When my husband passed away ,at very young age 38. I still remain alone with my daughter , never allowed a man in my life, just to protect my daughter. I am glad I did that 🙏♥️
@@HomeEF I did the same when my husband died. I decided it wasn’t worth the risk of having my son abused to have a man around. I’m proud of us for protecting our kids, even though it has meant being alone. 🙏🏼
I am sorry for your hurt. I never told my daughter, and she idolizes him. She wants nothing to do with me.Very hurtful. I’m so happy to have Jesus in my life. He gets me through each day.
Took a risk, GREAT MOVIE, some of us are damaged a little, some alot. I'm an old man & never found what i was good at, never found lasting love nor joy, except a few fleeting moments. I know God loves us & that He will make all our sorrows "worth it" One Fine Day. ❤ TX 🇺🇸 🙏🕊
I’m in the same boat except I’m a middle aged woman. Somewhat damaged, no known talent. Just out of a relationship of over 23 years that should have ended much sooner and am about to move back to my home state of Texas to start over. I would call all those years wasted if not for the two wonderful dogs that I never would have known if I hadn’t been in said relationship. They were my best friends and I wouldn’t trade the time I had with them. Hopefully, someday I’ll be in a position to adopt more 4-legged friends. Good luck to you, Sir. I pray that we both have joy in our remaining time here on earth. But, either way, I agree that God will make our next destination worth any suffering we have experienced in this life.
Thank you Sir,, I appreciate ur words I'm 45,, and feel the same way about life and the here after,,my current life is horrible so I welcome any mercy 🙏🙏😊😊
When you are a person on the outside looking in ,It seems so easy to tell someone to get out of there to take the kids and get out of a sick abusive situation, but when you are the person going through it,nothing seems that easy ,it's the mental abuse along with the physical abuse can't think or see straight sometimes. GREAT MOVIE I would definitely recommend it !!! Thanks again RUclips!!!
If you're in a position to begin treating your children with the mindset And responsibility of an adult by age 13They will enjoy the rest of their childhood On out intoThe rest of adult hood. Educate them With the common sense God gave to understand behavior. And lead by example being extra tough in those areas while you can.society wants to get us to adulthood at 18 but it happens nuch earlier than that, this is why they are thinking and behaving more intentionaly @11 12 yrs.be smart enough to know where all goodness comes from so you can provide a source they will come back to because there is nothing good in us until we can acknowledge the true source.
Spot on for describing being on the inside. One doctor told a small female her head had been beaten in so much her brain waves had dropped to alpha level… that pretty low cognitive thinking…. Her story of beating was sickening to think what she endured getting beat on also showed her cognitive decline rendered helpless. Alpha wave state; I believe if you are slowing down to fall asleep seems definitive enough. Try psychological warfare being practiced on a wife when the husband didn’t spend 1 minute within any military structure. That some really sick cruel behavior
@@Justsobyjan Women should be recognized for There are keen sense of awareness especially in details Of all types .If the governed society can distract her from this an put those same senses elsewhere Besides the nurturing and raising of her family (Husband included) Then the family as a whole is a failure Because the essence of who Change is Is destroyed. Old behaviors have to pass away in order for new ones to be inherited. This is the way inheritance works. We practice it all day long between ourselves except when it comes to things that really matter Like behavior. Everyone standing around knows the bad behavior didn't pass away But they take the inheritance (Which is the control of the family) anyway. This is the fundamental foundation of true religion. You can't get anything from a will unless someone dies. If they say the meek shall inherit the Earth guess what has to happen to the Earth. If God has a will Someone has to come and do his will. If you will that your family's behavior must change What has to pass away what has to be done away with? These markers are put in our natural lives. That we might recognize how to have eternal family life and life eternal.
@@Justsobyjan in my case my children were not being beaten ,but still it was important to show them life wasn't supposed to be the way it was in our home my ex was a good man but as years went on he suffered from schizophrenia he's gone now from cancer, I just know abuse is a hard thing for many to get away from
I found this movie extremely hard to watch‼️I made myself watch it to the end to see if any good came to the people who were living it. It reminded me of my home life as a child, and later as a wife, married to a man who beat his children. I wish i had the courage to walk out of the bad marriage, but at the time, i did not. Later, we did get divorced, but the harm was already done to all of us. We all are serving God, now, but oh how I wished our lives changed earlier so the harm and trauma never happened, but praise God, He really does forgive and helps us to change❣️❣️❣️✝️ Thank you , Jesus❣️❣️❣️✝️
I can't tolerate this movie or lets say true story,it made me sick,my nature is to retaliate, or do something,,no matter how hard it could it be ,I'd rather kill or be killed ,specially there are kids involve.Sorry man.
God Bless you and your family and I'm thankful to the Lord he has carried you and thr children through. He is a faithful God keep living for the Lord :)
I was born with a golden heart and by 4 years old I was Jaded. I became a track star, and a winner in most ways & I particularly became a warrior. My future was taken and even now I feel I dont belong with humans on earth. My father did this to me. I dont trust men at all and I am single at 65. It is true what they say, if you have nothing to lose you become dangerous. over 200 fights... 0 losses. Good thing I still have love and great kindness for innocent animals.
Incredible real life depiction..the writer, the director and the actors..well done! Heart breaking story but we all know these things go on in this world..they shouldn’t but they do! Excellent movie!
I lived this. Cant watch. Dad hit my oldest sis and she died young at 52 from aneurysm at. Base of neck, where hed hit. Bless her heart. She saved us 2 younger ones. Alcoholism must be treated.
This happens more often than you think. It’s just hidden people are embarrassed to talk about it.. my mother’s second husband, my stepfather used to beat me like this and send me to school with a bruises all over my face, swollen, first and second grade. I’m finally the principal of the school stepped in help. My mother never did anything just told me it was all my fault to this day. I have a contentious relationship with her. She never said she was sorry and I have a learning disorder as a result repeated head trauma. I’m glad there’s movies like this to let the Public know and nowadays it’s a crime not to get the authorities involved if there’s child abuse.
only Jesus can restore you! heal everything, including you thoughts, that has damage they way you think about things, trust etc, when you become a mother that nothing of her is passed on , as it can without you knowing it it will be passed on. only Jesus can help you get rid of the evil as it did for me. Jesus said, '' I will bind up your wounds'', Psalm 147:3 no professional council can restore you , or other false religion meditation , etc.
I also have learning disabilities due to getting a fist to the head for doing something wrong and this comes from a biological father my learning disabilities my parents always said was because I was stupid and couldn't learn anything I didn't graduate from high school because of this and I was scared of men for alot of years.
I'm so sorry. May I ask if your mom had to has some type of mental disorder to have allowed that abuse against you? It can't be normal to see your own kids being abused and think it's ok. I'm sorry you dealt with that.
Such a sad and triggering story. We had a stepfather who was psychology and physically cruel to myself and older sister. Both she and I still cringe, half a century later at the sight and sound of certain things. Mother was too weak to do anything. It may fade a bit, but these things never go away.
It makes you realize that animals are more resilient than humans… because you can take a badly beaten and abused dog, cat, etc. from the shelter, and they will learn to trust and be happy again over time in the right environment with the right person. I’m not saying we’re not as intelligent as them but from what i’ve seen in 53 years people are not nearly as resilient.. and often they go on searching for the same kind of person that messed them up in the first place.🤷🏻 No judgement, just sayin’… we have more to learn from animals than they do from us, most likely.
It's way worse when infidelity by the "so-called' wife, rips a fmily appart too, especially when the son (her natural son) wanted to stay with his adoptive dad (adopted after the marriage), such that within a few years, of NOT getting enough "visitations" back to his Dad, he wrote to a family court Judge and requested he be returned.. The judge agreed after having a combined session in court, to be TOLD by her, that the "judge" needs to tell the adoptive Dad he won't be gettig any right to visit? Whereupon the family court judge abruply stood up (beatroot red) and stated NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO - IN MY COURTROOM, and told the lawyers to "instruct your client" (and left the room) I was told to "wait" in a side room, and after about half an hour, one lawyer (not mine) came back and asked me if it would be OK for me to take him home that day, as I had been awarded FULL custody, and if I wanted, I could chose what days per fortnight, she could have for visits from him. BUT the travel fares had to be paid in advance, as well as his return ticket back to me? That was because the family court judge (and my adopted son), knew which "parant" was the better one to live with, who cared about HIM (and not about getting a lot of "men" through her bedroom).
