Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

Téléfilm
1975
Not Rated
1h 36m

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Linda Blair in Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThis movie is a teaching tool about a teenage girl struggling with alcoholism to cope with her feelings of insecurity and the usual problems of adolescence.This movie is a teaching tool about a teenage girl struggling with alcoholism to cope with her feelings of insecurity and the usual problems of adolescence.This movie is a teaching tool about a teenage girl struggling with alcoholism to cope with her feelings of insecurity and the usual problems of adolescence.

Director
- Richard Donner
Writers
- Richard Alan Shapiro
- Esther Shapiro
Stars

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,4/10

693

MA NOTE

Director
- Richard Donner
Writers
- Richard Alan Shapiro
- Esther Shapiro
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
Director Richard Donner, who later directed Superman - Le film (1978), went on the talk show circuit to discuss his blockbuster and was asked questions about his early directorial work. However, he couldn't remember the name of this film. He ended up calling it Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), which was directed by Randal Kleiser.

Citations
Sarah Travis: Look, I take a drink every one in a while because it makes me feel good. It makes all this hassles about my parents and the stuff in school go down just a little bit easier.
Ken Newkirk: Why do you have to drink when you're with me?
Sarah Travis: I don't have to drink! I can quit any tine I feel like it. I just don't feel like it.

Connexions
Referenced in Saturday Night Live: Carrie Fisher/The Blues Brothers (1978)

Bandes originales
It's Too Late
(uncredited)
Written by Carole King and Toni Stern
Sung by Linda Blair

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Commentaire en vedette

Linda Blair vehicle with all the stops pulled out

This movie was a vehicle for Linda Blair - but don't let that deter you from checking it out.

Linda plays Sarah Travis, who as the movie begins already has a problem with alcohol. Her parents' recent divorce (and her mother's remarriage) and her move to a new school are not helping things. Slowly everything in her life slides right down the hill and into her river of alcohol. Some of the movie is custom-made for Linda Blair - she gets to sing at a party, her boyfriend has his own horses and lets her groom them (Linda LOVED horses, the teen magazines dutifully reported) - but the message of the movie rings clear. Remarkably powerful scene: Linda goes to an AA meeting, and little Bobby (Eric Olsen, then starring in "Apple's Way") steps forward and shares that his alcoholism made him "so damn disgusted with myself" that he knew he had to get help.

It's not accurate to say Sarah hits rock bottom. She THINKS she hits rock bottom, and then learns the hardest way possible just how much further she could fall.

A powerful movie, HIGHLY recommended.