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Deaf Major 
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Bridge to Silence (1989) (TV Film) |
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A deaf
woman's husband is killed in an accident which leaves her with a
custody battle for her children. He was a teacher at Gaullaird
University.
While she, Peggy, lays injured in hospital her parents visit.
Her father can finger spell but her mother can do nothing but
talk. Her mother from whom she has been estranged wants
to take her daughter, Lisa. And Lisa goes to live with parents
while mother in hospital.
Leaving hospital Peggy cuts herself off from family and
friends. Eventually she goes to see her daughter but
smothers her in embrace and Lisa runs off to her
grandmother.
Peggy gets involved with Actors Theater of the Deaf.
After Lisa is briefly taken ill granma wants guardianship.
Fortunately her husband is not of the same mind as his wife
and he is the driving force in getting mother and daughter
back together. It's not entirely clear (besides depression and
lack of confidence) why Peggy doesn't just go and collect her
daughter. This she eventually does.
It is revealed that Peggy learned to speak for her mother but
her mother never learned to sign for her. Her mother
resented her being deaf which led to a split between them.
In a romantic intrusion the man who was her husband's best
friend is in love with Peggy.
At the end mum goes to see her in play (The Glass
Menagerie) and they are reconciled.
At least one other actress, Phyllis French, is deaf.
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Notes
National Theater of the Deaf |
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