
Release Date
August 4, 2006
DVD Release Date
January 9, 2007 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Patrick Stettner
Writer
Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson, Patrick Stettner
Cast
Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Sandra Oh, Rory Culkin, Joe Morton, John Cullum, Bobby Cannavale
Studio
Running Time
91 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for language and some disquieting sexual content
"The Night Listener" tackles the narrative of Armistead Maupin's most haunting page-turner, in which popular public radio storyteller Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams) develops an intense phone relationship with a young listener named Pete (Rory Culkin) and the social worker who rescued him from a life of abuse (Toni Collette). But Gabriel soon comes to the startling realization that it is quite possible that neither the boy nor his painful account of his childhood really exist.... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Robin Williams stars in The Night Listener, a slightly creepy but ultimately forgettable thriller about a late night radio talk show host who befriends a dying boy who he eventually comes to believe doesn't exist.
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