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The Burning Bed | 
 enlarge | Director: Robert Greenwald
Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie, Penelope Milford
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 9140
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0792861787
UPC: 027616911247
EAN: 9780792861782
ASIN: B0002CR036
Theatrical Release Date: October 8, 1984
Release Date: September 7, 2004
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This controversial, 1984 made-for-television movie gave Farrah Fawcett her first true showcase as an actress. Playing an abused wife who kills her monstrous husband (Paul Le Mat), Fawcett demonstrates a facility with the moral ambiguities of the story, which concerns the painful but fascinating questions of where justice lies. Fine support from Richard Masur and Grace Zabriskie, and the assured direction is by Robert Greenwald (Xanadu. --Tom Keogh
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 True Story- Intense Abuse drives a woman to the brink of insanity September 9, 2008
Alexis Callaway (Virginia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a true story about a woman who was driven to the point of insanity because of an abusive husband. The movie is set during a day and age where there was no help for the abused. My mom had bought this movie off of Amazon and shown it to me. Its worth every star and more. You start to feel deeply for the children and their mother who suffer great abuse at the hands of their father/husband. This movie is full of vivid horrendous scenes that feel very real. You start to feel immense hatred towards the husband, his parents, and her mother. How can they sit back and do nothing when their son is beating on his wife infront of his children?! How can her own mother tell her to go back to her husband, that no matter what, her place is by his side?! The Burning Bed made me feel a lot of things, including happiness when the husband died, I felt he deserved it for all the pain he inflicted on others. Watch this movie and you wont be disappointed, its a must see.
 Not as expected. August 22, 2008
L. Evans (Wales U.K)
This was a movie put from VHS to DVD. Unfortunately, when it arrived, it was region oe encoding, so I was not able to view it. I have seen the movie on VHS, and it is excellent, with suberb acting from ms. Fawcett.
 Gripping and real September 9, 2007
frugalnwild (Yakima WA USA)
It isn't often that I stay up until midnight watching a movie on TV, but this movie had me hooked. It is so easy to wonder why a woman doesn't leave, yet watching Fawcett you understand the social pressures to stay, and the game that is continually played. An excellent movie, one that has no surprise ending just takes you through the journey that is almost visible from the start. Despite that you can't stop watching, it is filled with raw, human emotions.
Landmark TV Movie - Harrowing June 28, 2007
blondeguy10 (South Africa)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Burning Bed is the true story of a woman who endures years of abuse mental and physical from her husband before finally snapping and killing him. The subject matter is still as relevant today as it was when it was released to much acclaim in 1984. In fact it should be essential viewing and therapy for any abusive person to see how they destroy lives.
The movie would not have worked without the powerful central performance of Farrah Fawcett who deservedly was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe. She is abley supported by Paul Le Mat as the abusive husband and Garce Zabriskie as the apathetic mother in law. Although Fawcett had already turned in good performances in the 1981 movie Murder in Texas and on stage in Extremeties,it was this landmark tv movie that finally brought her recognition as a serious actress. Its a harrowing subject unsensationally handled and brilliantly written and acted.
Plaudits to MGM for releasing it on DVD however given the importance of the film and its subject its unfortunate that there are no 'extras'
Worthwhile.
AKA "How To Murder Your Husband And Get Away With It!" April 13, 2007
John Baranyai
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
This movie stars Farrah Force- It who plays a Professional Victim who stays with her physically and mentally abusive husband. Instead of going to a Women's Shelter or seeking help she stays with her husband and does a pretty good impression of a punching bag. Then one night after her husband has exercized his Conjugal Rights she sets fire to him and the bed. He is helpless to stop this as he is passed out intoxicated.It is very interesting that I have never heard of a guy who ever got acquitted from a Murder Charge by using the Defence that his wife beat him up. I give this movie 5 stars because I have no doubt that it will appeal to all of the man hating women of Alternate Sexual Persuasion out there.
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