Marlee Matlin's new documentary 'Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore' offers a raw and honest look at her life as a deaf actor, including her Oscar win, her tumultuous relationship with William Hurt, and her experiences navigating deaf culture. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival to a standing ovation.
Marlee Matlin gives an unflinchingly honest account of her experiences as a deaf actor in the funny and revelatory documentary “ Marlee Matlin : Not Alone Anymore.” The film kicked off the 41st Sundance Film Festival , after the screening audiences in the theater, some wiping tears away, greeted Matlin with a standing ovation when she took the stage.
The film delves into all aspects of her life, personal and professional: Her childhood and how her family handled learning she had become deaf at 18 months; her experience winning the best actress Oscar for her first movie role in “Children of a Lesser God” and her allegedly abusive romantic relationship with her co-star, the late William Hurt. The film was directed by Shoshanna Stern, who also is deaf. Matlin specifically requested that Stern take on the project when American Masters approached her about doing a documentary. Matlin has written about her experiences before, including her volatile relationship with Hurt and drugs, in a memoir, “I’ll Scream Later.” But before the #MeToo movement, she felt her allegations were largely dismissed or glossed over. Interviews from the book's press tour show journalists were more interested in the “amazing sex” she said she had with Hurt than the stories of the alleged physical and verbal abuse. One interviewer asked her why she waited “so long” to come forward with the claims. The documentary isn’t just a portrait of Matlin, but a broader look at deaf culture and how Matlin was thrust into the spotlight at a young age as a de facto spokesperson for all deaf causes. In 2022, only deaf actor to win an Academy Award, she helped lobby Congress for closed captioning and delved into the Gallaudet University protest about hiring hearing people to preside over the university, which is the subject of another Sundance documentary, “Deaf President Now!” Matlin also faced backlash when she spoke while presenting the best actor Oscar the year after she won, an experience that she said made her distance herself from deaf causes
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