A woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder is found during therapy to have suffered child abuse in this fact-based story.A woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder is found during therapy to have suffered child abuse in this fact-based story.A woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder is found during therapy to have suffered child abuse in this fact-based story.
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Manuel DePina
- Barkeep
- (as Manuel De Pina)
Brendan Dillon
- Shannon
- (as Brendan T. Dillon)
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- GoofsWhile fighting with Truddi, Norman threatens to fly to Scotland to "dig up Robert Lewis Stevenson." But Robert Lewis Stevenson died and was buried in Samoa.
- Quotes
Truddi Chase: [an unnamed identity referring to Truddi] She's gone, Stanley. She's gone.
- Alternate versionsAlso released as a truncated 107 minute "movie" version.
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In all fairness, the subject is not easily portrayed
on a TV screen. While this film is not a masterpiece, it at least exposes the audience to Chase's condition, and having read her book "When Rabbit Howls, the Troops for Truddi Chase", the real material was probably edited and censored from the beginning. The real story was horrific; child sexual abuse which could never be translated and diluted for TV.
While MPD is controversial and rare, the book certainly made a plausible argument for Chase's diagnosis. Another reviewer mentioned Kenneth Bianchi ("The Hillside Strangler") Let us be reminded that Ms. Chase was a patient, not a serial killer, in danger of harming herself, NOT society. This is the problem with stories of this nature, the public cannot comprehend, lumps it as sensationalistic, and dismisses it entirely.
Basically, if you found the film too unbelievable, read the book. You will learn this was Chase's diagnosis, she survived a horrible ordeal, and the film does show the audience her tactics for survival. Her story is an admirable one, and you may also want to watch "Little Girl Fly Away" with Mare Winngham, or "Sybil" for comparable stories. Although the film may not be scientifically accurate, it at least provides a partial documentary for the otherwise unaware audience. 8/10
While MPD is controversial and rare, the book certainly made a plausible argument for Chase's diagnosis. Another reviewer mentioned Kenneth Bianchi ("The Hillside Strangler") Let us be reminded that Ms. Chase was a patient, not a serial killer, in danger of harming herself, NOT society. This is the problem with stories of this nature, the public cannot comprehend, lumps it as sensationalistic, and dismisses it entirely.
Basically, if you found the film too unbelievable, read the book. You will learn this was Chase's diagnosis, she survived a horrible ordeal, and the film does show the audience her tactics for survival. Her story is an admirable one, and you may also want to watch "Little Girl Fly Away" with Mare Winngham, or "Sybil" for comparable stories. Although the film may not be scientifically accurate, it at least provides a partial documentary for the otherwise unaware audience. 8/10
- MarieGabrielle
- Aug 5, 2006
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By what name was Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (1990) officially released in India in English?
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