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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: OSCARS '62: The Miracle Worker
Description: CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of deafness, blindness, ableism.
If you’ve ever done theater, and we definitely have, you dread the thought of having to deal with anything related to this movie and this story. And you’d be right to, because all too often we tell a sanitized, ableist, overacted retelling of a very real story: the breakthrough Annie Sullivan had teaching her student Helen Keller to communicate. So you’ll have to pardon our shock while watching the original film adaptation of the Broadway success, and finding it’s in fact a brilliant film. Director...