The Night Listener (film)

The Night Listener is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Patrick Stettner. The screenplay by Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson, and Stettner is based on Maupins 2000 bestselling novel of the same name, which was inspired by actual events in the authors life.

Noone begins a telephone relationship with the boy and Donna. He and Pete become increasingly close and form a fatherson relationship, much to the dismay of Jess, especially after he speaks to Donna and suspects she and the boy are the same person. Noones personal secretary Anna Sandra Oh adds fuel to the fire by discussing her research into people who fabricate elaborate stories to get attention. Determined to prove the boy exists and his story is true, Noone decides to pay a surprise visit to Pete in his hometown in rural Wisconsin. Noone discovers the return address on Petes correspondence is actually a mail drop. Soon after, while eating in a local diner, he overhears another patron and recognizes her voice as that of Donna. Hes stunned to learn shes blind and uses a guide dog. Noone follows her home and Donna senses he has followed her. She invites him into her home and talks openly about Pete, who she says is currently in the hospital undergoing tests. She assures him he can visit the boy the following day, then suddenly becomes angry and tells him she will not allow him to meet her son. Increasingly suspicious, Noone contacts all the hospitals in Madison, the site of the nearest facilities, but none have the boy registered as a patient.Noones paranoia about the boys existence grows and, hoping to find proof of his existence, he breaks into Donnas home. A police officer arrests him for breaking and entering and then, mistakenly believing him to be one of the boys abusers, attacks him with a stun baton before taking him to the station. Noone convinces the police he meant no harm and is released, only to find Donna waiting for him with the news that Pete was in a Milwaukee hospital, and was never in Madison. Distressed that Noone doesnt believe her, Donna collapses in the middle of a road and tries to hold him with her in the path of an oncoming truck. She then moves everything out of her home and disappears before the police can question her. Noone is now conv

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