The Night Listener (2006) on Netflix
R20061h 31mCrimeMysteryThriller
A publisher gives radio host Gabriel Noone a memoir by Pete Logand, a teenager. Gabriel, separated from his partner Jess, calls the boy and Donna, the social worker who adopted him.
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Gabriel Noone hosts a late-night radio show, and he and his partner Jess have separated. A publisher friend brings him a memoir written by Pete Logand, a teenager who describes years of abuse by his parents and their friends. Pete has been diagnosed with AIDS, and Donna Logand, his former social worker, has adopted him. Gabriel starts calling the boy and Donna.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Night Listener (2006)
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After the novel appeared, Maupin's friend Tad Friend, a New Yorker writer, began an investigation, and 20/20 reported that the photo of Anthony sent to supporters was a childhood photo of a New Jersey traffic engineer, who was shocked to find it represented as the face of Anthony Godby Johnson.- Armistead Maupin's novel behind the film grew out of a 1992 memoir he was sent, supposedly written by fourteen-year-old Anthony Godby Johnson, who claimed years of abuse by his parents. Maupin trusted it because it carried a foreword by his friend, novelist Paul Monette, and an afterword by Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
- Maupin's partner Terry Anderson, who co-wrote the film's screenplay, had occasionally spoken with the boy, and a phone conversation with the boy's mother struck him by how much the two of them sounded alike.