As a child around 6 years old, my dad hurt me too. He is a alcoholic narcissist. Because I decided to charge my father, my mom, brother, sister in law and my best friend of 30 years dumped me. They wanted nothing to do with me. It's been a terrible life. Most of my life, I just pretended when i was around my family, friends and co-workers that i was managing as a single mom. When I had a hit and run car accident, it was not my fault. I had a breakdown. I wasn't the same after that, I was crying, sleeping all the time. People in my life have really let me down. I still suffer from depression. I think I was always was depressed, with complex PTSD and chronic pain. I exist, there is little joy in my life. Everyone just deserted me. I'm glad for my adult children. They are with me and im glad or I'd have no one. This has been years now. Since 2007 when I had a car accident, everything just went bad after that. I didn't do anything wrong, I been punished for doing nothing. I was sexual assaulted, bullied, beaten by men. It's been a very sad life. I can relate. Children getting sexual assaulted is a life sentence. You never forget. God bless all children, women and men who are abused in anyway. I pray for you. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
My thoughts exactly. I would rather run away with my kids and ask for help than to allow someone to abuse my children. He was a drunk, they could have left anytime he was passed out.
I did leave but to get away i had to leave my children behind. Sleeping out in a frozen February and slowly building a little bit of a life I was able to "kidnap" my children to safety. I am a very adventurous person. I think that many people underestimate the amount of control and abuser has over his victim. It wasn't always as it is now. With restraining orders and hidden shelters. Threats of death are very common. Be careful how you judge.
@@karensmoak2816 Do you really think you have the right to judge a victim? Have you yourself ever been close to a situation like that? This doesn't mean that I condone despicable drunk behaviour, or put up with any kind of violence. You'd be surprised if you knew just how many people live in fear, and remain in silence for fear of even worse reprisals. The fact is that the "law" is usually pretty useless, because it's based on thuggery as well. Most judges are corrupt, and actually, there's very little true justice in this pretty rotten world we live in. Don't forget, the mother in this film was already diagnosed as very ill, with a Damocles sword over her head. Maybe a little more understanding ,eh?
I heard my mom saying once before she and my dad met he used to beat women. My mom was my best friend and I grew up thinking if he ever did any harm to her I would've killed him myself with my own hands and the older I get the more I believe he knew that. She was my everything and although he was always the provider, he spent his whole life working to make sure we had all our needs covered, there was always a thin line between him and myself which didn't really exist between him and my kid brother. I loved him dearly and I knew he loved us all but I always kept an eye open in case he tried to do anything to my mom. Thanks God he never did.
Maybe she wasn’t telling the truth, funny that all those years he never abused your mum isn’t it , i think your dad deserved better from you than you always thinking that of him !!
your mom is not your best friend that is bizarre,!!! you have introduced to the world, as you 'friend'' , not as you mom. do you introduce her to your friends '' this is my best friend''? , and does she also introduce you to her friends as '' he is my best friend'',? is she part of your '' circle of friends' when you go out with them , do you go out to the movies,, restaurants, dance ,parties with her and she is part of your friends?? that is disrespectful !! your mom is your mom a different role than a friend, a friend is not your mom either .
If my dad never lifted a finger against my mother, I wouldn't believe her that he used to beat women (specially in plural). You say you might be the reason he never lifted his hand against her, but imagine when you weren't born yet or in your earlier years, there's nothing you could've done then and yet he didn't hit her. Maybe she heard rumors or maybe he did have a 180-degree change of heart that involved Jesus. If he wasn't born again or left alcoholism or drugs, your mum might have lied to you.
👉FORGIVENESS FORMS FOUNDATIONS FOR FUTURE FORTITUDE ✝️🕊️ JOHN 3:16 The Lord Jesus knows rejection, and He was beat severely bad, by His stripes He has healed our bodies, plus minds, if we allow Him too! I was severely beat for years as a young girl, plus stepdad was a pervert. Forgiving him, as well as, my xhusband has healed my mind, and the Lord has used me to help many who were victims. Hating the abuser only destroys a person in their mind, and body. It’s not worth holding onto the hate, and revenge as a person only suffers more.
The mother is horrible to allow her husband to beat her son like he did. The older brother wasn’t much better, pretending to be asleep while his younger brother was beaten with a baseball bat.
Yes, she was disgusting because she had a choice, she could leave, and rather than be hit she let her kid be hurt. When she scolded her husband not to hit Scotty in the face, husband made it clear it was him or her, and she shut up fast letting the boy be beaten. Hated her character and how she allowed the favoritism of one and the scapegoating of the other. Was Lattimer supposed to be Scotty's actual father?
'mothers are the nurturers, the love of a mother is the best and she has the children best interest' mothers love is so special ' this a myth!!!! from society making such to be true and programing our mind to believe such lies, mothers are not all love the movie we see she did not love the children she loved him the abuser instead she protected him instead of her children she was weak and her interest was for her husband and her self not her children, if she was all nurturer than she would have protected her children she was pretending to care . MOthers are not nurturers, is from fairy tale books, and society distorted view the evidence is found from movies like this one and there are many stories like it about mothers not loving their children and protecting them .
In the USA the court may demand it. I'm forced to pay my ex to abuse my minor children in every way known to man including SA. So it's normal in America.
Forgiveness is easier said than done but it's possible, this movie tells a story of so many families and how hard it makes on those in involved. Great movie
I chose not to be like the persons who mentally and physically abused me, I learned to forgive them, so I wouldn't turn into them, God loves us, I gave my 2 son's a life I never had. 😊
The movie isn't sickening, Patricia.... It's the portrayal of an all too common REAL Life circumstance of a brutal, hate-filled, alcoholic stepfather that DULY makes you sick..... in your heart. 💔 What concerned me equally was that the school counselor, played by Eric Roberts, did NOTHING when he observed time-after-time the "results" of physical abuse, but Did Not notify Police... 😧
Forgiveness is the key ...it doesnt make what that person did to you okay..it sets you free from the anger and bitterness so you can be happy...i was abused as young teenager and it followed into my adulthood by my mom and i had to forgive her..i had so much hurt in my heart ..like this man here,i felt chosen by her out of two other sisters for her to treat me wrong and i couldnt understand why.
So sorry you had to endure all that! Glad you found happiness. I almost quit watching because I can't stand foul language that literally makes no sense; but I realized this is such an accurate portrayal of many life stories, so I watched the whole thing. Glad Scotty buried his baseball stuff instead! Forgiveness allows you to bury things, just as surely as Christ died and was buried for us, but rose again to give us new life in Him, if we believe Him! Thanks for sharing your story and your first statement.
(@home) We are not all monsters dear one! Many of us just want to love and be loved. To look after and care for someone and if so, then their children also. Some of us are God fearing men of values. I’m really sorry for your loss ma’am. Chris, Western Australia 🇦🇺
You reap what you sow😢😢😢. Every Dog get his day. I faced a true account.. my children were young.. and before they got to their second birthdays I took them away from that abuse... some women tolerate abuse... and it is sad to see that.. me personally I had to fight😮
We're not called the bride of Christ for nothing The female is ordained to look And pay attention to the smallest things Women can teach the church how to protect the word because it changed you so much
Yeah, and I've got a problem with the cop brother who keeps suggesting abusive dad should be forgiven when cop brother didn't get the beatings, not to mention his intended career taken away on purpose. "oh, I love you son, it was the alcohol"....nah, if you LOVE someone, nothing can induce you into physically beating them, not even fermented liquids.
Let's not forget Stepmother's have hatred towards the children that their Husband had before They married again, that's silent abuse,that you grow up remembering.
@@judithreed5433I've seen personally, more toxic step mothers than step fathers. And this is coming from someone whos bio mom is a POS and my was step mom adopted me. She is everything my biological mom wasn't.
A person can say or do things when under the influence & not realize/remember the pain that persons actions left. The person Receiving that pain will never forget . Can Never Forget & forgiveness is none existent. This movie was so full of raw emotions that many can relate to or feel the pain. The cast was excellent in portraying real life, & thank you for all that was behind the scenes. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
This film hurts my feelings so bad! I was physically, mentally, emotionally, and sexually abused as a child! By my own father. I was the one chosen for abuse. Don’t know why? But it hurts to see such unforgiveness. I didn’t forgive my father for many years . I did not want him in my life whatsoever! I left home at 17. But God showed me I had to leave him to God! To release the hurt and let God heal me! And he did! Praise God! My father died without ever telling me he was sorry. Hurts a lot , but I learned God is a father to the fatherless! That’s how I got through all of it! Very hard, but God is gracious and kind!
