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Vickie and Peggy
Dr. Wilbur receives a late night call from someone who identifies herself as Vickie and says Sybil is about to jump out a window of the Staten Hotel in Harlem. Dr. Wilbur rescues Sybil, who denies knowing Vickie. The personality of 9-year-old Peggy emerges, babbling about and "the white house", screaming "I have to get out". Peggy is remembering Dr. Quinoness and others in white coats in a white room, holding her down to administer ether for a tonsillectomy. She's terrified of her mother and begs a nice young doctor to take her home with him so she can be his little girl. As the nice doctor is leaving she bangs on the window. Sybil puts her hand through the hotel room window.
 
Richard J Loomis
Sybil and Richard J. Loomis (Brad Davis), her neighbor in the next building whose window faces hers, have been observing each other curiously. As Sybil is walking down the street, Richard invites her to take a horse carriage ride in the tourist rig he drives during the daytime. He says he's noticed her painting at night and playing with dolls, and she denies she does that. The personality of Vickie emerges, speaks in French and tells him about her spoiled life in France. Richard accepts it as part of her charm.
 
Dr. Wilbur meets Vickie and Marsha
Sophisticated 18-year-old personality Vickie shows up to keep Sybil's appointment with Dr. Wilbur. She is dressed in an attractive business suit, wearing white gloves, speaks French, and calls herself Victoria Antoinette Chaillot and says her mother lives in Paris. Peggy tries to emerge but is pushed back by Vickie, who explains that the other personalities keep the memories that Sybil is unable to handle. Dr. Wilbur asks Vickie who the other personalities are. Vickie says Marsha is going to kill Sybil someday. One of the personalities plays the piano, but Vickie won't tell her name. Marsha shows up for the next appointment, saying she is the one who tried to kill Sybil at the hotel. All the personalities allow Dr. Wilbur to photograph them. Marsha draws scenes from her nightmares.
 
[edit] Vanessa
Richard Loomis invites Sybil to accompany him to his night time job as a street musician. The musician personality of Vanessa emerges to go with Richard. His son Matthew (Tommy Crebbs) says he knows Sybil from watching her through the window, and, "That's not Sybil. Sybil stayed home." Vanessa says her mother wanted to be a concert pianist but was forced to stay home and demonstrate pianos in the family music store. As Richard is performing, a white-haired woman causes the personality of Peggy to emerge and she runs away. Richard finds her in a public restroom where she is drawing a picture of a hanging light bulb. Sybil emerges and tells Richard of her childhood friend Danny who danced and sang like Fred Astaire, but who is actually another one of Sybil's personalities.
 

Vanessa, Peggy and Marsha visit Dr. Wilbur
The personality of Vanessa shows up for Sybil's next appointment with Dr. Wilbur, singing and playing the piano while she talks about Richard Loomis. She tells Dr. Wilbur that some of the personalities are boys, and that Richard had actually kissed the one named Mike. Peggy begins to emerge. She talks about the green kitchen and "the hands" and the music on the piano. Sybil emerges. Dr. Wilbur plays the session's tape, and when a voice that sounds like her mother Hattie speaks, Sybil runs to a corner and sits in a thumb-sucking fetal position on the floor.
 
Christmas
Vickie shows up for an appointment during the Christmas season and tells Dr. Wilbur it's all falling apart. The grandmotherly personality of Mary thinks she's in heaven. Marsha is talking about suicide. Sybil has invited Richard for Christmas dinner. The personalities made Dr. Wilbur a Christmas card, but Sybil made everything purple. Vickie has brought Dr. Wilbur paintings and says she cannot tell Sybil, because the paintings are done at night and hid in a secret closet shelf that Mike made. Dr. Wilbur hypnotizes Vickie and asks about the purple. The memory that comes forth is one of repeated abuses by Hattie, and of being locked in the wheat bin in the barn where Sybil uses her purple crayon to scratch on the inside of the bin so someone will know she had been there.

Sybil and Richard and his son Matthew have Christmas dinner together, with Richard spending the night in Sybil's apartment. Sybil awakes in the middle of a nightmare and babbles about Dr. Wilbur. Richard panics and calls Dr. Wilbur who warns him about the multiple personalities. Dr. Wilbur arrives to find Richard has just rescued Sybil from an attempt to jump off the roof. While Dr. Wilbur sedates Sybil, she babbles about being in love with Richard. Sybil comes home one day and sees Richard's apartment is empty. Sybil feels deserted.
 
