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Geraubte Kindheit

Originaltitel: Just Ask My Children
  • Fernsehfilm
  • 2001
  • Not Rated
  • 1 Std. 31 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Virginia Madsen in Geraubte Kindheit (2001)
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuIn 1982, parents Scott and Brenda Kniffen are arrested on false accusations of ritualistic child abuse; their children are taken into custody and manipulated into believing the lies being to... Alles lesenIn 1982, parents Scott and Brenda Kniffen are arrested on false accusations of ritualistic child abuse; their children are taken into custody and manipulated into believing the lies being told about them. Based on a true story.In 1982, parents Scott and Brenda Kniffen are arrested on false accusations of ritualistic child abuse; their children are taken into custody and manipulated into believing the lies being told about them. Based on a true story.

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    • Arvin Brown
  • Drehbuch
    • Deborah Serra
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Virginia Madsen
    • Jeffrey Nordling
    • Graham Beckel
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      • Arvin Brown
    • Drehbuch
      • Deborah Serra
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      • Virginia Madsen
      • Jeffrey Nordling
      • Graham Beckel
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    Virginia Madsen
    Virginia Madsen
    • Brenda Kniffen
    Jeffrey Nordling
    Jeffrey Nordling
    • Scott Kniffen
    Graham Beckel
    Graham Beckel
    • Denver Dunn
    Robert Joy
    Robert Joy
    • Sam Bennis
    Barbara Tarbuck
    Barbara Tarbuck
    • Marilyn Kniffen
    Casey Biggs
    Casey Biggs
    • Michael Snedeker
    John Billingsley
    John Billingsley
    • Andrew Gindes
    Adrian Sparks
    Adrian Sparks
    • Dick Kniffen
    Scott Paulin
    Scott Paulin
    • Kevin Conway
    Maree Cheatham
    Maree Cheatham
    • Corene Oliver
    Ryan Wilson
    Ryan Wilson
    • Brian Kniffen (Age 6)
    Cody Dorkin
    Cody Dorkin
    • Brandon Kniffen (Age 9)
    Dan Byrd
    Dan Byrd
    • Brian Kniffen (Age 9-12)
    Scott Bailey
    Scott Bailey
    • Brandon Kniffen (Age 15-21)
    Gregory Smith
    Gregory Smith
    • Brian Kniffen (Age 16-18)
    Deirdre O'Connell
    Deirdre O'Connell
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    Diana Castle
    Diana Castle
    • Vera Bradley
    Kitty Swink
    Kitty Swink
    • Lisa Short
    • Regie
      • Arvin Brown
    • Drehbuch
      • Deborah Serra
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    10pruemarch

    What a great and eye-opening movie.

    This movie really made me think about injustice and the parents love for their children. One day i hope to have children myself and i hope that the children i have will stand up for me and i never have to go through what the family involved in this spectacular piece of cinema went through.

    The acting and script was very convincing- i felt like i was watching the actual event first-hand, not a re-construction of events by trained actors. The courage of the family will be in my mind forever, it WAS awesome!!! probably the best true-life film i have ever set eyes on. Congratulations to the director for creating this masterpiece, it was a real credit to it's genre.
    10Andreas_N

    A 10 is too low a rating for this movie

    I have never before in my entire life seen a movie which dealt so strongly and so stirringly with the most profound and most common human emotion of all: love within a family. I felt emotionally attached to the Kniffen family as if I were a member of their kin. The emotional roller-coaster this movie provides is substantial and will not let go of you. This is because of the unbelievable injustice and the outrageous mistake committed by the legal system of the United States.

    Just Ask My Children is a true story, elaborating on the tragedy of the Kniffen family in 1982. This was the time of a nation-wide witch-hunt that tore dozens of families apart and brought many innocent parents into jail. Scott and Brenda Kniffen (Jeff Nordling and Virginia Madsen) live a happy life with their two boys Brandon, age 9, and six-year-old Brian. When wrong allegations of child abuse cause a state-wide hysteria, they find themselves in a harrowing nightmare. Without a shred of evidence, the Kniffens are arrested and their two sons are taken away from them and put into the custody of social services. There the impressionable boys are brainwashed, confused and utterly manipulated by a malicious prosecutor in his relentless ambition to put the Kniffens into prison. In court they testify against their own parents, which convinces the jury beyond the reasonable doubt that Brenda and Scott Kniffen are guilty of committing the heinous crimes they are accused of in the indictment. They are sentenced to 240 years each, the longest sentences ever imposed in Kern County. Scott and Brenda spend twelve years behind bars, suffering and praying to God, while their boys are put from foster home to foster home, confused and emotionally scarred.

    The movie gains all its strength from this single, but tremendously strong theme. While following the developments of the story, the tragedy and the hardships imposed on this innocent couple makes everyone unwilling to believe that such an outrageous thing could have actually happened not yet 20 years ago. The reference to medieval witch trials occasionally surfaces in the story and makes the audience even more aware of how merciless the system can be in case of utter failure.

