I'm doing a school project and I could really use a list of movies that depict emotional child abuse.
2007-04-05 10:46:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Try SECONDHAND LIONS where the mother dumps the kid with two uncles that don't want him and then, when he starts to like it there, wants to remove him. It's especially bad because she's got an abusive boyfriend and chooses to stay with the abuser even though he hurt her son. When the son asks "Has he hit you yet?" the mother snarls "Mind your own business!"
It didn't show the abuse as a child but PSYCHO's Norman Bates didn't become a psycho by chance. His mother was very emotionally abusive to him since childhood.
Oh SYBIL with Sally Field and THE THREE FACES OF EVE are both about a woman who had a terrible childhood. I know they showed emotional and physical child abuse in the version with Sally Field, SYBIL.
I'd say MRS. DOUBTFIRE qualifies because the mother was not letting the kids see the Dad to punish Dad but didn't see how it was hurting the kids.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS had emotional abuse.
2007-04-05 10:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Radio Flyer
The Poison Tree
Sybil
Girltown
Legacy
Scared Silent
Girl, Interupted
Prince of Tides
Nuts
Mommy Dearest
Bastard Out Of Carolina
Stand And Deliver
Girl Talk
2007-04-05 10:51:58 · answer #2 · answered by Molly 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Great Santini with Robert Duvall
2007-04-05 10:50:18 · answer #3 · answered by Brett S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mommy Dearest
2007-04-05 10:50:36 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. Worm is back 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come on be smart that guy is a jerk. There is really a better person out there for you. He is just using you and manipulating you and as long as you let him he will and you will never have any money or no control over what you do it will be all him. So if you want to be your own person then leave him alone.
2016-05-18 00:32:16 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thirteen
2007-04-05 10:54:03 · answer #6 · answered by julianstancescu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter the first movie
2007-04-05 10:50:15 · answer #7 · answered by Dr Universe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could try 'Thirteen' though it's not what I'd call deliberate abuse...it's actually what a girl does when her family faces poverty and such...bad company at school...and the like.
2007-04-05 10:51:37 · answer #8 · answered by newtonpagli 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flowers in the Attic
2007-04-05 10:55:11 · answer #9 · answered by whatever2006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not Without my Daughter
2007-04-05 10:49:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