List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $13.46YOU SAVE $1.49!
Buy it
DVD The Burning Bed
This controversial, 1984 made-for-television movie gave Farrah Fawcett her first true showcase as an actress. Playing an abused wife who kills her monstrous husband (Paul Le Mat), Fawcett demonstrates a facility with the moral ambiguities of the story, which concerns the painful but fascinating questions of where justice lies. Fine support from Richard Masur and Grace Zabriskie, and the assured direction is by Robert Greenwald (Xanadu. --Tom Keogh
Feminist trash classic where a woman is made a heroine for burning her husband alive, instead of going through proper channels for her so called abuse complaints that were manufactured by some Hollywood screen writer who thought he would make more money if he told a lop sided story.
It's a feminist twisted and completely one-sided fiction of a Francine Hughes real life case, as well as any other case involving a wife killing her husband.
Francine Hughes got away on a female-only "battered wife syndrome", which is basically a license for wifes to murder their husbands whether or not there was immediate provocation or immediate danger of harm. Burning a man while he's asleep is NOT self-defense!
More on battered wife syndrome, by a woman Michelle Malkin:
(...)
Walking on eggs
Farrah Fawcett does an excellent job in this battered wife movie. Unless you have experienced family violence, you may not appreciate the realness of this story.
Should there be any reviews not offering 5 stars, then it may well be assumed that the reviewer is a misogynist (woman hater).
Why goodness me, there we have two misogynists already.
Hilarious melodrama!
Farrah gives a stand-out performance in what many consider her best role. The film goes out of its way to portray her husband as the bad guy. Ladies please, the man just wanted him some beer! And if he didn't want his wife going to no school, then that was his choice. While he did take it to the extreme, I have to agree that she deserved a whuppin' for making him a TV dinner. After a long hard day o' drinkin' a mans got to have some supper! Grace Zibriskie adds to the comedy playing LeMat's mom who begs Farrah to stay with him cause that's what a woman does. She also gets beat, too.
Farrah Fawcett and James Russo are outstanding for the characters they portray. The movie description: James Russo is a serial rapist and Farrah Fawcett plays the victim who manages to escape her would be (masked) rapist in the beggining of the movie. However, he still has her purse carrying her personal information and address. Marjorie goes to the police to report her attempted rape and the police inform her "it would be hard to press charges on an unknown assailant" Basically James Russo returns a week or so later back into Marjorie's life at her home to finish what he started. (now he is unmasked, and enters her home). The scenes are brutal: however if you manage to stomach Farrah Fawcett being attacked mentally, and physically you will then witness how she manages to turn the tables... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Farrah Fawcett - James Russo Director(s): Robert M. Young DVD Release Date: Released the 16 April 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
List Price: $14.95 Your Price: $13.46YOU SAVE $1.49!
Buy it
Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for her role in this drama, based on an actual incident. She plays a good-time girl who, while out for a night of fun at a poolroom, lets things get out of hand. Before she knows what's happening, the men she's been flirting with have pinned her down for a gang rape. The story centers on the efforts of a district attorney (Kelly McGillis) to press her case, in spite of a wall of silence by the participants--and then to take the unusual step of going after the witnesses as accomplices. Foster is outstanding as a tough, blue-collar woman who persists in what seems like an unwinnable case, despite the prospect of character assassination for standing up for herself. --Marshall FineMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Kelly McGillis - Jodie Foster Director(s): Jonathan Kaplan DVD Release Date: Released the 16 April 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $12.99 Your Price: $11.69YOU SAVE $1.3!
Buy it
This 1991 thriller by Joseph Ruben (True Believer) works up to a point: Julia Roberts plays an abused wife who fakes her death and starts anew under a different identity in Iowa. Her psychopathic husband (Patrick Bergin) figures it out and stalks her and her new boyfriend (Kevin Anderson). The best part of the film is the moody isolation of Roberts's life with Bergin. Ruben ingeniously stakes out the story by presenting what looks like an ideal life between the two--a nice house on the ocean, a seemingly healthy sex life, etc.--and then, whammo! Vital to the plot but less interesting is everything afterward, but that's less an inherent script problem than it is obvious studio pressure to push Roberts as a cute star. There's even a sequence where the actress tries on a series of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Julia Roberts - Patrick Bergin Director(s): Joseph Ruben DVD Release Date: Released the 02 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $14.98 Your Price: $7.49YOU SAVE $7.49!
Buy it
