Music Within(Movie, 2007)

Music Within is a 2007 American biographical period drama film directed by Steven Sawalich and starring Ron Livingston, Melissa George, Michael Sheen, Rebecca De Mornay, and Marion Ross. It follows the life of Richard Pimentel (Livingston), a respected public speaker whose hearing disability attained in the Vietnam War drove him to become an activist for the Americans with Disabilities Act. Sheen portrays Arthur Honeyman, while George portrays Pimentel's girlfriend. Filmed on location in Portland, Oregon in 2006, Music Within screened at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival in February 2007, where it won the aware for Best Narrative Feature Film. The film was acquired for distribution by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who gave it a limited theatrical release in the United States on October 26, 2007. ()