illness during infancy is left blind, deaf, and mute. Loved and yet misunderstood by her parents, Helen is allowed to run wild as she frustratedly struggles to communicate with the world around her. The generally held belief that Helen is a creature to be pitied, loved and incapable of intelligent interaction all changes with the arrival of a new governess Annie, played by Ann Bancroft, who having to overc find out more...