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Post by tc on Aug 5, 2019 18:20:02 GMT
This movie: "A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story". 1989, which would have made me 13 or 14 when I saw it. I was absolutely devastated by this movie and everything she went through - based on the real life events of Tracey Thurman. There's a scene where her estranged husband is brutally attacking her - kicking her, stabbing her, hitting her, etc. in a circle of onlookers including, eventually, a police officer and no one does ANYTHING. She survived. And her story changed a lot of domestic violence laws. Whenever someone asks me, "What's your number one fear?" I always answer with "Being attacked by a knife."
The second one would be "Cape Fear". The 1991 version. I saw it in the theatre. It was probably the first crime/thriller movie I'd seen in the theater. I've only seen a handful since. I was nieve, but that movie scared me beyond repair.
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Post by birukitty on Aug 5, 2019 18:29:25 GMT
Oh my gosh, how on earth can I forget "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"? I have a terrible memory, that's how. Add that one to my list please!
Also "Roots". That was one I watched when it came out.
Oh, another one that came out in 1978 on TV as a mini-series over a few nights called, "Holocaust" that starred Joseph Bottoms, a very young Meryl Streep (young as in vs. today-she looked to be in her late 20's), Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, plus many more. Does any one else remember this? Joseph Bottoms and James Woods play brothers that are part of a Jewish family in WWII Germany and James Woods character marries Meryl Streep who is Christian at the beginning of the film. You see the wedding and the two families celebrating. As the series goes on it's about how the in the Christian family Meryl's brother becomes part of the Nazi's (don't remember if his is just a grunt or how high he goes) and they throw out Meryl who joins her husband and his Jewish family in trying to survive. It's all about the two different sides of two German families which is made clearer in the book. The mini-series (film) though is incredible in showing (at least back then) the horror and what the Jewish family had to go through to try to survive.
Meryl Streep is of course incredible in the film as she tries to do what she can to help her new family and husband survive. It broke records back then as to how many households watched it. I remember in my family we all sat around the TV and watched it after dinner each night. I was 18 at the time, and my siblings were 16, 13, and 10. Of course back then nothing graphic was shown on TV and we didn't have DVR's to tape anything so it was watch it each night or miss it.
Another TV movie I remember very well that touched me was called, "The Burning Bed" with Farrah Fawcett in it. Oh my gosh! If anyone dares to say that Farrah Fawcett was just a pretty face that couldn't act I dare them to watch this film. Having a background as a former abused wife (not to worry it was over 25 years ago) this touched so many cords in me and much of what is shown on the screen are things I remember although thank goodness my experience wasn't anywhere near as severe.
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Post by birukitty on Aug 5, 2019 18:42:00 GMT
No TV series or movies but a book and a play. The book is On the Beach, about the aftermath of a WW3 in which the northern hemisphere has been wiped out due to nuclear war. The book follows a group of people in Australia as they live their lives and await the inevitable nuclear radiation to reach them over the course of several months. I was 12 and it completely freaked me out. The play is 6 Characters in Search of an Author and I was just fascinated with the notion of how we are all the heroines of our own story but may appear as a villain in someone else's story, and which view of the character is the 'correct' one. It really impacted how I think about human nature and our interactions. Catmom-I just put "On the Beach" on hold at my local library. I love these types of books (disaster, end of the world, etc.) so hopefully at 59 it won't freak me out as much as it did you when you were 12. I'm sorry that happened. |
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Post by giatocj on Aug 5, 2019 18:53:28 GMT
Ugh...Sophie's Choice has traumatized me for life.
