Something About Amelia (1984)

Michael Landon was the first choice for the role of the father but turned it down because of his morally upright reputation.

Very uncomfortable to watch imo.

Great pull, OP. I was 14 and I remember talking about this made-for-TV movie in hushed tones at school. I always hoped we’d see more of Roxana Zal, but she never broke out.

I love when Glenn Close smears cum in her hair.

Let's not go there.

A movie of the week, how quaint.

At the time it was quite groundbreaking. Opening the door unfortunately for 15 years of hysterical fraus screaming "I was molested!" even when they werent and all of a suddewn EVERY single man was a child fucker ,even when they werent.

It's sick

Hot movie!

I remember how shocking and scandalous it seemed at the time for network TV. I was 10 when it came out. Watched it a few years ago on Youtube and it was interesting just to see Ted Danson playing such a creep. It felt incredibly dated (like all TV movies, I suppose). I didn't like the way they made it sound like poor old dad just needed some counseling and therapy and the family would be able to stay intact. As if an incestuous pedophile can be rehabilitated. I don't think so!

This would make a great feel-good jukebox musical.

Movie was creepy. Poor Amelia.

"New and Improved All-Temperature Cheer truly did make my bedding Winter White!"

Well-acted for an 80s TV movie, but insanely dated and offensive.

80s TV movies are a lot better than the crap that comes out on Hallmark.

That was depressing as hell.

R7, no. Any personal history that created that belief is boring and worthless and you know it.

One of the shittiest things you can experience as a teen is to hear someone who is being abused, report it to your folks, get some bullshit status report, have everyone grow silent, and then...nothing.

Find a coworker in tears because some asshole is telling he what he’d do to her pussy (office brokerage setting). Jump on his desk and swear him out and throw a fit because you should. Nothing happens.

Fuck you, R7.

As a 10 year old gayling, I remember being extremely jealous of Amelia.

I have always remembered Ted Dansen putting a new carton of cigarettes on top of the refrigerator. As a 21 year old I thought that was so clever to paint him as bad early on by showing that he was a smoker.

The movie ruined the name Amelia for me.

I hate the ending. Like counseling is going to fix a man who had sex with his daughter, and she's supposed to live with him like it's all good now?

Why the fuck try to paint a happy ending for the dad?

It was Escandalo at my Middle School, iirc there was an assembly about it so we could talk about speaking out if molested.

There was an episode of Hill Street Blues where cops are called for a domestic disturbance. The wife attacked her husband because she caught him fucking their daughter. The cops tell them it's not worth breaking up a family over this. Their advice to the daughter is stop wearing skimpy clothes. People had bizarre attitudes towards sex back then.

Amelia was a dirty little hussy!

R6=triggered frau

It should be remade as "Something About Ivanka"

I remember this but didn't want to watch Sam Malone molesting his kid.

I remember them saying Roxanna Zal was going to be the next "big thing".

Roxana dated Rodney Harvey

One of the weaker installments in the TABOO film series.

R20 A movie with that ending wouldn't be made today.

at 1:08 the movie is wrong. He is a pedophile. Did we not know that in the 80s.

It's hilarious how poor G lost at the Emmys for this movie.

They need to do a remake of this and have him end up locked up in prison with the other short-eyes and get out divorced and with his name on the sex-offenders list unable to get a job.

This was around the time when films like Pretty Baby and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane showed pre-pubescent girls having sex. Playboy had a publication called Sugar 'N' Spice which featured nude pics of little girls including 10 year old Brooke Shields. I was a kid at the time but I would read my Mom's People magazines. I would see photos in there of Roman Polanski and Nastassja Kinski who were a couple.

This movie received major publicity the week it aired. It was heavily promoted and on the cover of Parade and all the local TV Guide editions.

Fallen Angel was another creepy as fuck TV movie.

What exactly does the title refer to? Some piece of dialog?

This aired during my prime TV-watching years as a kid and I think, maybe, I remember the cover of the TV Guide, but otherwise have absolutely no memory of this at all. Not even of all the Emmy nominations!

I was probably watching "Goodnight Beantown" or "Alice" instead.

This movie is not in any way an indication of how shit like this actually ends.

This is more accurate:

You have credit to Danson for taking on this role. It could have been a career killer.

R36 Awww that's Audrey Griswald from European Vacation.

In Fallen Angel you can watch her seduce Richard "Hold me , David" Masur.

I recognize him from the episode of All in the Family where he played the retarded grocery clerk.

[quote] Fallen Angel was another creepy as fuck TV movie.

I saw that as a kid some Saturday afternoon and it was fucked up. It’s kind of amazing that something like that— a little girl coerced into kiddie pron including scenes of the mom’s boyfriend shooting the photos— could just be your average TV movie of the week.

Wasn't there some TV movie in the 70s where Linda Blair played a teen who got sent to a juvenille detention center and got raped?