The Elephant Man
PG
02 hours 04 minutes
- Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Gielgud, John Hurt
- David Lynch
- Biography, Drama
- accepting, admiration, affected, curious, loving, quiet, sensitive, sympathetic, sympathy, touched
- despair, frightened, hurt, pathetic, rejected, terrible, tortured, tragic
Synopsis
John Merrick (whose real name was Joseph, as this is based on a true story) is an intelligent and friendly man, but he is hated by his Victorian-era English society because he is severely deformed. Once he is discovered by a doctor, however, he is saved from his life in a freak show and he is treated like the human being that he really is.
