Sybil

[DanielJamesSimon]

I saw this movie for the first time this week. It was amazing. I loved it. It's powerful, moving, and disturbing, yet triumphant in the end. I loved it so much that I saw it again two days later.

Sally Field's performance was extraordinary.

Anyone else seen it/like it? And does anyone know/have any opinions on the accuracy of the story? I tend to believe it's more true than not but there are many sceptics who say it's mostly or entirely an embellishment.

 

[soblessed53]

Hi,you are so right about what a "POWERFUL" movie this is.Haven't seen it in years,but have never forgotten it. I got this info from the IMDb movie site-

Based on a true story, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur (Joanne Woodward), an experienced psychiatrist, is faced with one of her most stressful cases ever. Sybil Dorsett (Sally Field) is a late-20-year-old school teacher, who suffered such a harrowing upbringing, she consequently developed over 16 different personalities.The real "Sybil" was recently identified as Shirley Ardell Mason, an art teacher who died in 1998 at the age of 75 in Lexington, Kentucky

So yes,it is a true story. There is also a book. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075296/

 

[DanielJamesSimon]

Hi,you are so right about what a "POWERFUL" movie this is.Haven't seen it in years,but have never forgotten it. I got this info from the IMDb movie site-

Based on a true story, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur (Joanne Woodward), an experienced psychiatrist, is faced with one of her most stressful cases ever. Sybil Dorsett (Sally Field) is a late-20-year-old school teacher, who suffered such a harrowing upbringing, she consequently developed over 16 different personalities.The real "Sybil" was recently identified as Shirley Ardell Mason, an art teacher who died in 1998 at the age of 75 in Lexington, Kentucky

So yes,it is a true story. There is also a book. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075296/

Thanks soblessed.

Yep, it certainly is based on a true story. In fact, Sybil's real name was Shirley Mason. The cynics, though, say that Shirley Mason did not have multiple personalities, or at the very least did not have 16.

I really want to read the book now that I've seen the movie.

 

[soblessed53]

Wow you must really have guts,LOL! I have never forgotten how harrowing Sybil was to watch,it is not one you even want to see again,but I sure couldn't bear to read the book.

 

[symphonyb]

The book is quite eye opening. The film doesn't depict all she had inflicted upon her by a mentally ill mom. I watched the movie once. Not something I'd want to watch again or read again.

 

[soblessed53]

Wow I know I couldn't take more of her mother than the movie told,No Way!