I love a good surprise, especially when it comes in the form of a small film that I have never seen, or even heard of. “The Wool Cap” is a perfect example of one of those films. It originally aired on TNT last year, but somehow I missed it. I don’t know that happened as the film stars William H. Macy, who is perhaps one of the greatest character actors around. Macy has a face that is generally well known to film audiences as he tends to have co-starring roles in big budget films. People know the face, but not always the name.

In “The Wool Cap”, Macy stars as Gigot, the superintendent of a broken down apartment building. He also happens to be a mute, which cause him no end of problems as far as being pushed around by everyone. He is horribly taken advantage of, simply because of the fact that he cannot verbally fight back. He finds himself caretaker to a young girl (Cherise Boothe), who is left in his care one night by what can be lightly referred to as her ‘mother.’