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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4434833, member: 44"] [B]Children of a Lesser God [/B](1986) I’ve never watched this movie and I am not a huge melodrama fan, but I have to say it was pretty good. The premise is that a teacher (William Heart) at a school for the deaf is intrigued by the deaf janitor (21-year-old Marlee Matlin) who refuses to talk. He tries to convince her to let him teach her how to talk and she refuses. After a single day he stalks her while she is swimming naked in a pool and tells her that he loves her. Creepy? You bet, but I think we’re supposed to ignore that. The tension between the two of them worth her refusal to speak and his desire to help her is a proxy for excepting people as they are. It one multiple Academy Awards including best picture and best actress for Marlee Matlin. [/QUOTE]