Shoshannah Stern's doc features extensive interviews with Matlin and covers, among many things, the abuse she alleges she suffered at the hands of William Hurt.
First, manage your expectations: This bio-documentary doesn’t reveal much that its subject, the actor Marlee Matlin, hasn’t already discussed — particularly in her own 2009 memoir, in which she frankly addressed her struggles with addiction, sexual abuse experienced in childhood, and alleged violence at the hands of early boyfriend, the actor William Hurt.
But while that cozy sense of watching a film made for viewers already interested and well disposed towards Matlin never ebbs, this is still immensely watchable, not least thanks to Matlin’s still incandescent natural charisma. Chainstitching its way through Matlin’s life story in that it keeps looping back chronologically but largely goes forward,starts with the film debut that instantly made Matlin famous and won her that Oscar.
Eventually, Matlin carved out a comfy niche for herself in television, with a goodly number of film gigs on the side until Sian Heder’scame along, a comic-drama about a family of deaf people with one hearing-able daughter , the titlular “child of deaf adults”. Matlin played the protagonist’s mother, as ever projecting a simmering sensuality that clicks on screen with Troy Kotsur as her husband.
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