When he asked his step father ...'Why me..! ?' because, the brother was in fact his biological son. That's the reason why he did not kill his step father.
@@melodiec8226 No one ever said that in the movie? This is so dumb the cop brother goes to pops finds Scott and 2 dead intruders with guns and he lays the blame on Scott when it was self-defense? This is an awesome movie (ruined for me) because that just does not make sense at all? So they are hiding two self-defense murders, and the cop brother gets investigated for murders, when it was all self-defense and they never had to hide anything at all, am I the only one that sees this?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤬🤬🤬🤬If in the end Scott did not kill pops, what was the confession letter for? Surely Scott wouldn't have confessed to killing those two intruders because it was self defense this movie makes no sense!
@@jeffeverett1599so soooo glad I found this comment because I was thinking the EXACT SAME THING! 1st, why hide the bodies at all when it was clearly self defense? !!! 2nd, I kept waiting and waiting, even watching thru the credits (you know how sometimes they’ll overlay the hook right at the end mixed in with credits etc) for them to tie it all together by the confession letter being from jimmy (drunk stepfather) taking the blame for the two justifiable self defense killings- that way Scott was finally set free. Aka not on the hook for those two murders and resting sound knowing jimmy was gonna die in six weeks. The fact that they didn’t do this, or tie it up some other intelligible way killed the whole movie for me. Shoot, I would’ve even taken the sappy predictable same ole same ole where the woman at the bar saved Scott from killing jimmy and she ended up being Scott’s forever woman and they rode off into the sunset happy and flash forward ten years later and both brothers and all their wives and kids were enjoying a nice family cookout together 😂😂 for Pete’s sake give me SOMETHING 🤦🏼♀️
This is how the Lord said to forgive and I will forgive you Sorry I don't speak much English but I learned a lot from this movie to the best of my ability, thank you for the instructive essay.🎉🎉🎉
My first marriage was very abusive, to this day i dont want a bat near me. I took my 1 yr old and planned my escape acrss country. My fear is next would be my daughter and i know i would then be wiling to go to prison to take him out. 3 years of therapy helped but caution will always prevail. 7 yrs later i met the most kindest man, after 5 yrs i married him. Why 5 yrs? I was waiting for his bad side to show so i could tell him go away. He adopted my child. He saw the pictures and knew if he ever hit me he would be arrested and was not allowed to discipline my child. 46 yrs later he was the best decision for my daughter and i. Ladies find a way to get away, call cops, stand your ground in court, get pictures, get into a shelter if need be. Just get out! Its not always easy but its always worth it.
Leaving no matter how well planned is not always the end of it...they follow you..find you no matter and won't leave your life or the kids..there are those who truly won't stop or give up..with those..leaving.. Plus..a backup are needed
You are an exemplery woman!!! You not only left toxic but also never let toxic attract and find you again. Breaking generational curse at its best!! Thanks for sharing your story
I don't understand why people think they're safe if they threatened someone with being arrested ! Not many men are scared of jail . Unless they are there for SA on children . Those maggots don't have it real easy in jails or prisons , even though nowadays they get more protection than back in the day . Sounds like you should say that you found a real man who understands that it's wrong to abuse women & children , because they deserve to be treated with the most respect & love he has to offer . I stepped into a relationship with a divorced mother who had 4 kids . 3 who were already grown & not living at home . Her youngest daughter was 12 or 13 when we decided to live together . I never ever tried to be her child's father , she had her own . But I did have rules . Of course it was her mother's job to correct her if needed . Not mine .. but since 2005 , my step children (all 4) have given us 6 grandchildren & 2 of those gave us 3 great grandchildren . Believe me , I'm a protecter of my 3 granddaughter's , 3 great granddaughter's...oh , hopefully another one on the way 😂😂 I was raised around a step father who beat my mother every time he got whiskey drunk . He never beat me or my younger brother . But I've never forgotten the times my mother tried to duck behind me as a child , to keep from getting hit . Once I got around 13 / 14 years old . I caught him passed out and beat him with a "walking tall" stick . That was around 1975/1976 ...from then until the day he died in 1983 , he never laid a hand on her ever again ... and no , I've never followed that kinda behavior I was raised around . People can blame that type of behavior on alcohol , drugs or the way they were raised . But that's a piss poor excuse if you ask me . If a man truly loves & cherish his woman & children , he wouldn't abuse them . He'd protect them at all cost ... I truly hope every woman and child never has to be put through abuse by some piece of chit . But if they do , get clear of the BS . No second chance either . If they do it once , they'll do it time & time again .
True. I traveled for a time & would stop at highway exit restaurants/stores & would buy again & again, Christian books on how to forgive, have always read philosophy type books, Gandhi type books, etc. Till this day I cannot forgive or forget the verbal abuse of a narcissistic mother who everyone else thought was the best & funniest mom there was. Just like some husbands, "Oh, what a great guy", Oh, Yeah ? "Well, you live with him!"
Amen sister, I've been thru hell for 60 years an will probably live thru hell what time I've got left.But I love my best friend that would be God,he pulled me thru some really bad times an has been my foundation of life.❤
*WOW....* now _THAT_ was an emotionally unnerving, truly heart-wrenching portrayal.... 😲 Not surprising that the "suggested", equally severe physical abuse of the mother was never "dramatized".🤐 Personally, the baseball bat scene against Scott in bed had MY "trigger finger" *_Locked And Loaded..._* 😎 And that scene's beating is what obviously led to Scott's later physical problems that Destroyed his career. I am just 100% SICKENED that the high school baseball coaching staff Did NOT Notify The Police when they obviously SAW Scott's repeated injuries that, in fact, prevented him from playing ball = Time After Time in the regional high school baseball league = Equally SHAMEFUL by that staff. 🧐😨🖕
Yes, I was wondering what year was that, anyway I wouldn’t ever allow a drunk looser attack my children like that or I would have lost my head and make him pay. I love the Lord but I don’t understand how a mother would allow that abuse on the children.
I was abused throughout my whole childhood. Later in life when I went back to the town I lived in as a child, and you would not believe the number of people who came up to me and said they knew what was going on and No one did anything.
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@@marthaelenalimon9357 For many , forgiveness can not be given. The trauma is so ingrained in your heart & soul that forgiveness is impossible. Unless one has gone thru such abuse , they can’t understand WHY a person stays &/or can’t forgive, if they’re fortunate enough to get away from the abuser. Kiddos to those who are able to forgive 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
wow i felt so sorry for the mother and her 2 sons.i just don't understand why the mother would of not kicked that rotten man out of her house,after seeing the abuse he did to her sons and feeling the abuse her self. its just so sad😪
things were much different 30some years ago... there was no help available, patriarchy was still very much the mainstream, there were zero women's shelters, no domestic abuse laws, women were expected to "stand by" their man... nothing like today.
Because she's a weak woman that never grew a pair to be able to take care of herself. I have no sympathy for weak women, I was a single mother so I know first hand how hard life can be.
I came from an abusive home, I got beat almost every day, which has affected my marriage my relationship with my daughters because I never developed any coping skills. I'm getting help now. I'm starting ttherapy. That's called. EMDR look it up
The mother and her freaking abusive man destroyed these 2 young men life. She is the one that needs to be sentenced to live in prison. SOB , she ruined her kids life just to be with a freaking wasted man. My gosshhh what’s wrong with some women??!!!😡
Women weren't empowered to go against men and it was way harder back then, no safe houses, government intervention to give a woman a place to stay, money to eat with.😢 Thank goodness people have become more enlightened and help is a little easier to find.
I attended our stepfather’s funeral, and cried. I guess tears that knew he would never destroy another life again. As for my mother…she is the one who allowed it to happen. I hold her responsible for the abuse. I cared for her until I couldn’t stand her bitter rejection anymore. I refused to go to her bedside as she lay dying with my siblings there. I waited until she died and then my son and myself went to say our goodbyes. She chose him over us, that can’t be changed. Lives affected forever.
Abused as a child growing up and never feeling love. I finally found out what a loving functional family is like when I was 18 and taken in by the family of a friend. I have been married 50 years now and have two daughters. I had a 42 year career in nursing. Through God all things are better and the hardness leaves your heart. God teaches us to forgive and I have been able to do so.
You cant judge anyone unless you have been in that situation,Its easy to say you would of walked away when you were not there.This is an award winning movie and I hope Adam and Shawn get actor of the year awards.This movie will touch many hearts and lives.Every father mother stepdad boyfriend should see this and every young girl and guy before its too late.
I lived this!, in the 60s, my mommy was 5'2, no education indian, told to shut her mouth like us kids, we got our asses beat every day by a drunk, I let my dad die alone!
