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| 6/7/08 (Sa.) | 8:00 PM | CBS | N/A |
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| SYBIL (CBS)
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BROADCAST
HISTORY:
6/7/08
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STATUS:
telefilm/mini-series in the can |
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DESCRIPTION:
(from CBS's press release) SYBIL, a new television movie starring Academy Award winner Jessica Lange ("Tootsie"), Emmy Award nominee Tammy Blanchard ("Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows") and Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee JoBeth Williams ("The Big Chill") to be broadcast Saturday, June 7 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. SYBIL is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Flora Rheta Schreiber. It is the true story of a young woman who suffers from dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder), a psychological condition where two or more distinct personalities exist within the same person as the result of severe trauma and abuse inflicted during childhood. In the movie, Sybil (Blanchard) is introduced to Dr. Cornelia Wilbur (Lange), a psychiatrist who begins treatment after Sybil attempts suicide. During their sessions, Sybil confides to Dr. Wilbur that she frequently loses her memory and cannot account for large blocks of time. With the help of her doctor, Sybil slowly remembers the physical, emotional and sexual abuse inflicted on her as a child by Hattie (Williams), her mentally disturbed mother. As Sybil starts to recall her troubled past, she reveals 16 separate and distinct personalities, each varying in age and personal appearance, which she created in order to cope with the cruelty she suffered as a child. Throughout the course of Sybil's treatment, Dr. Wilbur becomes committed to helping Sybil face the memories which haunt her so that her fractured personality can be healed. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Jessica Lange as Cornelia Wilbur
· JoBeth Williams as Hattie
· Tammy Blanchard as Sybil
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Flora Rheta Schreiber as BOOK
· John Pielmeier as WRTR
· Joseph Sargent as DIR
· Mark Wolper as EP
· Norman Stephens as EP
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GENRE(S):
· based on a book
· mow
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Norman Stephens Productions
· Warner Bros. Television
· Wolper Organization, The
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