The Miracle Worker
Directors
Arthur Penn
Actors
- Anne Bancroft
- Patty Duke
- Victor Jory
Credits: 1
Summary
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
More about this movie
Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.