Mockingbird Don't Sing
Starring:Melissa Errico, Joe Regalbuto, Sean Young, Michael Lerner, Kim Darby, Tarra Steele, Laurie O'Brien, Ed Brigadier, Sharon Madden, Jack Betts, Ben Messmer, Lora Anne Criswell, Michael Azria, Josh Boyd, Bryn Larsen, John Valdetero, Timi Prulhiere, Con Schell, Billy Maddox, Sara Van Horn
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
Product Type: DVD
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From the age of one and a half to thirteen, Katie, was imprisoned by her parents. Locked in a room, tied and immobile, bound to a "potty-chair", Katie endured years of isolated silence punctuated by brutality. When Katie's case finally came to public attention she was moved to a hospital in Los Angeles, where it was discovered she had never been taught to speak. Katie was an anomaly, a modern day Wild Child. Medical and psychological doctors descended on the girl in droves, often with selfish motivations in this heart-breaking story. With stunning care to detail Mockingbird Don't Sing tells Katie's story of imprisonment, discovery and her difficult road to joining the human family as a beautiful young woman.
Average customer rating:
- Why not help the real Genie??
- waw
- XTRO goes Lifetime with mixed results.
- A Wonderful movie to show to a Sociology class
- A tragically over-looked story...
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Mockingbird Don't Sing
Starring: Melissa Errico , Joe Regalbuto , Sean Young , Michael Lerner , and Kim Darby
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport
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- The Forbidden Experiment (Kodansha Globe)
ASIN: B00008L3ZX
Release Date: 2003-05-27 |
Description
From the age of one and a half to thirteen, Katie, was imprisoned by her parents. Locked in a room, tied and immobile, bound to a "potty-chair", Katie endured years of isolated silence punctuated by brutality. When Katie's case finally came to public attention she was moved to a hospital in Los Angeles, where it was discovered she had never been taught to speak. Katie was an anomaly, a modern day Wild Child. Medical and psychological doctors descended on the girl in droves, often with selfish motivations in this heart-breaking story. With stunning care to detail Mockingbird Don't Sing tells Katie's story of imprisonment, discovery and her difficult road to joining the human family as a beautiful young woman.
Customer Reviews:
Why not help the real Genie??.......2006-03-11
Instead of spending money to make rediculous re-enactments of this horrific and true story, why not try to help and perhaps the real Genie- who is now around 48 years old and in a home for retarded adults. It makes me sad the real person was exploited and then thrown away when public fascination wore off. Why this child was put back in the care of one of her abusers (who then gave her up to more abuse in foster care) boggles my mind. The selfishness of her mother was Genie's true downfall.
waw.......2005-10-16
i watched m.b.d.s with myu friends this morning and the story is so powerfull i cant believe someone would just rent the dvd for the actors/actrese that were in it i think that is awfull and that they show no real emotion towards people
XTRO goes Lifetime with mixed results........2004-12-14
Mockingbird Don't Sing (Harry Bromley Davenport, 2001)
This film was, shall we say, something of a surprise. To date, the only other Harry Bromley Davenport film I've been able to track down has been his first, the brilliant, gruesome sci-fi shocker XTRO. Upon finding out he'd done a film about "Genie," the famous feral girl discovered in California in 1970, I expected something quite different than what I got.
Genie (whose name in the film is Katie Standon) spent the first thirteen years of her life being brutally abused by her father, before her mother (played with chilling effectiveness by Better Off Dead's Kim Darby) left him, took her, and went to the social services office looking for welfare benefits. The woman at the desk took one look at the child, called the cops, and the rest is history. The film focuses mostly on what happened after the child was rescued from her initial environment; for a number of years she was in the care of a number of doctors and observers from Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles. The main protagonist in this film is Sandra Tannen, real name Susan Curtiss (played by singer Melissa Errico), a linguistics grad student from UCLA assigned to document Genie's ability to learn language despite having passed what is known in psychology as the critical period; screenwriter Daryl Haney (who, oddly, usually writes softcore movies) and Davenport based the movie around, according to the DVD's liner notes, Curtiss' version of the story.
Therein lies the movie's major failing. Even without reading the liner notes, it's obvious that Curtiss (or Sandra Tannen) is the hero of this piece, the one untarnished person in the child's life. This leads to the story feeling incredibly biased, as well as having the other characters sometimes act in rather bizarre fashion (for example, Darby's character goes from throwing her out of the house one second to launching into a lengthy explanation of her husband's mental state the next, then slips right back into evil-bitch mode once the explication is done). Thus, the very structure of the film itself should be leading the viewer to question the authenticity of the story which, despite being obviously docudrama, is marketed as a true story.
