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Sybil (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Genre | Drama, Documentary/Biography |
Format | Multiple Formats, NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned, Subtitled |
Contributor | Daniel Petrie, Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sally Field, Brad Davis, Jacqueline Babbin, Joanne Woodward |
Language | English |
Runtime | 3 hours and 6 minutes |
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Sybil (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Based on a true story, this powerful and influential miniseries debuted in 1976 to extraordinary response. Sally Field–in an Emmy career-turning performance-portrays Sybil Dorsett, a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Joanne Woodward-Emmy nominated for her role-plays the understanding and compassionate psychiatrist who helps Sybil confront her horrific past and eliminate her demons, which are wrapped up in more than 15 distinct personalities.
In addition to Field’s Emmy win, Sybil picked up three other Emmys, including Outstanding Special Comedy or Drama.
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Sybil (1976) (DVD) Based on a true story, this telefilm debut in 1976 to extraordinary response. Sally Field - in an Emmy Award winning and career-turning performance - portrays Sybil, a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder who develops over 16 distinct personalities in order to cope and escape haunting memories of her harrowing childhood. Joanne Woodward plays the understanding and compassionate psychiatrist that helps Sybil confront her horrific past and eliminate her demons.
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The word "landmark" is fairly used in the case of Sybil: this 1976 TV movie brought new frankness to television, it raised the quality bar for the made-for-television movie, and it utterly changed the career of a future Oscar-winning actress. The film was based on the bestselling nonfiction book about a multiple-personality patient and her exhaustive therapy. It opens with a brilliant series of scenes that suggest how a young woman named Sybil (Sally Field) experiences unexplained blackouts, which brings her to the attention of a psychiatrist, Dr. Wilbur (Joanne Woodward). The film unfolds around the searching therapy sessions, laced with flashbacks to Sybil's toxic childhood. There's also a tentative romance between the lonely Sybil and a manchild (Brad Davis) who lives across the alley. Most notably, of course, there are the appearances of Sybil's alternate personalities, who express her strangled emotional life. Stewart Stern's sensitive script seems to flow organically from one scene to the next, and director Daniel Petrie frequently allows the camera to observe the acting acrobatics in long, challenging takes.
Woodward, who won an Oscar for playing a multiple-personality patient in The Three Faces of Eve, is all nurturing warmth as the steadfast doctor. But really this film was a sober coming-out party for Sally Field, who astonished viewers at the time by erasing all memories of Gidget and The Flying Nun, the bubblegum roles she'd mostly been known for. Field's work is anguished but non-actor-y, and despite the character's hidden personalities, she seems as clear as day in her performance. The production won four Emmys, not surprisingly including nods for Field, Stern, and Outstanding Special (Drama).
The 187-minute movie takes up one disc; the second disc has informative featurettes about the making of the film. Examining Sybil is an absorbing hour-long documentary with comments from Field and Woodward, as well as executive producer Peter Dunne. It is dominated by the spellbinding storytelling of Stewart Stern, who developed the screenplay by spending time with the real Dr. Wilbur and listening to tapes of her sessions with Sybil. His tale of Sally Field's unlikely audition triumph is a small movie in itself. The Paintings of Sybil presents a generous selection of paintings by the real Sybil (who became a professor of art), along with recollections by one of her friends. Something listed on the DVD cover as "Sybil Therapy Session" is misleadingly titled, suggesting some kind of actual footage or transcript of the real Sybil and her treatment; in fact, it's Stewart Stern describing the harrowing process of listening to the doctor's tapes. The real Sybil (now deceased) remains protected, as she should. --Robert Horton
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.52 ounces
- Item model number : 70145
- Director : Daniel Petrie
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned, Subtitled
- Run time : 3 hours and 6 minutes
- Release date : July 18, 2006
- Actors : Sally Field, Joanne Woodward, Brad Davis
- Subtitles: : French, Spanish
- Producers : Jacqueline Babbin
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified
- Studio : WarnerBrothers
- ASIN : B000EHQU0S
- Writers : Flora Rheta Schreiber
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #12,908 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,100 in Drama DVDs
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I've always responded with something like, that's inappropriate, you obviously have no idea what Cybil lived through to make her that way.
I found the movie difficult to watch. But worth it. It provides an understanding that would otherwise go unknown to so many. That woman triumphed through extreme tragedy that no one should ever have to live through. I hope she's doing well today
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This 3 hour tv miniseries is about the true story of a woman that had suffered most of her life with multiple personalities named Shirley Ardell Mason, but who's name was changed for the novel and film to Sybil Dorsett. and tells of her relationship with a female psychiatrists who's determined to help her.
Masterful acted, we were in tears at times. It really help bring an understanding to this illness, and show that these are people who suffer and to be pity, not criticized.
If this film had been released theatrically it would have won the Oscar for best picture. It did win the Emmy for best picture and best actress.
Don't miss this film.
This 2 disc special edition. Comes with the complete 187 min film on disc 1 and disc 2 contains a three part retrospective documentary
Sybil est l'histoire d'une petite fille qui est torturée par sa mère psychotique... Le père et le médecin impuissants ne protègent pas l'enfant...
Scènes de thérapie éblouissantes. Les différents personnages interviennent remarquablement bien.
Sybil parvient à se reconstruire et se réconcillie avec tous ses personnages intérieurs et devient art thérapeute.
3h d'émotion. Film en version originale sous-titré.
Beide Filme zeigen (unterschiedliche) Aspekte des therapeutischen Umgangs mit Psychotrauma-Überlebenden mit DIS (Multipler Persönlichkeit). In demjenigen von 1976 war die historische Therapeutin Cornelia Wilbur beratend beteiligt. Die schauspielerische Leistung von Sally Field kann ich fast nur als übermenschlich bezeichnen! - Aber auch Joanne Woodward als Dr. Wilbur ist wunderbar in ihrer therapeutischen Sensibilität, wenngleich für heutiges therapeutisches Verständnis teilweise zu "bemutternd". Aber auch der neue Film ist sehr gut (****).
Insgesamt geben beide Filme grundsätzliche und angemessene Einblicke in die Situation von Betroffenen mit DIS und die entsprechende traumatherapeutische Situation. Leider sind die traumatischen Umstände in Wirklichkeit noch viel schlimmer - und die Therapie dauert nicht die zwei oder drei Stunden eines Films, sondern fünf bis zehn Jahre.
Als diese historische Therapie stattfand, gab es noch nahezu keinerlei therapeutische Erfahrungen, geschweige denn publizierte Arbeiten zum Thema "Multiple Persönlichkeit". Hier hat sich - zum Glück - vieles verändert/verbessert.
Ab und an gibt es medialen Aufruhr um das zugrundeliegende Buch (Flora Schreiber) und die Authentizität des "Falles". Darum muß man sich nicht so sehr kümmern, finde ich. Der Inhalt steht für sich.
TRAUMA BERATUNG LEIPZIG
DISSOZIATION UND TRAUMA