Amy (1981)

Taglines: She taught them to speak. They taught her to love.

Amy Medford (Jenny Agutter) is a dutiful housewife of the early 1900s. But when her husband objects to a wife with a career, Amy leaves her husband and comfortable lifestyle. She goes on to devote her life to teaching sight-and-hearing-impaired students at a tradition-bound special school. This film betrays its Disney-studio origins with an audience-rousing action climax, in which Amy’s students take on a team of “normal” kids at a football game. Amy was produced by onetime Hollywood leading man Jerome Courtland.

Amy is a 1981 American drama film directed by Vincent McEveety and starring Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Kathleen Nolan, Chris Robinson, Margaret O’Brien, Nanette Fabray and Lucille Benson. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions, distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, and written by Noreen Stone.

Directed by: Vincent McEveety
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Kathleen Nolan, Chris Robinson, Margaret O’Brien, Nanette Fabray, Lucille Benson
Screenplay by: Noreen Stone
Production Design by: John B. Mansbridge, Mark W. Mansbridge
Cinematography by: Leonard J. South
Film Editing by: G. Gregg McLaughlin
Set Decoration by: Roger M. Shook
Music by: Robert F. Brunner
Distributed by: Buena Vista Distribution
Release Date: March 20, 1981