    The toughest and most brilliant aspect this movie deals with is how the family is effected by the verdict. The story of the boys, as they mature and question their own past is wonderfully adapted to their emotional turmoil. Scott's parents and their continuous fight to prove the innocence of their son and Brenda is stunning in its passion and desperate commitment. The movie features various heart-breaking scenes that will leave you emotionally drained and makes you aware of how much suffering the family has to bear. The tragedy hits you so strong because you know the truth, and you feel so sorry for the entire family, good and decent people now thoroughly despised by the public and labeled as child molesters.

    Brian and Brandon are played by Ryan Wilson (Cold Creek Manor) and Cody Dorkin at the beginning, then by Dan Byrd and Scott Bailey. Finally Gregory Smith (The Patriot) plays 18-year-old Brian, Scott Bailey again 21-year-old Brandon. The passing of the years makes the audience understand how long this struggle for justice went on and how desperate Scott and Brenda sought freedom to embrace their sons. The young actors portraying the two boys, above all Ryan Wilson and Cody Dorkin, do a great job. Ryan Wilson in particular made it straight into my heart, due to his performance in the court room, but also when he is yearning for his mom. The scene when Scott and Brenda are allowed to see their boys one last time is nothing but tough, because it shows the tragedy of the separation in all its brutality. You see this family, how much they love each other and how strongly they yearn for just being together again, but you know that they will remain torn apart.

    Just Ask My Children will affect you, even more so if you consider it being based on a true story. It makes you mad at the relentless prosecutors and shows with smashing credibility how atrociously the system can fail. The emotional scenes are likely to force tears into your eyes, as you automatically associate and identify with Scott and Brenda. The story is really tough, not suited for kids and an emotional roller-coaster that will leave you terrified. This movie deserves a 10, no doubt about that.
    cooltmd

    One Of The Best Liferime Original Movies !!!

    "Just Ask My Children" is based on the true story of a modern-day witch-hunt in which a couple is falsely accused and jailed for molesting their own children.

    When Brenda (Virginia Madsen) and Scott Kniffen (Jeffrey Nordling) are asked to testify at a custody hearing on behalf of their friends, they and their two sons, Brandon and Brian, are sucked into a nightmare. Their friends' hysterical relative has accused both sets of parents of molestation and peddling child pornography - and the local D.A.'s office is intent on appearing tough on child abusers. They badger Brian and Brandon into testifying against their mom and dad, with tragic results. For 12 horrible years, Brenda and Scott languish behind bars, separated from the sons they love and fighting to prove their own innocence.
    8Joxerlives

    Great and disturbing film

    Odd now in these days of such professional police investigation to see the portrayal of the dark days of the 80s when the art was just in its' infancy. The story really falls down on whether we believe the children and can they lie about this? If the kids are telling the truth then the parents deserve everything they get but if they are lying...?

    In one scene the mother (the ever gorgeous Virginia Madsen) asks can the police just come into your home and take your kids away? And the answer of course is that if they have reason to believe you're abusing them then of course they can. But this was at a time when it was considered that children couldn't lie about such things and people didn't realise how they could be easily lead and influenced during interviews. It's also a good example of the importance of independence in the judicial system, the prosecutors desperate to please public opinion by getting convictions and then reconsidering when public opinion shifts in the opposite direction. Perhaps the scariest thing is when the prosecutor receives the court order to give the defence access to the boys and he just chooses to ignore it? Surely the judge should order HIM to be arrested for that?

    Another film I'd recommend in the same vein is Indictment which is excellent.
    cathleen19802002

    Good Story but tragic

    I can not believe that this could happen to anyone. I feel very sorry for the family's that had to endure this. To spend 14 years in jail because some whino woman wanted custody of SOMEONE elses kids is not right.

    Whatever happened to this Mary person that did this to these poor people.

    She ruined a family life , took good parents away from their children and ruined these kids lives. Made these poor kids die inside and not feel any remorse.

    I wish there was something I could do for this family that had to go through all of this and I hope that the people who decided to ignore the facts and prosecute because of allegations was purely wrong and i hope they rot for what they did.

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      After they were found to have mishandled many of the abuse cases of the early 1980s, the legal officials involved in the case faced much public scrutiny and many lost their jobs; as the film's ending text states, one of the lawyers who had coached the Kniffen boys into confession did indeed end up working for minimum wage as a cashier afterwards, while others continued to work within the court system until at least 2009, facing little to no serious consequences for the way they responded to the cases. As was later revealed after the making of this film, most of the legal team involved with the prosecution had read the now-debunked true-crime novel "Michelle Remembers", about a case of alleged satanic-ritual abuse syndrome.
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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 10. September 2001 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
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      • Hearst Entertainment Productions
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