The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke | One Of My TopTen Favorites of all time

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke Warner Home Video, 2008 average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

When hearing-impaired John Singer moves to a Southern town to continue his friendship with a recently institutionalized fellow deaf mute, his compassion changes the lives of a small circle of struggling people--who discover The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

One Of My TopTen Favorites of all time

Arkin is brilliant. He actually learned to sign for this film, and his portrayal of a deaf-mute is incredible. There are several different stories within this film whose characters all come together at the end. The most riveting performance of all is given by Cicely Tyson who plays the daughter of a local doctor. Arkin's character, John Singer is responsible for breaking down a lifetime of prejudice on both their parts, even after Tyson's character suffers a personal tragedy because of racial injustice. Noone should miss this film.

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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

I have waited quite a while for this movie to come out on DVD. Finally it was released, Amazon of course had it and I watched it three times in one day. It is in my top five movies, and I highly recommend spending your time and money on this movie. Thanks Amazon!

Wow.

This is a terrific but sad story about a deaf-mute who works as a professional engraver, and moves to a small town to be of assistance to his only friend, another deaf-mute who also has mental retardation. The former is intelligent and significantly helpful to those around him, but remains more or less ignored as he is silent. There are numerous sub-plots, and the actors, who include Sondra Locke and Cicily Tyson, are excellent. This is drama at its best.

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Alan Arkin's finest performance

Wonderful story about the destructive power of loneliness. Alan Arkin (in a role of J. Singer) plays a deaf mute whose life revolves around his one and only friend who is also deaf mute. But his friend is simple and cannot stop himself from getting into a trouble. When situation becomes too difficult to handle his friend is moved to another town to an institution. To escape loneliness, Arkin's character moves to that city, finds another job, rents a room from impoverished southern family and hopes to start a new life. In spite of being generous with people around him, he is still considered outsider. Few people can understand him or relate to him. When his friend dies in the institution and a black doctor who our character became close with is diagnosed with cancer, set of circumstances make our protagonist even more isolated than ever before. Alone and unconsoled, he commits suicide in his small rented room. It is only after that act that people he truly cared about are there to acknowledge the enormous impact he had on their lives.

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A statement about loneliness, community, and openly caring for others.

This is a great movie with messages that are timeless. Alan Arkin is wonderful as a deaf mute who cares deeply for people in pain. However, he cannot seem to communicate his own pain to others nor obtain comforting, love or a feeling of belonging for himself. I took his deaf-mute character as being a symbol for the many good people in our society who "can't quit fit-in" due to personal or social barriers that get in the way. This movie also shows the ultimate tragedy that occurs when people are "forgotten."

A young Sondra Locke is very good in her role, but does tend to "over act" a bit. The other characters do a fine job with there roles. Some younger viewers may find the style and values of the era portrayed--late 50's to early 60's--to be dated and hard to relate with. If they can look past the surface features of the movie and see the humanity I think they will be touched.

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