- Actors: Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Laurinda Barrett, Stacy Keach, Chuck McCann
- Directors: Robert Ellis Miller
- Writers: Thomas C. Ryan, Carson McCullers
- Producers: Joel Freeman, Marc Merson, Thomas C. Ryan
- Format: NTSC
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: Nov 1 2001
- Run Time: 123 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6300269485
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #7,180 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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This quiet, sentimental 1968 drama based on the Carson McCullers novel is considered a classic contemporary coming-of-age film about alienation and love. Alan Arkin (The In-Laws) stars as a kind, but lonely deaf-mute who befriends a lonely teenage girl in his boarding house. Set in the deep South, the film depicts a wistful small-town life with an undercurrent of turmoil and intolerance. It features a standout performance by Arkin and the debut of Sondra Locke (Bronco Billy, Sudden Impact) as two fundamentally lonely people who find solace in themselves as they reach out to each other. --Robert Lane
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This movie is touching on so many levels,
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This review is from: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (DVD)
After spending the time to finally read the book "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter", which, by the way, is an excellent work depicting such sadness and angst, I purchased the movie that had been made some years ago. I found this to be an excellent movie. It encapsulates, as best as is possible for a 2 hour movie to do with a novel, the basics of the story. Of course, the book is much better, but that is because books have the opportunity to supply more depth and detail. That being said, I believe Alan Arkin does a fantastic portrayal of Mr.Singer and Sandra Locke's interpretation of Mick Kelly is 'bang-on'.
Well worth the purchase.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Seeking Bliss,
This review is from: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (DVD)
Arkin is superb, depicting a compassionate, intelligent, and thoughtful deaf mute who communicates better than most hearing individuals. Although the movie veers somewhat from the book, in that Mick has fewer siblings, it clearly captures the loneliness of the characters and well displays the tension between blacks and whites in the south.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Faithful to the book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the (VHS Tape)
It's such a relief when a movie does justice to a book. GONE WITH THE WIND comes to mind with its sweeping family sagas and passion, as does FRIED GREEN TOMATOES. Both are excellent adaptations and joining those two is the movie, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. With stellar performances by not only Arkin, but everyone else as well, this sweet, disturbing, haunting look at small town life during the Depression is a classic. One can only hope that McCrae's book, THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOOD gets treated as well as these two. Highly recommended.
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