My mother ran so many times with us young 3 girls, and he found us, and beat us," go f**k your opinion, you didn't live in thier shoes in the 60s, cops didn't get into domestic violence!!
This movie made me cry. It brought up so many emotions. Childhood trauma doesn't go away easily. My father was a drunk and abusive to my mother and us kids. My husband didn't drink but was abusive in many other ways. No more contact after my life was threatened. The Bible says with an angry man, do not go and wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging they that are deceived thereby are not wise. Abuse can be a never ending cycle. I cried in front of the mirror tonight looking at this older version of myself seeing the toll that abuse has taken on me. As I cried I asked God to help me to deal with the hurt and pain I experienced through both my parent's relationship and my own. Some never come to the realization of what their actions as an abuser cause as a whole. Years can pass without even realizing the effects it still has on our Mental well-being.
Alcohol has spoiled so many houses all across the world. In Islam it's prohibited as it snatches the power to think correctly. I feel in Christinity also it's prohibited, isn't it.
i was anger grow up' because my father real and mom favored my brother and sis' they never could understand my anxiety and ADHD growing up' but im 59 now and i understand more' drugs have never helped in ways but i hold my on 'and i'm strong'...my Father changed his last name because his daddy was a drunk' been know that but the other family he was raised by they liked to drink also...i like this movie and understand it...
One strange movie . A real "Bell Ringer" for some ... All too close to home for others !!! Worth the time watching for me ... You can never erase the past just forget forgive and move on !!!
😢 Can't erase it, can never forget that it happened. Not sure about forgiveness but I can push the thoughts to the back of my mind to get through life. Every once in a while something triggers the awful memory and it all comes to the front of my mind again. Then I fight against it, to push it back to the bottom of my mind.
Very good film I really enjoyed it good story it karma come back to you when you treat someone bad ❤❤❤I would rate this film 5 ⭐ star's Well done to the person who made this film
WHO KNEW ... who knew Shawn Michaels is much more then a wrassler, i hope to see him in more movie roles like this. Who knew the Midnight Rocker & Playgirl PinUp could act so A list in such a powerful film that sends a message to everyone about how 1 person distroys so many lives in a hateful hurtful way.
I spoke to many women who were abused. I thought they were dumb for staying with their abuser. I did not realize the power of the sociopath. Sociopaths do not love others. They have no empathy. They control others. They enjoy power and control. They can charm people. Women like their line. The sociopath abuses then begs forgiveness . The woman forgives the abuser.......until the next occurrence. This continues ......abuse.....forgiveness..... Eventually the abuser stops asking for forgiveness and the abuse is non stop . Women should learn to leave the relationship at the first sign of abuse. Don't believe his forgiveness. If he really loved u.......he would not have abused u. That s the disease of sociopathy. Sociopaths can't be cured.......Please ....ladies.......if u are being abused....once .....leave. It does not tet better. It gets worse ....
I truly enjoyed this , as some said it was difficult to watch, in places, but that's because it hit home, and made me feel some stuff I wanted to forget-- Great job by all who made the movie and thanks for posting OP and RUclips
I enjoy action movies non fiction is my favorite to watch based on true historical events. My son thanks you too. Being able to watch mo ies free of charge is fantastic especially in these time's when my family and I are budgeting every dollar we make.
You dont have to say "a drunk"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a G damn addiction!! one that is VERY VERY VERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY HARD TO GET OUT OF !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@XiomaraAyannaMelendez-sr1yi59 YES I KNOW!!!!!!! I am an alcoholic who has been dry for many years! I know how hard it is, but my family was more important to me than dulling my senses with booze!
I married young only to divorce young. After meeting my new husband now i from the beginning made it known to him that my children already had a Father. He did not have to Father them .He was ok with that. It was a way i felt to protect my children. My husband was ok with that and 30yrs later my grown children respect him. They have nothing bad to say about my husband.. it worked for us. I'm grateful for that
Something times in life people don't always understand why some individuals do the things when they have a family but as you get older you will have the knowledge to understand you just have to learn from it but don't forget about it
Such an amazing movie. Thought provoking, emotional and stays with you long after its finished. Brilliant acting too. Forgiveness is so important even though I know it's hard to do 😢
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The damage caused by his father was too much for a man to bear. Only true forgiveness would save him from himself.
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This is such a real story that I think happens everyday
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When my husband passed away ,at very young age 38. I still remain alone with my daughter , never allowed a man in my life, just to protect my daughter. I am glad I did that 🙏♥️
@@HomeEF I did the same when my husband died. I decided it wasn’t worth the risk of having my son abused to have a man around. I’m proud of us for protecting our kids, even though it has meant being alone. 🙏🏼
I did the same thing. Two girls, i was only 30. Never remarried. 70 now. They never even said Thanks, mom. it hurts
I am sorry for your hurt. I never told my daughter, and she idolizes him. She wants nothing to do with me.Very hurtful. I’m so happy to have Jesus in my life. He gets me through each day.
@@pervingupta3336I'm sorry ❤
well done, you can always marry later,
Took a risk, GREAT MOVIE, some of us are damaged a little, some alot.
I'm an old man & never found what i was good at, never found lasting love nor joy, except a few fleeting moments.
I know God loves us & that He will make all our sorrows "worth it" One Fine Day. ❤ TX 🇺🇸 🙏🕊
I’m in the same boat except I’m a middle aged woman. Somewhat damaged, no known talent. Just out of a relationship of over 23 years that should have ended much sooner and am about to move back to my home state of Texas to start over. I would call all those years wasted if not for the two wonderful dogs that I never would have known if I hadn’t been in said relationship. They were my best friends and I wouldn’t trade the time I had with them. Hopefully, someday I’ll be in a position to adopt more 4-legged friends.
Good luck to you, Sir. I pray that we both have joy in our remaining time here on earth. But, either way, I agree that God will make our next destination worth any suffering we have experienced in this life.
@@elainej1827 if you had to change anything what it will be ?
Thank you Sir,, I appreciate ur words I'm 45,, and feel the same way about life and the here after,,my current life is horrible so I welcome any mercy 🙏🙏😊😊
@@abel25206 I would leave my parents at the age of 5 instead of letting the law do it at 15
We can only hope
When you are a person on the outside looking in ,It seems so easy to tell someone to get out of there to take the kids and get out of a sick abusive situation, but when you are the person going through it,nothing seems that easy ,it's the mental abuse along with the physical abuse can't think or see straight sometimes. GREAT MOVIE I would definitely recommend it !!! Thanks again RUclips!!!
I always protected my children.
If you're in a position to begin treating your children with the mindset And responsibility of an adult by age 13They will enjoy the rest of their childhood On out intoThe rest of adult hood. Educate them With the common sense God gave to understand behavior. And lead by example being extra tough in those areas while you can.society wants to get us to adulthood at 18 but it happens nuch earlier than that, this is why they are thinking and behaving more intentionaly @11 12 yrs.be smart enough to know where all goodness comes from so you can provide a source they will come back to because there is nothing good in us until we can acknowledge the true source.
Spot on for describing being on the inside. One doctor told a small female her head had been beaten in so much her brain waves had dropped to alpha level… that pretty low cognitive thinking…. Her story of beating was sickening to think what she endured getting beat on also showed her cognitive decline rendered helpless. Alpha wave state; I believe if you are slowing down to fall asleep seems definitive enough. Try psychological warfare being practiced on a wife when the husband didn’t spend 1 minute within any military structure. That some really sick cruel behavior
@@Justsobyjan Women should be recognized for There are keen sense of awareness especially in details Of all types .If the governed society can distract her from this an put those same senses elsewhere Besides the nurturing and raising of her family (Husband included) Then the family as a whole is a failure Because the essence of who Change is Is destroyed. Old behaviors have to pass away in order for new ones to be inherited. This is the way inheritance works. We practice it all day long between ourselves except when it comes to things that really matter Like behavior. Everyone standing around knows the bad behavior didn't pass away But they take the inheritance (Which is the control of the family) anyway. This is the fundamental foundation of true religion. You can't get anything from a will unless someone dies. If they say the meek shall inherit the Earth guess what has to happen to the Earth. If God has a will Someone has to come and do his will. If you will that your family's behavior must change What has to pass away what has to be done away with? These markers are put in our natural lives. That we might recognize how to have eternal family life and life eternal.
