starring Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke

John and Spiros are inseparable friends living in an intense, private world, united by the fact that both are deaf-mutes. When Spiros is sent to a mental hospital his friend is desolated and decides to move to the small Southern town of Jefferson where he lives with the Kelly family ...
Carson McCullers's great novel introduced readers to her mysterious world of love and loneliness, and provides the basis for a lyrical and deeply moving film in which Alan Arkin gives probably his finest performance, a role which won him the New York Critics Award.

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