Till Human Voices Wake Us

Young adolescent Sam Franks (Lindley Joyner) spends his summers away from school with his physician father (Peter Curtin), whose schedule barely allows for quality father-son time. Therefore, Sam idles away most of his time with neighbor Maurie Lewis (Frank Gallacher) and Maurie's handicapped ...more

A glacially-paced film about a man who's lost touch with his emotions after an extremely traumatic childhood experience, Till Human Voices Wake Us wastes its talented stars Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter on material that they can do little with. Pearce is of course limited in his role as the emotionless doctor (Dr. Sam Franks) who saves Carter from drowning in a river, while Carter is stuck with a sort of tree nymph type of character (Ruby), who traipses through the forest like a careless ...more