@@Justsobyjan in my case my children were not being beaten ,but still it was important to show them life wasn't supposed to be the way it was in our home my ex was a good man but as years went on he suffered from schizophrenia he's gone now from cancer, I just know abuse is a hard thing for many to get away from
I found this movie extremely hard to watch‼️I made myself watch it to the end to see if any good came to the people who were living it. It reminded me of my home life as a child, and later as a wife, married to a man who beat his children. I wish i had the courage to walk out of the bad marriage, but at the time, i did not. Later, we did get divorced, but the harm was already done to all of us. We all are serving God, now, but oh how I wished our lives changed earlier so the harm and trauma never happened, but praise God, He really does forgive and helps us to change❣️❣️❣️✝️ Thank you , Jesus❣️❣️❣️✝️
I can't tolerate this movie or lets say true story,it made me sick,my nature is to retaliate, or do something,,no matter how hard it could it be ,I'd rather kill or be killed ,specially there are kids involve.Sorry man.
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Make sure your children get the counseling they need so that they don’t end up in abusive relationship with your grandchildren ❤
Jesus brought through the storm, just like he promises. Praise the LORD!
God Bless you and your family and I'm thankful to the Lord he has carried you and thr children through. He is a faithful God keep living for the Lord :)
Sad but true! Abuse is like a bad storm that leaves trails of destruction in many directions.
We need to stop tge generation of curses. My dad was very hateful, so so much abuse I became Vigalante
@@AuroraMora-f4c SO sorry, I can relate very much so 😞
I was born with a golden heart and by 4 years old I was Jaded. I became a track star, and a winner in most ways & I particularly became a warrior. My future was taken and even now I feel I dont belong with humans on earth. My father did this to me. I dont trust men at all and I am single at 65.
It is true what they say, if you have nothing to lose you become dangerous. over 200 fights... 0 losses. Good thing I still have love and great kindness for innocent animals.
Big Sister wanted him dead. I was never sure what might happen.
Childhood trauma follows us around one way or the other
People that don't go through this type of thing don't get what it is like and why it can effect you for the rest of your life.
Isn’t that the true 😞
I AM a childhood trauma survivor. "Christian" family, too. Read your stupid bible. You destroyed our lives. I owe you NO FORGIVENESS. EVER.
Yes, it does !! Some of us can hide it better than others, but we cannot hide it from ourselves .
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Incredible real life depiction..the writer, the director and the actors..well done! Heart breaking story but we all know these things go on in this world..they shouldn’t but they do! Excellent movie!
Finally, thoughts on the movie!
I lived this. Cant watch. Dad hit my oldest sis and she died young at 52 from aneurysm at. Base of neck, where hed hit. Bless her heart. She saved us 2 younger ones. Alcoholism must be treated.
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there is so much of this abuse hidden in every walk of life and poor and rich and christian and not christian and on and on it goes.
This happens more often than you think. It’s just hidden people are embarrassed to talk about it.. my mother’s second husband, my stepfather used to beat me like this and send me to school with a bruises all over my face, swollen, first and second grade. I’m finally the principal of the school stepped in help. My mother never did anything just told me it was all my fault to this day. I have a contentious relationship with her. She never said she was sorry and I have a learning disorder as a result repeated head trauma. I’m glad there’s movies like this to let the Public know and nowadays it’s a crime not to get the authorities involved if there’s child abuse.
only Jesus can restore you! heal everything, including you thoughts, that has damage they way you think about things, trust etc, when you become a mother that nothing of her is passed on , as it can without you knowing it it will be passed on. only Jesus can help you get rid of the evil as it did for me. Jesus said, '' I will bind up your wounds'', Psalm 147:3 no professional council can restore you , or other false religion meditation , etc.
Sorry for your suffering as a child, it’s a hard show to watch and you lived it. Thanks for sharing that’s true courage.
I also have learning disabilities due to getting a fist to the head for doing something wrong and this comes from a biological father my learning disabilities my parents always said was because I was stupid and couldn't learn anything I didn't graduate from high school because of this and I was scared of men for alot of years.
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I'm so sorry. May I ask if your mom had to has some type of mental disorder to have allowed that abuse against you? It can't be normal to see your own kids being abused and think it's ok. I'm sorry you dealt with that.
Such a sad and triggering story. We had a stepfather who was psychology and physically cruel to myself and older sister. Both she and I still cringe, half a century later at the sight and sound of certain things. Mother was too weak to do anything. It may fade a bit, but these things never go away.
There are times in life when it fades, but then something will happen and bring it all back.
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I am so sorry for the life you went through. May God bless you. Virtual hug from South Africa xx
@@R3J8V91 it has and always will. We cope.
@cattleawhitmore9172 we survived. And we help others who face this. There's always a silver lining some how. Thanks for the virtual hugs. Back at you!
Abuse is real and you never forget it
You are so right about that.
@@robinbearden7158 Amen
It makes you realize that animals are more resilient than humans… because you can take a badly beaten and abused dog, cat, etc. from the shelter, and they will learn to trust and be happy again over time in the right environment with the right person. I’m not saying we’re not as intelligent as them but from what i’ve seen in 53 years people are not nearly as resilient.. and often they go on searching for the same kind of person that messed them up in the first place.🤷🏻 No judgement, just sayin’… we have more to learn from animals than they do from us, most likely.
Good movie- very sad and comes to show how the hate/drunkeness of a father or stepfather can destroy a family
But what happen the mother, here is more woman than mother, cobard... like somebody I knew.
In many families, the mother is the abuser.
It's way worse when infidelity by the "so-called' wife, rips a fmily appart too, especially when the son (her natural son) wanted to stay with his adoptive dad (adopted after the marriage), such that within a few years, of NOT getting enough "visitations" back to his Dad, he wrote to a family court Judge and requested he be returned..
The judge agreed after having a combined session in court, to be TOLD by her, that the "judge" needs to tell the adoptive Dad he won't be gettig any right to visit?
Whereupon the family court judge abruply stood up (beatroot red) and stated
NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO - IN MY COURTROOM, and told the lawyers to "instruct your client" (and left the room)
I was told to "wait" in a side room, and after about half an hour, one lawyer (not mine) came back and asked me if it would be OK for me to take him home that day, as I had been awarded FULL custody, and if I wanted, I could chose what days per fortnight, she could have for visits from him.
BUT the travel fares had to be paid in advance, as well as his return ticket back to me?
That was because the family court judge (and my adopted son), knew which "parant" was the better one to live with, who cared about HIM (and not about getting a lot of "men" through her bedroom).
Some wounds NEVER heal.
Through God everything can be healed. 🙏🏼
They do .
Called resilience 😊
It’s a gift from God .
As a child around 6 years old, my dad hurt me too. He is a alcoholic narcissist. Because I decided to charge my father, my mom, brother, sister in law and my best friend of 30 years dumped me. They wanted nothing to do with me. It's been a terrible life. Most of my life, I just pretended when i was around my family, friends and co-workers that i was managing as a single mom. When I had a hit and run car accident, it was not my fault. I had a breakdown. I wasn't the same after that, I was crying, sleeping all the time. People in my life have really let me down. I still suffer from depression. I think I was always was depressed, with complex PTSD and chronic pain. I exist, there is little joy in my life. Everyone just deserted me. I'm glad for my adult children. They are with me and im glad or I'd have no one. This has been years now. Since 2007 when I had a car accident, everything just went bad after that. I didn't do anything wrong, I been punished for doing nothing.
I was sexual assaulted, bullied, beaten by men. It's been a very sad life. I can relate. Children getting sexual assaulted is a life sentence. You never forget. God bless all children, women and men who are abused in anyway. I pray for you. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
You got that right...
A woman staying with an abusive man is so wrong, but allowing him to beat and abuse your children is criminal!
I agree. I think a woman like that is as bad or worse than an abusive man.
My thoughts exactly. I would rather run away with my kids and ask for help than to allow someone to abuse my children. He was a drunk, they could have left anytime he was passed out.
I did leave but to get away i had to leave my children behind. Sleeping out in a frozen February and slowly building a little bit of a life I was able to "kidnap" my children to safety.
I am a very adventurous person. I think that many people underestimate the amount of control and abuser has over his victim. It wasn't always as it is now. With restraining orders and hidden shelters. Threats of death are very common.
Be careful how you judge.
@@karensmoak2816 Do you really think you have the right to judge a victim? Have you yourself ever been close to a situation like that?
This doesn't mean that I condone despicable drunk behaviour, or put up with any kind of violence. You'd be surprised if you knew just how many people live in fear, and remain in silence for fear of even worse reprisals. The fact is that the "law" is usually pretty useless, because it's based on thuggery as well. Most judges are corrupt, and actually, there's very little true justice in this pretty rotten world we live in.