Definitely not Davenport's best work, but an interesting artifact in the world of film. ***
A Wonderful movie to show to a Sociology class.......2004-11-11
I am a college student in a introduction to sociology course. We learned about Genie, who this movie is based on, and everyone in the class was extremely interested in it. If you are interested in sociology, human development, feral children, or linguistics, this movie is a must see. While it does come across as a "made for TV" movie, that aspect does not take away from its message.
A tragically over-looked story..........2003-12-15
The thinly veiled story of 'Genie' the '70s L.A. Wild Child, Mockingbird Don't Sing discards the more poignant elements of the story for tacky made-for-TV sentiment (this is at its worst in the 'Lifetime network-esque' attempt to explain why the little girl was abused in the manner as she was found). It's unfortunate that 'Genie' has gone the way of the more intriquing characters in tabloid obscurity. The once hauntingly beautiful mute who inspired such stories as 'Nell' and 'Wildflower' now resides in a nursing home forgotten by the public and professionals who at one time hailed her as a miracle. If you're truly interested in her story, avoid this pricey DVD and go read one of the numerous books on the subject. Hopefully, Hollywood will eventually get some apt minds behind this story and produce a better film.
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Average customer rating:
- Why not help the real Genie??
- waw
- XTRO goes Lifetime with mixed results.
- A Wonderful movie to show to a Sociology class
- A tragically over-looked story...
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Mockingbird Don't Sing [Region 2]
Starring: Melissa Errico , Joe Regalbuto , Sean Young , Michael Lerner , and Kim Darby
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport
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- Genie: a Scientific Tragedy
- The Wild Child
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- Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children
- The Forbidden Experiment (Kodansha Globe)
ASIN: B0000DZRF0 |
Customer Reviews:
Why not help the real Genie??.......2006-03-11
Instead of spending money to make rediculous re-enactments of this horrific and true story, why not try to help and perhaps the real Genie- who is now around 48 years old and in a home for retarded adults. It makes me sad the real person was exploited and then thrown away when public fascination wore off. Why this child was put back in the care of one of her abusers (who then gave her up to more abuse in foster care) boggles my mind. The selfishness of her mother was Genie's true downfall.
waw.......2005-10-16
i watched m.b.d.s with myu friends this morning and the story is so powerfull i cant believe someone would just rent the dvd for the actors/actrese that were in it i think that is awfull and that they show no real emotion towards people
XTRO goes Lifetime with mixed results........2004-12-14
Mockingbird Don't Sing (Harry Bromley Davenport, 2001)
This film was, shall we say, something of a surprise. To date, the only other Harry Bromley Davenport film I've been able to track down has been his first, the brilliant, gruesome sci-fi shocker XTRO. Upon finding out he'd done a film about "Genie," the famous feral girl discovered in California in 1970, I expected something quite different than what I got.
Genie (whose name in the film is Katie Standon) spent the first thirteen years of her life being brutally abused by her father, before her mother (played with chilling effectiveness by Better Off Dead's Kim Darby) left him, took her, and went to the social services office looking for welfare benefits. The woman at the desk took one look at the child, called the cops, and the rest is history. The film focuses mostly on what happened after the child was rescued from her initial environment; for a number of years she was in the care of a number of doctors and observers from Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles. The main protagonist in this film is Sandra Tannen, real name Susan Curtiss (played by singer Melissa Errico), a linguistics grad student from UCLA assigned to document Genie's ability to learn language despite having passed what is known in psychology as the critical period; screenwriter Daryl Haney (who, oddly, usually writes softcore movies) and Davenport based the movie around, according to the DVD's liner notes, Curtiss' version of the story.
Therein lies the movie's major failing. Even without reading the liner notes, it's obvious that Curtiss (or Sandra Tannen) is the hero of this piece, the one untarnished person in the child's life. This leads to the story feeling incredibly biased, as well as having the other characters sometimes act in rather bizarre fashion (for example, Darby's character goes from throwing her out of the house one second to launching into a lengthy explanation of her husband's mental state the next, then slips right back into evil-bitch mode once the explication is done). Thus, the very structure of the film itself should be leading the viewer to question the authenticity of the story which, despite being obviously docudrama, is marketed as a true story.
Definitely not Davenport's best work, but an interesting artifact in the world of film. ***
A Wonderful movie to show to a Sociology class.......2004-11-11
I am a college student in a introduction to sociology course. We learned about Genie, who this movie is based on, and everyone in the class was extremely interested in it. If you are interested in sociology, human development, feral children, or linguistics, this movie is a must see. While it does come across as a "made for TV" movie, that aspect does not take away from its message.
