Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Movies Worth Knowing About

The 1968 film The Heart is a Lonely Hunter earned 4 Golden Globe nominations and two Academy Award nominations. The film is an adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel of the same name and tells the story of a deaf man who moves to a Southern town where he changes the lives of several people with his compassion. The book set the story in the Depression era while the movie changed the setting to the contemporary 1960s.