Don't forget, the mother in this film was already diagnosed as very ill, with a Damocles sword over her head. Maybe a little more understanding ,eh?
You are making a victim responsible for what a man does? Where is the outrage towards the man?
Scotty was right when he told the little boy that he would have to fight for himself, because there would be no one to help him. So true.
If your into true life stories then this is a great one...
I heard my mom saying once before she and my dad met he used to beat women.
My mom was my best friend and I grew up thinking if he ever did any harm to her I would've killed him myself with my own hands and the older I get the more I believe he knew that.
She was my everything and although he was always the provider, he spent his whole life working to make sure we had all our needs covered, there was always a thin line between him and myself which didn't really exist between him and my kid brother. I loved him dearly and I knew he loved us all but I always kept an eye open in case he tried to do anything to my mom.
Thanks God he never did.
Maybe she wasn’t telling the truth, funny that all those years he never abused your mum isn’t it , i think your dad deserved better from you than you always thinking that of him !!
I did the same to protect my Mom. ❤
your mom is not your best friend that is bizarre,!!! you have introduced to the world, as you 'friend'' , not as you mom. do you introduce her to your friends '' this is my best friend''? , and does she also introduce you to her friends as '' he is my best friend'',? is she part of your '' circle of friends' when you go out with them , do you go out to the movies,, restaurants, dance ,parties with her and she is part of your friends?? that is disrespectful !! your mom is your mom a different role than a friend, a friend is not your mom either .
Who the hell are you to say how he thinks and feels about his own mother! @Daisy.florina
If my dad never lifted a finger against my mother, I wouldn't believe her that he used to beat women (specially in plural). You say you might be the reason he never lifted his hand against her, but imagine when you weren't born yet or in your earlier years, there's nothing you could've done then and yet he didn't hit her. Maybe she heard rumors or maybe he did have a 180-degree change of heart that involved Jesus. If he wasn't born again or left alcoholism or drugs, your mum might have lied to you.
I was abused..Found myself screaming at times during the film. This is real and it f#cks us up for life.(I'm 68 now)
It really does , I wish it didn't but it does.
👉FORGIVENESS FORMS FOUNDATIONS FOR FUTURE FORTITUDE
✝️🕊️ JOHN 3:16
The Lord Jesus knows rejection, and He was beat severely bad, by His stripes He has healed our bodies, plus minds, if we allow Him too!
I was severely beat for years as a young girl, plus stepdad was a pervert.
Forgiving him, as well as, my xhusband has healed my mind, and the Lord has used me to help many who were victims. Hating the abuser only destroys a person in their mind, and body.
It’s not worth holding onto the hate, and revenge as a person only suffers more.
This goes on more than anyone knows. Sometimes one child takes all the blame. For no reason.
My husband was that child that took it for the other children. It messed his head up but he never touched me or our son!
The mother is horrible to allow her husband to beat her son like he did. The older brother wasn’t much better, pretending to be asleep while his younger brother was beaten with a baseball bat.
The older brother was the one who took all the beatings. The younger one looked away , you have them mixed up .
@@valhipkiss4011 Um sorry, you were not paying attention.....the younger brother took the beatings.
@@valhipkiss4011I’m sorry but Scott (baseball player) was the YOUNGER brother
@@valhipkiss4011 the one who took the beatings was the younger brother. The older brother was the one pretending to sleep
Fear does that to you.
The mother disgusted me how dare mothers let some other man beat your children
Yes, she was disgusting because she had a choice, she could leave, and rather than be hit she let her kid be hurt. When she scolded her husband not to hit Scotty in the face, husband made it clear it was him or her, and she shut up fast letting the boy be beaten. Hated her character and how she allowed the favoritism of one and the scapegoating of the other. Was Lattimer supposed to be Scotty's actual father?
FEAR, MAAM
'mothers are the nurturers, the love of a mother is the best and she has the children best interest' mothers love is so special ' this a myth!!!! from society making such to be true and programing our mind to believe such lies, mothers are not all love the movie we see she did not love the children she loved him the abuser instead she protected him instead of her children she was weak and her interest was for her husband and her self not her children, if she was all nurturer than she would have protected her children she was pretending to care . MOthers are not nurturers, is from fairy tale books, and society distorted view the evidence is found from movies like this one and there are many stories like it about mothers not loving their children and protecting them .
In the USA the court may demand it. I'm forced to pay my ex to abuse my minor children in every way known to man including SA. So it's normal in America.
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Forgiveness is easier said than done but it's possible, this movie tells a story of so many families and how hard it makes on those in involved. Great movie
I chose not to be like the persons who mentally and physically abused me, I learned to forgive them, so I wouldn't turn into them, God loves us, I gave my 2 son's a life I never had. 😊
There you go…good for you.
Great way of thinking. I'm glad your kids had you
Sumo, I guess that makes you a hero
I am a cycle breaker!
Just because a person goes through cruddy things growing up it doesn’t mean they have to be cruddy grownup people.
Only Jesus can help us when someone abuses you. To forgive is from God.
This movie is very real. It’s sickening.
The movie isn't sickening, Patricia.... It's the portrayal of an all too common REAL Life circumstance of a brutal, hate-filled, alcoholic stepfather that DULY makes you sick..... in your heart. 💔
What concerned me equally was that the school counselor, played by Eric Roberts, did NOTHING when he observed time-after-time the "results" of physical abuse, but Did Not notify Police... 😧
@@patriciaegan7244
No, it’s heartbreaking 💔 as many endure such abuse. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Forgiveness is the key ...it doesnt make what that person did to you okay..it sets you free from the anger and bitterness so you can be happy...i was abused as young teenager and it followed into my adulthood by my mom and i had to forgive her..i had so much hurt in my heart ..like this man here,i felt chosen by her out of two other sisters for her to treat me wrong and i couldnt understand why.
So sorry you had to endure all that! Glad you found happiness. I almost quit watching because I can't stand foul language that literally makes no sense; but I realized this is such an accurate portrayal of many life stories, so I watched the whole thing. Glad Scotty buried his baseball stuff instead!
Forgiveness allows you to bury things, just as surely as Christ died and was buried for us, but rose again to give us new life in Him, if we believe Him! Thanks for sharing your story and your first statement.
One man really did destroyed one whole family.
Who had talented.
Who had loving hearts.
Highlights alot , it's not just physical scarring , it's a lifetime.
That said it's a bleddy good movie highly recommended ❤💔
That was a great movie! I had to pause it a few times, my chest got so tight from old horrible memories.
Worth the watch
If this is truly a true story, I would never acknowledge my mother or brother again once I left them
News flash- Child abuse and domestic violence is a "true story" that happens EVERY SINGLE DAY. Do you live under a f-ing rock?
(@home) We are not all monsters dear one! Many of us just want to love and be loved. To look after and care for someone and if so, then their children also. Some of us are God fearing men of values. I’m really sorry for your loss ma’am. Chris, Western Australia 🇦🇺
Thank God there are some good ones ❤️ I just haven’t happened to run into any of them
I lived through this kind of life...but in the end i won. Because he is gone and i lived a good long healthy loving life a
You reap what you sow😢😢😢. Every Dog get his day. I faced a true account.. my children were young.. and before they got to their second birthdays I took them away from that abuse... some women tolerate abuse... and it is sad to see that.. me personally I had to fight😮
@@christineguzman7808 Women can teach men a lot about fighting in bravery
But it's best done when they're a little boys
We're not called the bride of Christ for nothing The female is ordained to look And pay attention to the smallest things Women can teach the church how to protect the word because it changed you so much
Good for you
U did the right thing
Yeah, and I've got a problem with the cop brother who keeps suggesting abusive dad should be forgiven when cop brother didn't get the beatings, not to mention his intended career taken away on purpose. "oh, I love you son, it was the alcohol"....nah, if you LOVE someone, nothing can induce you into physically beating them, not even fermented liquids.
You never seen what alcohol really does to someone I'm thinking
Truth
@@trevorjefferson6652excuses r like assholes everybody has one
I Am hoping all stepfathers are seeing this movie!!!😢
Let's not forget Stepmother's have hatred towards the children that their Husband had before They married again, that's silent abuse,that you grow up remembering.
@@judithreed5433I've seen personally, more toxic step mothers than step fathers. And this is coming from someone whos bio mom is a POS and my was step mom adopted me. She is everything my biological mom wasn't.
@@tyjohnston5889 Well that's good you had a better relationship then I did.
Why?