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Post by picotjo on Aug 5, 2019 19:30:45 GMT
Oh, another one that came out in 1978 on TV as a mini-series over a few nights called, "Holocaust" that starred Joseph Bottoms, a very young Meryl Streep (young as in vs. today-she looked to be in her late 20's), Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, plus many more. Does any one else remember this? I do! After seeing this movie I started learning more about the Holocaust. |
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 5, 2019 20:28:31 GMT
I thought of a few more. They were ones I was shown in school (think after school specials- and man I loved those,)
One was Blood on the Asphalt or something else similarly charming, all about the dangers of drunk driving. You can bet your sweet bippy I never had even one drink if I was driving and never will get in the car with someone who has been drinking,
The other was Cipher in the Snow. It still makes me teary eyed thinking about it. It was about a boy who was on a school bus who just gets up and asks the bus driver to let him off, then he just collapses in the snow and dies. The rest of the show is about how no one knows who he is or remembers anything about him, not his teachers, not his classmates, no one. It was just awful and even though I am painfully shy I always made sure I never snubbed anyone in school and tried to include other kids. I would force myself to talk to kids who were by themselves during group up times. Even now as a teacher I work really hard on kids including everyone and being kind. I try to make sure each kid in my class has at least one kid they can pal around with.
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Post by Anita on Aug 5, 2019 21:06:34 GMT
The Normandy Beach scene of Saving Private Ryan. I was gutted sitting through that, and just the thought that people had to live through that horror in real life made me cry for days. I get teary just thinking about it. I just cannot fathom coming out the other side of that experience in real life without lifelong PTSD. I have never been able to watch it again.
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Post by 505scrapper on Aug 5, 2019 21:36:06 GMT
I was pretty sheltered up to my pre-teen years so I don't recall any really scary or traumatizing shows. However, there was an episode of Fantasy Island back in the late 70s/early 80s. It had Melissa Sue Anderson (she played Mary Ingalls on Little House on the Prarie). I don't remember the premise of the storyline, but I do remember it being scary to me. I'm guessing if I saw it now, it wouldn't be so bad.
More recently, I started watching When Calls the Heart on Netflix. I won't post spoilers, but the last episode of Season 5 had me crying through the entire episode.
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Post by jman8606 on Aug 17, 2024 3:04:28 GMT
Breach of Conduct with Peter Coyote and Courtney Thorne-Smith. It totally disturbed me how that colonel raped not just Courtney Thorne-Smith's character but the wives of his many officers before him. The man was a total narcissist. He was the one who was delusional nor her. He was The Donald Trump of military officers. In the end he took his own life. But I wish he would have faced justice for his many crimes. Sexual abuse, sexual assault, delerection of duty as an officer, rape,and murder. He murdered that corporal whom she confided in by having his driver run him over. I wiki kid have gladly pulled the switch on both of them.
LA Law Lie Harder (1990) the episode where Abby defends A couple trying to return their violent and mentally disturbed adopted son. That episode made me stop watching LA Law for a while. I understand why they did it but nonetheless it was still very sad.
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Post by ntsf on Aug 17, 2024 4:28:53 GMT
I watched wizard of oz on our portable black and white tv at age 4.. scared me totally!!! (I did not realize that movie had color til I saw it in college)..
then, at 6 I read the book and realized the movie left out all the good parts!! I was disappointed.
so my theory ever since is that the book is better than the movie. only once (and I can't remember which) this was not true.
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Post by katlady on Aug 17, 2024 5:12:46 GMT
Now this is what you call an "old thread". Almost exactly 5 years old. What was the one post wonder above searching for??
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Post by christine58 on Aug 17, 2024 10:57:32 GMT
Now this is what you call an "old thread". Almost exactly 5 years old. What was the one post wonder above searching for?? No idea but it’s interesting to go back and read some of the responses. |
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Post by librarylady on Aug 17, 2024 14:09:38 GMT
I reread this thread.
I don't see scary movies because 1. I don't want to be haunted by the images. 2. The "lingering effect" that several of you mentioned. The Birds scared the heck out of my younger sisters and they were mid teenagers at the time.
Actors: We were big fans of the TV series News Radio. When Phil Hartman was murdered, it deeply saddened me. I still can't explain my reaction, but it was almost as if he were someone I knew who had died. (a terrible loss of a talented actor) I didn't weep or wail, but just had deep sorrow for several days.
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