There are certainly whiffs of naphthalene here-unavoidable, perhaps, given The Miracle Worker’s provenance as a fifties TV movie. It suggests a starchy standoff with lots of iron-willed pose striking and hoop-skirted costume-drama hokum. Though “siege” might be too dainty a word for what’s going on at Circle in the Square. “Well,” deadpans Annie Sullivan (Alison Pill), “it’s not love. “This is hardly a war!” protests the genteel Captain Keller (Matthew Modine), in objection to the extreme teaching techniques-confinement, withholding of food, physical confrontation-proposed by his deaf, blind, and violent daughter’s brusque new tutor.
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