@tyjohn5889,sorry I really didn't,but would rather carry mine to the grave,I can't say everything.
A person can say or do things when under the influence & not realize/remember the pain that persons actions left.
The person Receiving that pain will never forget . Can Never Forget & forgiveness is none existent.
This movie was so full of raw emotions that many can relate to or feel the pain. The cast was excellent in portraying real life, & thank you for all that was behind the scenes.
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We truly remember everything and it shapes who we become. Sometimes we never get over it
@@NancyCapps-w5e
Yes, it lasts for a lifetime & a change takes place. You either collapse or get stronger & move forward. 💪👵🏻👩🌾❣️
15 min. In and this movie is starting to get under my skin!! How can a mother turn a blind eye to her kids getting abuse!!?
I assume more than one fear, probably ...
@LeslieG-js2kn I can't even assume that. Between my children's life and my life!! I will put my life on the line for my children at any given cost!!!
@@jennysayaseng4521thank you!!! That would be the day that I would ever let a man abuse my children
The same way our mother allowed an alcoholic stepfather to molest every one of her 5 daughters for a period over 20 years.
My mom was the abuser
This film hurts my feelings so bad! I was physically, mentally, emotionally, and sexually abused as a child! By my own father. I was the one chosen for abuse. Don’t know why? But it hurts to see such unforgiveness. I didn’t forgive my father for many years . I did not want him in my life whatsoever! I left home at 17. But God showed me I had to leave him to God! To release the hurt and let God heal me! And he did! Praise God! My father died without ever telling me he was sorry. Hurts a lot , but I learned God is a father to the fatherless! That’s how I got through all of it! Very hard, but God is gracious and kind!
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What a brilliant movie. I just thought I take a quick look 😂 and couldn't stop until the end. Nothing got done for 2 hours
Me too. x
He didnt kill his abuser, he buried his dreams that his step dad beat him so bad that he couldn't play ball
😂😅
When he asked his step father ...'Why me..! ?' because, the brother was in fact his biological son. That's the reason why he did not kill his step father.
@@melodiec8226 No one ever said that in the movie? This is so dumb the cop brother goes to pops finds Scott and 2 dead intruders with guns and he lays the blame on Scott when it was self-defense? This is an awesome movie (ruined for me) because that just does not make sense at all? So they are hiding two self-defense murders, and the cop brother gets investigated for murders, when it was all self-defense and they never had to hide anything at all, am I the only one that sees this?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤬🤬🤬🤬If in the end Scott did not kill pops, what was the confession letter for? Surely Scott wouldn't have confessed to killing those two intruders because it was self defense this movie makes no sense!
@@jeffeverett1599 agreed. parts are confusing. would like a commentary to go with it.
@@jeffeverett1599so soooo glad I found this comment because I was thinking the EXACT SAME THING! 1st, why hide the bodies at all when it was clearly self defense? !!! 2nd, I kept waiting and waiting, even watching thru the credits (you know how sometimes they’ll overlay the hook right at the end mixed in with credits etc) for them to tie it all together by the confession letter being from jimmy (drunk stepfather) taking the blame for the two justifiable self defense killings- that way Scott was finally set free. Aka not on the hook for those two murders and resting sound knowing jimmy was gonna die in six weeks. The fact that they didn’t do this, or tie it up some other intelligible way killed the whole movie for me. Shoot, I would’ve even taken the sappy predictable same ole same ole where the woman at the bar saved Scott from killing jimmy and she ended up being Scott’s forever woman and they rode off into the sunset happy and flash forward ten years later and both brothers and all their wives and kids were enjoying a nice family cookout together 😂😂 for Pete’s sake give me SOMETHING 🤦🏼♀️
My gran was an abusive alcoholic towards my mom, until one day she fought back, but the scars never go away.
That’s true…. You learn to live with them with a lot of support
This is how the Lord said to forgive and I will forgive you
Sorry I don't speak much English but I learned a lot from this movie to the best of my ability, thank you for the instructive essay.🎉🎉🎉
That boy's stepdad is why they make rat poison
Those children had not one but two abusive parents?
And freeze on fluid🤫😉(anti freeze)
😂😂😂😂❤
Absolutely, Excellent Story, Filled With Sadness and Truth, Gracefully Told 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Excellent Movie. Thanks!.
That abuse happens in REAL life, and scars emotionally🥺🥺good movie!
Happened to me 😭 and it definitely leaves scars
@@maureenmeagher6415 sending hugs and prayers 🌻💕🙏🏼
Powerful. Heart filled.
My first marriage was very abusive, to this day i dont want a bat near me. I took my 1 yr old and planned my escape acrss country. My fear is next would be my daughter and i know i would then be wiling to go to prison to take him out. 3 years of therapy helped but caution will always prevail. 7 yrs later i met the most kindest man, after 5 yrs i married him. Why 5 yrs? I was waiting for his bad side to show so i could tell him go away. He adopted my child. He saw the pictures and knew if he ever hit me he would be arrested and was not allowed to discipline my child. 46 yrs later he was the best decision for my daughter and i.
Ladies find a way to get away, call cops, stand your ground in court, get pictures, get into a shelter if need be. Just get out! Its not always easy but its always worth it.
Leaving no matter how well planned is not always the end of it...they follow you..find you no matter and won't leave your life or the kids..there are those who truly won't stop or give up..with those..leaving.. Plus..a backup are needed
You are an exemplery woman!!! You not only left toxic but also never let toxic attract and find you again. Breaking generational curse at its best!! Thanks for sharing your story
I don't understand why people think they're safe if they threatened someone with being arrested ! Not many men are scared of jail . Unless they are there for SA on children . Those maggots don't have it real easy in jails or prisons , even though nowadays they get more protection than back in the day . Sounds like you should say that you found a real man who understands that it's wrong to abuse women & children , because they deserve to be treated with the most respect & love he has to offer . I stepped into a relationship with a divorced mother who had 4 kids . 3 who were already grown & not living at home . Her youngest daughter was 12 or 13 when we decided to live together . I never ever tried to be her child's father , she had her own . But I did have rules . Of course it was her mother's job to correct her if needed . Not mine .. but since 2005 , my step children (all 4) have given us 6 grandchildren & 2 of those gave us 3 great grandchildren . Believe me , I'm a protecter of my 3 granddaughter's , 3 great granddaughter's...oh , hopefully another one on the way 😂😂 I was raised around a step father who beat my mother every time he got whiskey drunk . He never beat me or my younger brother . But I've never forgotten the times my mother tried to duck behind me as a child , to keep from getting hit . Once I got around 13 / 14 years old . I caught him passed out and beat him with a "walking tall" stick . That was around 1975/1976 ...from then until the day he died in 1983 , he never laid a hand on her ever again ... and no , I've never followed that kinda behavior I was raised around . People can blame that type of behavior on alcohol , drugs or the way they were raised . But that's a piss poor excuse if you ask me . If a man truly loves & cherish his woman & children , he wouldn't abuse them . He'd protect them at all cost ... I truly hope every woman and child never has to be put through abuse by some piece of chit . But if they do , get clear of the BS . No second chance either . If they do it once , they'll do it time & time again .
It’s hard to forgive the people that hurt u and it don’t matter how long it’s been
True. I traveled for a time & would stop at highway exit restaurants/stores & would buy again & again, Christian books on how to forgive, have always read philosophy type books, Gandhi type books, etc. Till this day I cannot forgive or forget the verbal abuse of a narcissistic mother who everyone else thought was the best & funniest mom there was. Just like some husbands, "Oh, what a great guy", Oh, Yeah ? "Well, you live with him!"
Amen sister, I've been thru hell for 60 years an will probably live thru hell what time I've got left.But I love my best friend that would be God,he pulled me thru some really bad times an has been my foundation of life.❤
Great movie, sad and a real tear jerker 😢 but I loved it.
The best ,you never know what somebody is going through Thank you for this opportunity to WATCH ALL THE WAY FROM BEGINNING TO END !!!!!!! ❤
Not sure why the school principal (Eric Roberts) didn't get the police involved early on after seeing clear signs of physical abuse.
Ditto
I miss my kids and I was blessed with a good stepfather. Now I am a stepfather just trying to do good show them Jesus and love tha neighbor
*WOW....* now _THAT_ was an emotionally unnerving, truly heart-wrenching portrayal.... 😲
Not surprising that the "suggested", equally severe physical abuse of the mother was never "dramatized".🤐
Personally, the baseball bat scene against Scott in bed had MY "trigger finger" *_Locked And Loaded..._* 😎
And that scene's beating is what obviously led to Scott's later physical problems that Destroyed his career.
