After a long gestation, the CBS TV movie adaptation of the novel SYBIL starring Jessica Lange and Tammy Blanchard airs tonight: Saturday June 7, 2008 at 8pm ET/PT.
Note, this film is based on the original SYBIL novel by Flora Rheta Schreiber and not the legendary 1976 NBC TV movie adaptation that starred Sally Field and Joanne Woodward.
Though the novel is indeed based on real people, the novel and its contents were debunct several years ago. Some of this is touched upon on the 2-disc DVD Special Edition of the 1976 TV movie adaptation. Yes, I know its upsetting to read this, but it is what it is -- a doctor with a marketing agenda and a 'great' fabricated subject for a novel.
Regardless, it is indeed a film to watch for the performances. It has already aired in the UK and word is quite positive, especially regarding Tammy Blanchard's performance.
I agree with you, Bobby. But Tammy Blanchard is quite a good film actress. Her work in ME AND MY SHADOWS is impeccable and even if THE GOOD SHEPARD was a big ol' bore, she shone through and put on quite a great performance. I'll see this on DVD, not a fan of Lange, but Blanchard is fab.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
From what I've read that story was never completely debunked. It was challenged and had its detractors but was not totally discredited. If someone can post a link that discusses it being a totally false story, I would like to see it.
Probably because he or she feels like saving money and doesn't feel the need to have a special edition of the film and is content with just having the film itself?
I just walked in about 20 minutes ago, but this is good so far. Blanchard bears a strange resemblance to Sally Field. I rented the original from netflix a few weeks ago but couldn't find the time to watch the entire thing.
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I'm thinking about legally changing my name to Lizzie Curry...
I got caught up in Celtic Thunder on PBS and totally forgot all about this.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
OK, one scene really made me laugh -- when Sybil's mom appears in a mirror and pulls Sybil in. I thought: "How 'Poltergeist' of them." What made it even funnier is that I didn't even recognize that it was Jo Beth Williams in the role at that point.
Tammy Blanchard was phonominal! She is an amazing actress! Her Sybil was just...WOW! I really believed all 16 personalities were different people! She gave each one quirks and mannerisms that compltetely seperated them from eachother. Amazing!
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
Ugh, don't get me started. The case was shown to be not a true DID case. Why remake it and fool even more people?
Edit: There's a paper written by a therapist who reviewed the tapes and found that Dr. Wilbur basically implanted the personalities during hypnosis. The abuse was real, Sybil did have some psychological problems, but the DID was iatrogenic.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
"Edit: There's a paper written by a therapist who reviewed the tapes and found that Dr. Wilbur basically implanted the personalities during hypnosis. The abuse was real, Sybil did have some psychological problems, but the DID was iatrogenic."
Sounds like an ever better film
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
No one would ever dare make that--it's too controversial.
Still, there are so many equally interesting DID cases out there that haven't yet shown to be false. Truddi Chase, Joan Frances Casey, Marcia Cameron, etc. Why not make a movie based on one of them?
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!