Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. Wide screen (2.35:1). Special features: Director David Lynch and Kristine McKenna reading from Room to Dream; archival interviews; audio recording from 1981 of an interview and Q&A with Lynch at The American Film Institute; The terrible elephant man revealed; trailer and radio spots; booklet. Anne Bancroft, Sir John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt.
Summary:
When the London surgeon Frederick Treves meets the freak-show performer John Merrick, who has severe skeletal and soft tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.
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