What is significant about the 1989 TV-movie Bridge to Silence?

Answer:
It brought together Phyllis Frelich and Marlee Matlin, both of whom had achieved fame for their portrayals of Sarah Norman. This TV-movie was about the conflict of a hearing mother (Lee Remick) and her recently-widowed Deaf daughter (Matlin), but even more fascinating was the chemistry between the two Deaf actresses—who were playing Deaf actresses. Cast members of the fictional Actors’ Theatre of the Deaf, they were shown rehearsing for an ASL production of The Glass Menagerie—Frelich playing Amanda Wingfield and Matlin playing Laura. Matlin and Frelich had a reunion of sorts in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production, Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008), with Frelich playing Matlin’s mother.