Amy (1998)
Amy (Alana De Roma) is traumatized because she saw her rock-star dad get electrocuted (and burst into flame) onstage, and Amy thinks she was responsible for him slipping and hitting the live wire that killed him. She wasn’t — she just thought she was. Since then, she’s been deaf-mute — but she can hear other people when they sing, and she can sing, too… which is discovered by the cranky musician who lives across the street.
One night, Tanya (Rachel Griffiths) goes to work and leaves Amy with the family down the street (notice Kerry Armstrong, late of “Prisoner: Cell Block H” as the mom?) when the drunken, nasty dad of the family bursts in, starts a fight, and scares Amy out into the street. The whole neighborhood goes searching for her; she ends up in a state home for the night, but escapes, and finally finds her way to an outdoor rock concert. It’s there that Tanya and the musician (and a friendly shrink) find her, just as she’s reliving the trauma of her father’s death, and has a breakthrough. Amidst a lot of screaming and crying (and making her understand she didn’t kill her father), Amy can now hear and speak like anybody else.
Back home, there’s an impromptu street party.
(It’s better than it sounds.)
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