Sybil (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Actor: Brad Davis, Jane Hoffman, Joanne Woodward, Martine Bartlett, Sally FieldDirector: Daniel Petrie
Brand: FIELD,SALLY
Cinematographer: Mario Tosi
Editor: Michael S. McLean
Producer: Jacqueline Babbin
Producer: Peter Dunne
Producer: Philip Capice
Writer: Flora Rheta Schreiber
Writer: Stewart Stern
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 187 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- 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 psych
DVD Reviews of Sybil (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie. It's a true story. I watch it a lot. there is two versions of this movie. This version is the best. DVD Review: sybil.dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
i'm ever indedited to this d.v.d as it was this film that made me realise what i was suffering from,i purchased this d.v.d to educate those who are on my journey for healing. Its a brilliant d.v.d. and thank you again for the availability of being able to purchase it.DVD Review: Sybil !! the best movie out there ...
Summary: 5 Stars
this is the best movie I seen in years , Sally field still rocks ...
get the DVD you will be surprise of much stuff you will find on the 2nd dvd , you wont regret of buying this dvd.
DVD Review: "The Best Television Movie To Ever Come Down The Pike!"
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently viewed "Sybil" starring Joanne Woodward and Sally Field and have to testify that this is the best piece of television work that has ever been produced. Although made in 1976 the film holds up remarkably well due to the excellent script and acting by its leads. This movie is still used today in psychology classes in colleges throughout the country because of its excellent portrayal of multiple personality disorder and the problems of the human mind.
Field broke away from her TV good-girl image with this film and stars as the real-life Sybil who suffered from sixteen different personalities when she became an adult. The movie delves into the reason Sybil suffered as she did; she had a very abusive mother who suffered from a severe case of schizophrenia and edured Sybil with constant emotional and physical abuse when she was a little girl. The film dramatizes how a doctor, played superbly by Woodward, tries to help Sybil cope with her mental disorder. Never before or since has a TV movie been so honest and blunt with social issues such as child abuse and mental disorders. The fact that this film was actually shown on network television in 1976 is amazing in itself as the film is one of the most graphic and horrifying in dealing with the hell that a young child went through.
"Sybil" was released many years ago on VHS in an edited version, but this "30th Anniversary DVD Edition" is outstanding as it comes in a two disc set. Disc one features the film in its entirty, uncut, and cleaned from the original studio print and it looks impeccable. Disc two has a ton of bonuses featuring informative interviews with Field, Woodward, and Stewart Stern who wrote the script based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. An intersting tidbit to "Sybil"; the network, NBC, wanted a known star to portray the lead character. NBC wanted Natalie Wood, but the writer and producer of the piece wanted an unknown actress to star in the piece.
Sally Field would win her first Emmy award for "Sybil" and the movie would propel her to superstar status as being one of the best actresses in Hollywood. Joanne Woodward won an Oscar as Best Actress back in the 1950's in "The Three Faces of Eve', playing a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. Brad Davis, of "Midnight Express" fame, played Sybil's boyfriend.
On a final note Martine Bartlett, who played Sybil's evil mother Haitti Dorsett, gives one of the most chilling and horrifying portrayals of a demented mother ever put on screen. Her performance will haunt you for days upon viewing "Sybil".
In 2007 a remake of "Sybil" aired on CBS starring Tammy Blanchard and Jessica Lange and it too is an amazing film. Not as excellent as the original, the 2007 remake features a wonderful cast and a great script. That version has yet to be put on DVD.
DVD Review: Comforting
Summary: 5 Stars
If someone is having trouble facing personal demons, this movie is particularly comforting in the way it ends. Sybil apparently was terrified to confront her feelings and her past, yets when she finally did so, it was tremendously healing. This movie can help give one the courage to confront one's feelings growing out of the past.
Description of Sybil (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Tells the true story of a woman who coped with a horrific childhood by developing sixteen personalities and the doctor who was determined to help her.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-JUL-2006
Media Type: DVD
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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