You will feel bad while and after watching this movie. idk wtf people were thinking about, putting this on broadcast TV. But to understand why, you need to first read the:
content warning
suicide
and then the
spoiler
The movie is about a young couple who are in love and who are forbidden from being together. Typical beginning. But halfway through this movie, the young couple commits suicide. Not only does the movie show the suicide, but it show them being found, it shows the bodies being dragged out in the open, and it shows the family screaming and crying over them. In fact, the last half of the movie is about the family’s guilt, sorrow, anger, numbness, and blame.
so apart from that, it’s a TV movie with that level of quality. However, it has Molly Ringwald, Paul Sorvino, and a very young River Phoenix.
- find an invidious version: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=BcjncK2OaaE
- trailer (no spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Km5mnS7Yf0
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving:_A_Family_in_Crisis
I watched this when it first aired on tv. It’s super weird to remember watching it as a teen and now watching it again as a parent.