Something About Amelia

The film is very well handled for such a sensitive subject. I saw it for the first time just last night, and was surprised to see Danson in the role. This film could serve to help stem the problems faced by our younger generation. I would recommend it as a should see.

I've never hated a film so much as I hate this one. The message is that a victim of incest and rape should "forgive"! The message also implies that the abuser's wife was to blame. It was just so awful. The ending made me feel very sick. I haven't got anything else to say about it.

Groundbreaking movie is still good today. What a good cast. Ted Danson cast against type as the molesting father. It's quite horrific when he admits it. Glenn Close as his wife reacts realistically. First in disbelief then anger. Roxana Zal is the daughter and gives an understated effective performance.

There have been few movies about family incest since and this one stands the test of time.

An excellent film that handles a difficult topic well. The casting and sets create an atmosphere to let the story unfold in a seemingly average American home, which adds both to the realism and power of this movie. Ted Danson plays the deceptively normal father to the hilt, and the rest of the cast handle their roles with a high degree of believability. This is a powerful film that handles a difficult subject with intelligence and emotion without sensationalizing. Highly recommended.

This movie should be shown as an example of how NOT to think and act about incest and abuse. Back in the 1980s, it was all about forgiveness for the poor man who was forced to wreck a person's life because his wife or girlfriend wasn't putting out. For me, it was my brother, and my father would always ask me if the rapist was doing okay (!), and tell me I was "making a big deal out of it." Mothers almost always know but say nothing because they don't want to confront the man. This movie is a disgusting piece of unrealistic garbage with a sympathetic lead actor for a perpetrator, but unfortunately, that was the way it was and often still is. A policewoman didn't believe me only a few years ago. No one believes that people who do this are serial rapists, and that they can't get enough, so the victim is constantly under siege every single day, whenever the rapist has a spare minute. But no one believes it. Jeffrey Epstein admitted he needed to do it at least five times a day. There is no successful treatment, no therapy that works. And the resulting illness lasts for the victim's entire life.