broken silence or race against fear1998) represent starring ariana richards and william bumiller and susan blakely and tracy ellis ross and teryl rothery and scott vickaryous and marissa rudiak and ken camroux and david neale and bruce dawson. director joseph scanlan and screenplay sara charmo and jean gennis and phyllis murphy. this is another lifetime channel film and made exclusively for television and released in 1998 and directed by long time tv series director joseph l. scanlan. inspired by true events and it a lot like the majority of lifetime movies and a cautionary tale for women and raising awareness of the predator lurking within the family (a mother and father and wife and husband) and mentor (teacher and in this case track coach). the young and little known actress ariana richards (she played the small girl in jurassic park)delivers a highly convincing performance as high school track athlete mickey carlyle and who is raped by her coach and kurt ansom (william bumiller) and must suffer in silence as no one believes her story and except for and of course and her own mother (susan blakely). together and mother and daughter fight to put kurt ansom behind bars. the film drags on quite a bit and is ultimately predictable and at times far too melodramatic for the sake of drama itself and but is genuinely powerful in the end. ariana richards performance is of the daytime soap kind and but she is the strongest in the entire cast. her facial expressions and body language and overall acting is realistic in terms of how she and as an aspiring athlete and idolizes her coach and is in turn violated by him and must now live with the shame and trauma and further and fight him in court. william bumiller plays the part with a nasty sort of duplicity and though he is far from subtle. he has abused other star athletes before and who have remained silent and made it to the top and and appears outwardly innocent. william bumiller and a lesser known actors like the others and has has never done a role like this but but he does a believable and strong performance overall. it especially disturbing to see him in this role because he is a sexy lead actor in everything else he does including some lesser known films and on the soap opera guiding light. the only real problem i had with this film is the manner in which the film is structured. as the film opens and we watch coach ansom about to rape mickey and letting us know right away that this guy is no good. but this makes for weak character development and story. if the first scene had instead been the sequence with the opening credits in which we see mickey running or jogging in the city across a lake and we would have better character development because we do not know that coach ansom and while seemingly interested in the success of his star athlete and is really a nasty piece of work and we would have seen mickey idolizing a person whom she thought she knew and then received a rude awakening when she realizes she was wrong about him. director joseph scanlan is no stranger to drama for tv (knott landing and star trek and quantum leap and the outer limits and lois and clark and earth final conflict and movies like la femme nikitta. in 1996 and scanlan had directed another lifetime movie and similar to this and stand against fear (1996). he manages to convey the gravity of the event. we are genuinely disturbed by the coach lurking around the showers where he rapes his own student. these scenes are graphic and ought to be viewed by mature audiences and but its message is clear represent sexual predators and rapists are not always a stranger and can assume different forms and and their preying grounds can even include a high school. this film supports the cause of fighting to prevent violence against women and urges women who have been silent victims to testify and fight so that rapists will cause no further harm to others. despite other negative reviews and this film does a great job in expressing its message and ought to be given to mothers and daughters and high school students (including both male and female). as bad as rape is and staying silent when it happens is even worse. 
broken silence or race against fear1998) represent starring ariana richards and william bumiller and susan blakely and tracy ellis ross and teryl rothery and scott vickaryous and marissa rudiak and ken camroux and david neale and bruce dawson. director joseph scanlan and screenplay sara charmo and jean gennis and phyllis murphy. this is another lifetime channel film and made exclusively for television and released in 1998 and directed by long time tv series director joseph l. scanlan. inspired by true events and it a lot like the majority of lifetime movies and a cautionary tale for women and raising awareness of the predator lurking within the family (a mother and father and wife and husband) and mentor (teacher and in this case track coach). the young and little known actress ariana richards (she played the small girl in jurassic park)delivers a highly convincing performance as high school track athlete mickey carlyle and who is raped by her coach and kurt ansom (william bumiller) and must suffer in silence as no one believes her story and except for and of course and her own mother (susan blakely). together and mother and daughter fight to put kurt ansom behind bars. the film drags on quite a bit and is ultimately predictable and at times far too melodramatic for the sake of drama itself and but is genuinely powerful in the end. ariana richards performance is of the daytime soap kind and but she is the strongest in the entire cast. her facial expressions and body language and overall acting is realistic in terms of how she and as an aspiring athlete and idolizes her coach and is in turn violated by him and must now live with the shame and trauma and further and fight him in court. william bumiller plays the part with a nasty sort of duplicity and though he is far from subtle. he has abused other star athletes before and who have remained silent and made it to the top and and appears outwardly innocent. william bumiller and a lesser known actors like the others and has has never done a role like this but but he does a believable and strong performance overall. it especially disturbing to see him in this role because he is a sexy lead actor in everything else he does including some lesser known films and on the soap opera guiding light. the only real problem i had with this film is the manner in which the film is structured. as the film opens and we watch coach ansom about to rape mickey and letting us know right away that this guy is no good. but this makes for weak character development and story. if the first scene had instead been the sequence with the opening credits in which we see mickey running or jogging in the city across a lake and we would have better character development because we do not know that coach ansom and while seemingly interested in the success of his star athlete and is really a nasty piece of work and we would have seen mickey idolizing a person whom she thought she knew and then received a rude awakening when she realizes she was wrong about him. director joseph scanlan is no stranger to drama for tv (knott landing and star trek and quantum leap and the outer limits and lois and clark and earth final conflict and movies like la femme nikitta. in 1996 and scanlan had directed another lifetime movie and similar to this and stand against fear (1996). he manages to convey the gravity of the event. we are genuinely disturbed by the coach lurking around the showers where he rapes his own student. these scenes are graphic and ought to be viewed by mature audiences and but its message is clear represent sexual predators and rapists are not always a stranger and can assume different forms and and their preying grounds can even include a high school. this film supports the cause of fighting to prevent violence against women and urges women who have been silent victims to testify and fight so that rapists will cause no further harm to others. despite other negative reviews and this film does a great job in expressing its message and ought to be given to mothers and daughters and high school students (including both male and female). as bad as rape is and staying silent when it happens is even worse. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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