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The Night Listener

2006, Movie, R, 0 mins

The Night Listener: Review

Before the revelation that elusive writer J.T. Leroy was actually a hoax perpetrated by a San Francisco woman, there was the case of Anthony Godby Johnson, reportedly a terminally ill adolescent whose memoir, A Rock and a Hard Place, detailed a horrifying history of sexual abuse at the hands of his own parents. Johnson, who for health reasons communicated only by phone, formed an intensely emotional relationship with Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin. It continued for... read more leave a comment

The Night Listener: Cast & Details

Year: 2006
Rated R

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Robin Williams: Gabriel Noone
Rory Culkin: Pete D. Logand
Toni Collette: Donna D. Logand
Sandra Oh: Anna
Bobby Cannavale: Jess
Joe Morton: Ashe

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The Night Listener: TV Guide News

Lonely Truckers, Lot Lizards and What Alice Found | Movie News | 1/9/2007
Send your movie questions to FlickChickThis weeks spotlighted DVD Tuesday pick is What Alice Found with some virtual-discussion starters to get the conversation going Heres what got me thinking about What Alice Found 2003 The release of The Night Listener 2006 based on Armistead Maupins novelization of his real-life experience of being duped into an intense phone friendship with a dying teenager whose upcoming memoir of vicious abuse turns out to be an elaborate fraud recalled the unmasking of the JT LeRoy hoax The recent film of LeRoys autobiographical novel about his abusive childhood at the hands of his mom the lot lizard a truck-stop hooker starring and directed by Asia Argento in turn jogged my memory of this super low-budget indie And the more I thought about it the more I thought I should do my bit to let people know its out there Writer-director A Dean Bells shot-on-DV feature begins in Milford New Hampshire where recent high-school graduat read more be the first to leave a comment

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