A Promise to Carolyn

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1996
1h 34min

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Swoosie Kurtz and Delta Burke in A Promise to Carolyn (1996)

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaTwo feuding adult sisters from a dysfunctional family decide to finally uncover the truth about a childhood trauma, the sudden death of their third sibling, from back in the 1950's.Two feuding adult sisters from a dysfunctional family decide to finally uncover the truth about a childhood trauma, the sudden death of their third sibling, from back in the 1950's.Two feuding adult sisters from a dysfunctional family decide to finally uncover the truth about a childhood trauma, the sudden death of their third sibling, from back in the 1950's.

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twisted_sista

Poignant

This movie really gripped me from beginning to end. Its about two sisters who want to bring their baby sisters killer(their stepmother) to justice. The flashback scenes i found to be quite disturbing, the stepmother is a really wicked person and it saddens me to know this thing happens every day all over the world.

10mkr-1

This movie grabs hold and won't let go

I Loved this movie! I was so saddened at what happened to that darling little girl by her step mother, but I think this movie is rated a 10 because it grips you so much that it stays with you long after the movie is over. I watch this movie everytime it comes on TV. I especially like true to life movies and the fact that the real people involved in this case were involved in making sure that the information is all correct and true made it even better.

4=G=

A contrived, over-acted mess.

"A Promise to Carolyn" tells of the investigation of two middle aged women into the death of their little sister 30+ years earlier. A contrived mess fraught with herky-jerky flashbacking, over-acting, and poor technical consulting in hypnosis, law, forensics, etc., this flick is an obvious fabrication with one purpose; to jerk the audience around emotionally. Should be most appreciated by soaps junkies.

At this writing the IMDB user rating of 7.8 computed from 37 votes is grossly distorted by 16 votes, almost half, giving this mediocre film a maximum score of 10 with no semblance of a Gaussian distribution.

lindseycioffi

There is a fine line between discipline and abuse

There is a fine line between discipline and abuse. What Jolene did to those little girls was abuse. She beat that baby to death for crying because the shoes were too tight and she wouldn't stop squirming while she was trying to get them on... It isn't the baby's fault that the shoes were too tight. The difference between abuse and discipline is discipline is a quick slap on the behind for doing something wrong. Abuse is slapping the child for doing nothing at all. The other kids should have done whatever they could have done to try to stop their step-mom from killing their baby sister. The flashbacks were so sick... they made me cry. I would have taken them kids away from her whether someone told me about it or not.

8princess-12

Favorable approximately 100 word review that tries not to give too much away.

This is the story of two sisters in their mid-forties (played by Delta Burke and Swoozie Kurtz) one of whom is convinced that the death of their baby sister 40 years earlier was not an accident. She convinces her younger sister, who is still on friendly terms with their father and step-mother, to help her look into the death which neither of them remembers clearly. The film is surprisingly no tearjerker, but rather well thought out, well written and well acted, particularly the scene in which Delta Burke is hypnotized and regressed to the day of Carolyn's death.

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This movie is a true story about Carolyn McMorris who was murdered by her stepmother, Colleen Stubblefield, on December 5, 1955. She had two older sisters, Kay who was then 5-years old and Debra, then 3-years old. The children lived with their stepmother and biological father, Bull, in the Ace Motel in Lubbock, Texas at the time of the murder.

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Francie Harper: [Standing in a closet looking for something to wear] No, I'm not talk to them. I ain't having a thing to do with this.
[she goes back to the mirror table where Kay and Debra are standing and sits down]
Kay: Why not?
Francie Harper: Because it's over and done!
Kay: Francie, don't do this!
Francie Harper: I'm not doing nothing. It's in the Lord's hands now which is where it belongs. Why drag it out now?
Kay: You're afraid it's all gonna come out about you, ain't you?
Francie Harper: ME? I don't have nothing to be ashamed of! I did everything I could about this and you know it too! I even took you all to the D.A.'s office the day after the funeral and what happened? You both just sat there, too yellow to say a word.
Kay: We were kids! We were scared!
Francie Harper: Well, you can tell yourself that all you want to, but you can't turn back the clock. What's done is done.
Debra: What about after?
Francie Harper: After what?
Debra: After it was all over and Carolyn was in the ground? How could you take us back to Jolene's knowing what she done?
Francie Harper: Now, wait just a minute...
Debra: Were we that bad, Mama?
Francie Harper: It was not like that!
Debra: Then what was it? How could you take us back there year after year after we begged you not to?
Francie Harper: You know, I heard this over a million times, but I don't recall no such a thing. As I recalled, you LOVED Jolene. You still do. Giving her little cards and everything, calling her MOM!
Debra: You never gave a damn about us, didn't you?
Francie Harper: That's not true.
Debra: Then WHAT IS? Why can't you start telling the truth for once in your life so I can stop wasting my time on you? That you're gonna pretend to be a mother to me someday because that's all I really wanted.
[Kay looks at Debra in amazement]
Debra: And I wanted it so badly that I ended up clinging to the woman who killed my baby sister!
[Francie slams down a brush and looks away]
Debra: Come on, Kay, let's go.
[They leave, and then Francie looks up and in their direction. Kay and Debra walk out of the house and onto the front yard]
Kay: Whoa! Where did that come from?
Debra: It's been coming for a long time!
Francie Harper: [Coming out of the house] Wait! Will you just wait?
[she runs down the front walk towards the girls]
Francie Harper: Okay, all right, you made your point. I will go in and talk to these people if that's what you want. I'll even testify for you if it ever goes that far, but... there's just one thing we ought to talk about.
Kay: What's that?
Francie Harper: Well, I don't want to go in there looking like... poor white trash. I mean, I do have to make a good impression, you know.