Music Within

Music Within is a 2007 drama film directed by Steven Sawalich and starring Ron Livingston, Melissa George, Michael Sheen, Rebecca De Mornay and Marion Ross. The film tells the true story of Richard Pimentel, a respected public speaker whose hearing disability attained in the Vietnam War drove him to become an activist for the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The true story of Richard Pimentel, a brilliant public speaker with a troubled past. As a young man, Pimentel Ron Livingston realized he had a remarkable gift for public speaking. Pimentels idol is College Bowl founder Dr. Padrow Hector Elizondo, but upon trying out for Dr. Padrow, the ambitious young speaker is informed that he wont have anything to talk about until he has lived a full life.Realizing that there is some merit to Dr. Padrows observation, Pimentel subsequently enlists in the military and prepares for duty in Vietnam. Later, while fighting on the battlefield, Pimentel loses most of his hearing and is left with permanent tinnitus. He returns home frustrated. When others inform him that he will never achieve his dreams because he is deaf, the determined veteran makes it his mission to prove them wrong. ........

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