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The Miracle Worker is a biographical drama film directed by Arthur Penn and released on 23 May 1962, based on the play The Story of My Life by William Gibson, who also wrote the screenplay, and produced by Fred Coe. Set in Alabama, it stars Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory and Inga Swenson, with a score by Laurence Rosenthal and editing by Aram Avakian. Shot in black-and-white by United Artists on a budget of 500,000, it took 2,500,000 in revenue and runs 106 minutes.
The film won the Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress and was named to the National Board of Review's Top Ten Films, and it is part of the National Film Registry. Distributed by United Artists and Netflix, it carries the tagline "An emotional earthquake!"
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7.9The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
Cast
- Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan
- Patty Duke as Helen Keller
- Victor Jory as Captain Arthur Keller
- Inga Swenson as Kate Keller
- Andrew Prine as James Keller
- Kathleen Comegys as Aunt Ev
Themes
- blindness and impaired vision
- deaf-mute
- education
- biography
- historical figure
- teacher
- tutor
- teacher student relationship
- tantrum
- railway station
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- biographical film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Story of My Life
- Director
- Arthur Penn
- Screenwriter
- William Gibson
- Cast member
- William F. Haddock
- Composer
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Producer
- Fred Coe
- Production company
- United Artists
- Narrative location
- Alabama
- Duration
- 107
- FilmAffinity ID
- 462819
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1962-01-01
- Commons category
- The Miracle Worker (1962 film)
- title
- The Miracle Worker
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- film editor
- Aram Avakian
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 96%
- characters
- Helen Keller
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