Alison Sealy-Smith, Catherine O'Hara, David Michie
The well-worn, everyman face of William H. Macy anchors The Wool Cap, which carefully walks the perilous line between sentiment and sap. Gigot (Macy, Fargo), mute since a car accident da...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 14, 2005
Stats: 66 reviews
Many years ago Charlie Chaplin made a delightful film entitled The Kid in which an impoverished, kind hearted man befriends a little child and the two of them become very close. Some years later Jackie Gleason, inspired by The Kid, made a delightful film entitled <...( read more)
William H. Macy does a fantastic job playing a poor schmoe. In this case, he is an alchoholic mute who has a child left in his care.
If it were me, I would have turned her over to social services after that first night but he tries to do the right thing. It was both sad and i...( read more)
A very sweet made for TV film, lifted above the average by William H Macy as the grump with a heart.
william h macy will never top his roles in the likes of fargo boogie nights and magnolia but hes found a place in tv movies, door to door,,a slight case of murder,, panic,, and focus being notable aceptions, and heres another, in which he co wrote as a mute, who comes into contac...( read more)
interesting film that william h macy pulls off really well, considering he never speaks a word...
remake of jacky gleason film"gigot" but quite well made.watch both and you decide.
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