A tragically over-looked story..........2003-12-15
The thinly veiled story of 'Genie' the '70s L.A. Wild Child, Mockingbird Don't Sing discards the more poignant elements of the story for tacky made-for-TV sentiment (this is at its worst in the 'Lifetime network-esque' attempt to explain why the little girl was abused in the manner as she was found). It's unfortunate that 'Genie' has gone the way of the more intriquing characters in tabloid obscurity. The once hauntingly beautiful mute who inspired such stories as 'Nell' and 'Wildflower' now resides in a nursing home forgotten by the public and professionals who at one time hailed her as a miracle. If you're truly interested in her story, avoid this pricey DVD and go read one of the numerous books on the subject. Hopefully, Hollywood will eventually get some apt minds behind this story and produce a better film.
Average customer rating:
- Why not help the real Genie??
- waw
- XTRO goes Lifetime with mixed results.
- A Wonderful movie to show to a Sociology class
- A tragically over-looked story...
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Mockingbird Don't Sing
Starring: Melissa Errico , Joe Regalbuto , Sean Young , Michael Lerner , and Kim Darby
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport
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- Genie: a Scientific Tragedy
- The Wild Child
- NOVA: Secret of the Wild Child
- Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children
- The Forbidden Experiment (Kodansha Globe)
ASIN: B00003CYGD |
Customer Reviews:
Why not help the real Genie??.......2006-03-11
Instead of spending money to make rediculous re-enactments of this horrific and true story, why not try to help and perhaps the real Genie- who is now around 48 years old and in a home for retarded adults. It makes me sad the real person was exploited and then thrown away when public fascination wore off. Why this child was put back in the care of one of her abusers (who then gave her up to more abuse in foster care) boggles my mind. The selfishness of her mother was Genie's true downfall.
waw.......2005-10-16
i watched m.b.d.s with myu friends this morning and the story is so powerfull i cant believe someone would just rent the dvd for the actors/actrese that were in it i think that is awfull and that they show no real emotion towards people
XTRO goes Lifetime with mixed results........2004-12-14
Mockingbird Don't Sing (Harry Bromley Davenport, 2001)
This film was, shall we say, something of a surprise. To date, the only other Harry Bromley Davenport film I've been able to track down has been his first, the brilliant, gruesome sci-fi shocker XTRO. Upon finding out he'd done a film about "Genie," the famous feral girl discovered in California in 1970, I expected something quite different than what I got.
Genie (whose name in the film is Katie Standon) spent the first thirteen years of her life being brutally abused by her father, before her mother (played with chilling effectiveness by Better Off Dead's Kim Darby) left him, took her, and went to the social services office looking for welfare benefits. The woman at the desk took one look at the child, called the cops, and the rest is history. The film focuses mostly on what happened after the child was rescued from her initial environment; for a number of years she was in the care of a number of doctors and observers from Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles. The main protagonist in this film is Sandra Tannen, real name Susan Curtiss (played by singer Melissa Errico), a linguistics grad student from UCLA assigned to document Genie's ability to learn language despite having passed what is known in psychology as the critical period; screenwriter Daryl Haney (who, oddly, usually writes softcore movies) and Davenport based the movie around, according to the DVD's liner notes, Curtiss' version of the story.
Therein lies the movie's major failing. Even without reading the liner notes, it's obvious that Curtiss (or Sandra Tannen) is the hero of this piece, the one untarnished person in the child's life. This leads to the story feeling incredibly biased, as well as having the other characters sometimes act in rather bizarre fashion (for example, Darby's character goes from throwing her out of the house one second to launching into a lengthy explanation of her husband's mental state the next, then slips right back into evil-bitch mode once the explication is done). Thus, the very structure of the film itself should be leading the viewer to question the authenticity of the story which, despite being obviously docudrama, is marketed as a true story.
Definitely not Davenport's best work, but an interesting artifact in the world of film. ***
A Wonderful movie to show to a Sociology class.......2004-11-11
I am a college student in a introduction to sociology course. We learned about Genie, who this movie is based on, and everyone in the class was extremely interested in it. If you are interested in sociology, human development, feral children, or linguistics, this movie is a must see. While it does come across as a "made for TV" movie, that aspect does not take away from its message.
A tragically over-looked story..........2003-12-15
The thinly veiled story of 'Genie' the '70s L.A. Wild Child, Mockingbird Don't Sing discards the more poignant elements of the story for tacky made-for-TV sentiment (this is at its worst in the 'Lifetime network-esque' attempt to explain why the little girl was abused in the manner as she was found). It's unfortunate that 'Genie' has gone the way of the more intriquing characters in tabloid obscurity. The once hauntingly beautiful mute who inspired such stories as 'Nell' and 'Wildflower' now resides in a nursing home forgotten by the public and professionals who at one time hailed her as a miracle. If you're truly interested in her story, avoid this pricey DVD and go read one of the numerous books on the subject. Hopefully, Hollywood will eventually get some apt minds behind this story and produce a better film.
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