Born Innocent (1974 TV Movie)
4/10
A home for wayward girls
4 September 2020
After scoring in The Exocist Linda Blair's next project was Borm Innocent with Blair playing a habitual runaway. If I had a dad like Richard Jaeckel ready to believe the worst at all times, a subservient mom like Kim Hunter I might consider running away myself.

Where she lands is hardly any improvement. This institution for runaways s just that for runaways. Not like these girls are criminals yet., emphasis on the last word.

Allyn Ann McLerie is the house mother and she's sort of a Nurse Ratched lite. And we know what happened to Ratched.

A forcible sodomy scene was most controversial in its day. This would hardly raise a ripple now.

Controversial back in the 70s, Born Innocent seems just exploitive now.
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