Tell Me Where It Hurts

I loved this film, it gives you hope, Connie does not know where she belongs anymore. Is she just a wife and mother, is there nothing else for her to look forward to now that she is middle aged and her children are grown.

Anyone who feels they are suffering the empty nest syndrome, and the "does my hubby still love me" syndrome, watch this movie and have some hope.

Just saw this movie and enjoyed it very much.

Very stripped down production values if you will. Mostly shot in living room/kitchen kind of settings with an occasional foray out into other locales. Hospital room, college classroom, office building, Chinese restaurant.

A housewife (played by Stapleton) gets a suggestion from her college age daughter that Stapleton should invite her girlfriends over and have a discussion group. Let their hair down kind of thing and talk about their lives. So they do.

Nothing overly dramatic happens as such but you get to see women from the early 70s discuss their lot in life.

Sorvino (as Stapleton's husband) playing a taxi driver is appropriately confused and threatened but it's handled in a subtle manner.

What I particularly liked about the movie was how down to earth it was. None of the typical over the top Hollywood silliness.

Rather it's real women, all housewives without outside jobs struggling to find a voice.

The ending, in the aforementioned Chinese restaurant between Stapleton & Sorvino is particularly touching.

Amazing to find a TV movie from the 70s that didn't need CGI or outrageous storylines to tell a sweet and real story of early 70s women AND men figuring out the new social order.

Very enjoyable film.