Children of a Lesser God (1986)
"She is the most mysterious, independent, beautiful, angry person he has ever met. He is the first man who has ever gotten close enough to love her."
ThumbScore
👍 75%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 80%
(RT: 81%, MC: 80) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Marlee Matlin as Sarah Norman
Allison Gompf as Lydia
John F. Cleary as Johnny
Philip Holmes as Glen
Georgia Ann Cline as Cheryl
Is Children of a Lesser God good?
Most people think so. 75% audience score, estimated from 355 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.
Overview
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school as a member of the custodial staff. In spite of Sarah's withdrawn emotional state, a romance slowly develops between the pair. Wikipedia ↗