Denial and discovery
Sybil arrives for an appointment and tells Dr. Wilbur it's all been a lie, that she doesn't have multiple personalities.

While on a business trip to Chicago, Dr. Wilbur talks to Willard Dorsett who admits to all of Sybil's childhood injuries, but denies his late wife Hattie inflicted them. He mentions that he once committed Hattie to a hospital where she was diagnosed with Paranoid schizophrenia, but says the doctors were wrong.

Dr. Wilbur drives to Willow Corners and asks a tractor farmer (Gordon Jump) how to find Dr. Quinoness (Charles Lane), who pulls Sybil's records which confirms all the injuries. Dr. Quinoness gives Dr. Wilbur a frightening account of extensive scar tissue he found while examining Sybil for a bladder problem. He is beset with guilt for not having taken action to protect Sybil from abuse.

In the big white house Dr. Wilbur visits the green kitchen with its swinging light bulb, just like drawn in the pictures. She goes to the barn and finds the wheat bin with the purple crayon scratches inside. Dr. Wilbur takes the piece of wood with the purple crayon scratches back to New York to show Sybil all those things really happened.

For memory healing, Dr. Wilbur drives Sybil back to Willow Corners. While sitting outdoors beneath a tree painting, Peggy emerges and remembers how every morning in the green kitchen her mother tied her feet spreadeagle to a broom handle and hoisted her feet-up to the light to give her a cold water disinfectant enema, and hurt her private parts with knives and Button hooks to teach her what men do with women when they grow up. She would tie Sybil to the piano and play Dvorák making Sybil hold her water until the very last note is played. Dr. Wilbur hypnotizes Sybil to introduce her to all her other selves so she may become whole again.
 
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Edited and unedited versions
The film, originally 198 minutes long, was initially shown over the course of two nights on NBC in 1976. Due to high public interest, the VHS version of Sybil, released in the 1980s, was edited, with one version running 122 minutes and another, extended version running 132 minutes. Several key scenes, including Sybil's final climactic "introduction" to each of her 16 selves maybe more, are missing in both versions. The film is shown frequently on television, often with scenes restored or deleted to adjust for time constraints and the varying sensitivity of viewers. The DVD, however, includes the full 198 minute version originally displayed on the NBC broadcast.
 
Awards
1977 Emmy Awards
Sally Field for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama or Comedy Special
Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special (Dramatic Underscore)
Outstanding Special - Drama or Comedy
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Adaptation
 
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Written by Flora Rheta Schreiber (book), Stewart Stern (teleplay)
Starring Sally Field
Joanne Woodward
Release date(s) November 14, 1976
Running time 198 minutes
Country United States
Language English
 
My cousin's letting us take her 21 month old son trick-or-treating tonight. He's dressing as Woody!
 
There's a liiiiight (over at the Frankenstein place!)
There's a liiiiiiiiiiight (burning in the fireplace!)
There's a liiiiight, liiiiight
In the darkness of everybody's liiiiiife
 
You're wet.
Yes...it's raining.
Yes.
Yes. I think you'd both best...come inside.
 
Those lips are weird... It's paused on a scene just showing the teeth...
 
Cute! We've had a Woody, 2 Darth Vaders, 3 Little Mermaids, and 2 Yodas.

We had like 10 kids. We used to get like, a hundred, when I was little. It's pretty sad.

But our behind-us neighbor dressed up as Minnie Mouse--she's so cute! She'll be 3 in...well...either February or March, depending on when they'll celebrate it (her b-day is 2/28!).
 
I watched Sleepy Hollow last night haha.

"We are leaving"
"What happened?"
"We are leaving now"
 
can you pm me a link...? cause I wanna give the little beepers a talking to :rolleyes:

I cant find it.... Sorry



In lighter news I must say I do love baseball and i think it definetly rocks. Totally regret anything i said about baseball fans back in september but i still likeee soccer ;).
 
We had like 10 kids. We used to get like, a hundred, when I was little. It's pretty sad.

But our behind-us neighbor dressed up as Minnie Mouse--she's so cute! She'll be 3 in...well...either February or March, depending on when they'll celebrate it (her b-day is 2/28!).

Cute! I think we've had about 30 so far.
 
What's with the gothic painting look-a-likes at the church door? Seems a weird reference.
 
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