The Man Without a Face

A beautiful, touching, heartwarming story about a boy living in a dysfunctional family with his mother and two sisters, all of whom posess above average intelligence, and consider him to be the "retard" of the family. His only dream is to join the military academy, mostly to get away from his family. He meets a disfigured man (Mel Gibson), the local "freak" of the town. After learning that the man used to be a teacher, he asks for tutoring. In time, not only does the man become the boy's tutor, he becomes his best friend. 10/10

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Nothing I can really take out of this to use in the real world except not to stare at people that look different from the norm, it makes them feel terrible.

I have been watching alot of your movies, and really understood the depth of this movie. It made me wonder how people can be so mean and not see past all the scars, to the true person inside. I feel this movie shows a lot about the heart of a person. The inside of a human being and what they have to offer. Teaches us not to look for skin deep beauty. Although, outer beauty is wonderful to have, I believe it is more important to have inner beauty. This is only one of many movies I have seen. I thought all the Lethal Weapon movies were great. I like that you really make a movie come alive. I bet you have a lot of fun making some of your movie. I think it's awesome that you are directing now. My family and I are planning to go see "The Passion of Christ." I know it will be good, because I have really enjoyed all your movies.

When I first read The Man Without a face years ago upon finishing I imidiately dashed ouver to Blockbuster to see if the mopvie of my new favorite book measured up. WEll, I must say i was terribly disapointed. The felt like the movie dwelled on almost an invisible part of the book - Justin taking advantage of Charles. This tured the movie into one that disgusted me, and one I outwardly abhored. I didnt understand why the writers butchered the most marvelous parts of the book. I still don't. But having seen the movie years later on tv i realized (although I was still disapointed in the butchery of my favorite parts, but I saw what a tremendous job the actors did with their parts. Mel is my favorite, and although I wish he had a better script his acting alone is worth seeing the movie for. BUT if you see the movie and like PLEASE read the book, so you can realize how much more there is to those characters and this story.

It's a ok movie, I've seen better with Mel Gibson.

I was attempting more of Mel Gibson. The story is very touching thought.

Well I haven't read the book but I really liked the movie. It was touching, gripping and very well acted. One of Mel Gibson's most stunning roles and thumbs-up to his directing. It will make you tear up at times and laugh at times- in short, it's a feel-good movie..Make sure not to miss it.

A film about a man with no friends and no face. A film about a man in hiding,trying to hide himself from the world.Thats a story that sounds like me and thats one reason I like this film and not only that it has a great cast too.Like Mel Gibson and his face and Mel really knows how to act in this film and due to this it shows another side to us about him.The film is also directed by Mel Gibson and its his first time too,and the cinematopography in the film is great.Due to this it shows Mel has a directing side to him that we had never seen before.The film also has a great musical score to it and a touching story.I give this film a eight out of ten score.

Funny, he can ruffle the worlds feathers with The Passion, but back in '92 he cant play a homosexual. Oh that's right, he's a catholic. it has to be Hollywoodized like Philadelphia, which was clearly a joke. Too bad they butchered the book. Don't get me wrong, I loved the movie, but when you take the main focal point, the core, away from the story, well then it's really not that story any longer is it. It was just rewritten to develop into something completely different. Imagine the studios, anyone of them, save an Indy label maybe, having a film about a boy and a man having a sexual relationship with each other. Heads would roll.