I am just 100% SICKENED that the high school baseball coaching staff Did NOT Notify The Police when they obviously SAW Scott's repeated injuries that, in fact, prevented him from playing ball = Time After Time in the regional high school baseball league = Equally SHAMEFUL by that staff. 🧐😨🖕
Yes, I was wondering what year was that, anyway I wouldn’t ever allow a drunk looser attack my children like that or I would have lost my head and make him pay. I love the Lord but I don’t understand how a mother would allow that abuse on the children.
I was abused throughout my whole childhood. Later in life when I went back to the town I lived in as a child, and you would not believe the number of people who came up to me and said they knew what was going on and No one did anything.
@@R3J8V91I'm so sorry you had to go through that and no one helped you,if I was there and knew what was happening to you I would have helped you 😞
@jaime8743 There are still good people in the world. Thank you!!
@@R3J8V91 very sad :(.
I’m a single mom, been divorced 10 years. Been single for 5. Staying that way until my son is grown. People are too crazy
Not every man is like this. There good men out there. I'm one of them
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Forgiveness is a choice.
@@marthaelenalimon9357
For many , forgiveness can not be given. The trauma is so ingrained in your heart & soul that forgiveness is impossible.
Unless one has gone thru such abuse , they can’t understand WHY a person stays &/or can’t forgive, if they’re fortunate enough to get away from the abuser. Kiddos to those who are able to forgive 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Fantastic movie, brilliant acting ! thank you
Hate will kill your soul
Though talking about your feelings helps release that anger and hate! Listen and have compassion ❤
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I don’t think so Talking can make it worse.
There is no way I would allow anyone to abuse me nor my children. You will be in jail if you do.
The man destroyed everything around him and now he repented but gained a lot of enemies and destroyed many other lives. All this is what he sowed
Suspenseful movie. I felt so bad for his younger son and mother. Brought back a lot of memories...
Great movie!! Very intense!!
Ol' Jimmy never quit making excuses for his behavior. That's not true repentance.
Awsome drama!!
All narcissists need 3 supply people in their life: the golden child, the ignored one, and the scapegoat.
Hello, nice to meet you 👋 I’m the scapegoat of my DNA sharers - and you’re exactly right
Im the ignored one@@Scapegoated_Soulmate
I was the wife to my bisexual narcissistic husband 21 years,2 homes
wow i felt so sorry for the mother and her 2 sons.i just don't understand why the mother would of not kicked that rotten man out of her house,after seeing the abuse he did to her sons and feeling the abuse her self. its just so sad😪
things were much different 30some years ago... there was no help available, patriarchy was still very much the mainstream, there were zero women's shelters, no domestic abuse laws, women were expected to "stand by" their man... nothing like today.
He probably would have killed her
Some women apparently need a man in their life so badly they’ll tolerate anything…even seeing their children abused. It sickens me.
Still no excuse…where there is a will there is a way. Life is too short to let your children endure that kind of trauma.
Because she's a weak woman that never grew a pair to be able to take care of herself. I have no sympathy for weak women, I was a single mother so I know first hand how hard life can be.
I came from an abusive home, I got beat almost every day, which has affected my marriage my relationship with my daughters because I never developed any coping skills. I'm getting help now. I'm starting ttherapy. That's called. EMDR look it up
A lot of veterans have been helped with psychedelics in a safe place. Shawn Ryan Show
I am glad you are getting help. Don't quit.
Isa man😮
You are already starting the journey. It’ll be worse before it gets better, but it DOES get better. Best of luck in your journey. You are a survivor.
The mother and her freaking abusive man destroyed these 2 young men life. She is the one that needs to be sentenced to live in prison. SOB , she ruined her kids life just to be with a freaking wasted man. My gosshhh what’s wrong with some women??!!!😡
What’s wrong with all those abusive men?
@@lizhou3240thank you! Agree.
She said not on the face, you can hit them, it is OK. Terrible!
Women weren't empowered to go against men and it was way harder back then, no safe houses, government intervention to give a woman a place to stay, money to eat with.😢 Thank goodness people have become more enlightened and help is a little easier to find.
I attended our stepfather’s funeral, and cried. I guess tears that knew he would never destroy another life again. As for my mother…she is the one who allowed it to happen. I hold her responsible for the abuse. I cared for her until I couldn’t stand her bitter rejection anymore. I refused to go to her bedside as she lay dying with my siblings there. I waited until she died and then my son and myself went to say our goodbyes. She chose him over us, that can’t be changed. Lives affected forever.
Great movie
Abused as a child growing up and never feeling love. I finally found out what a loving functional family is like when I was 18 and taken in by the family of a friend. I have been married 50 years now and have two daughters. I had a 42 year career in nursing. Through God all things are better and the hardness leaves your heart. God teaches us to forgive and I have been able to do so.
What a wicked man the stepfather is 🤬
Wow the cop brother is a coward even as an adult. He absolutely acts like the step dad towards Scotty. Crazy powerful movie 🎥🍿
This movie was harder to watch knowing it was based on a true story.
Some of the abuse hits home...
You cant judge anyone unless you have been in that situation,Its easy to say you would of walked away when you were not there.This is an award winning movie and I hope Adam and Shawn get actor of the year awards.This movie will touch many hearts and lives.Every father mother stepdad boyfriend should see this and every young girl and guy before its too late.
What kind of mother would allow her kids to be treated like that? She is responsible for the abuse by allowing it. 3 against 1, really?
I lived this!, in the 60s, my mommy was 5'2, no education indian, told to shut her mouth like us kids, we got our asses beat every day by a drunk, I let my dad die alone!
My mother ran so many times with us young 3 girls, and he found us, and beat us," go f**k your opinion, you didn't live in thier shoes in the 60s, cops didn't get into domestic violence!!
F**k your opinion
you dont know what you are talking about, and your ignorance shows. it is NEVER EVER the fault of a victim of abuse for not saving themselves
@@SandyLumpkin you are ignorant
This movie made me cry. It brought up so many emotions. Childhood trauma doesn't go away easily. My father was a drunk and abusive to my mother and us kids. My husband didn't drink but was abusive in many other ways. No more contact after my life was threatened. The Bible says with an angry man, do not go and wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging they that are deceived thereby are not wise. Abuse can be a never ending cycle. I cried in front of the mirror tonight looking at this older version of myself seeing the toll that abuse has taken on me. As I cried I asked God to help me to deal with the hurt and pain I experienced through both my parent's relationship and my own. Some never come to the realization of what their actions as an abuser cause as a whole. Years can pass without even realizing the effects it still has on our Mental well-being.
Alcohol has spoiled so many houses all across the world. In Islam it's prohibited as it snatches the power to think correctly. I feel in Christinity also it's prohibited, isn't it.
It's not prohibited in Christianity,what's done in secret remains hidden.it is advised against in Christianity
All your actions have consequences.
Excellent Movie‼️
MUST WATCH 🍿🎥
I like how he returned and did his revenge. So whatch out you all step father or father!!
What revenge ? He let his step dad live and left him the house.
I didn't understand the ending
Great movie, very sad….perfectly put together!
i was anger grow up' because my father real and mom favored my brother and sis' they never could understand my anxiety and ADHD growing up' but im 59 now and i understand more' drugs have never helped in ways but i hold my on 'and i'm strong'...my Father changed his last name because his daddy was a drunk' been know that but the other family he was raised by they liked to drink also...i like this movie and understand it...
One strange movie .
A real "Bell Ringer" for some ...
All too close to home for others !!!
Worth the time watching for me ...
You can never erase the past just forget forgive and move on !!!
😢 Can't erase it, can never forget that it happened. Not sure about forgiveness but I can push the thoughts to the back of my mind to get through life. Every once in a while something triggers the awful memory and it all comes to the front of my mind again. Then I fight against it, to push it back to the bottom of my mind.
Thankyou for the excellent movie!
Very good film I really enjoyed it good story it karma come back to you when you treat someone bad ❤❤❤I would rate this film 5 ⭐ star's Well done to the person who made this film
WHO KNEW ... who knew Shawn Michaels is much more then a wrassler, i hope to see him in more movie roles like this. Who knew the Midnight Rocker & Playgirl PinUp could act so A list in such a powerful film that sends a message to everyone about how 1 person distroys so many lives in a hateful hurtful way.
I couldn't fully get into the movie because there were so many holes legally... Great acting and production
Good movie, all though heartbreaking.
I spoke to many women who were abused. I thought they were dumb for staying with their abuser. I did not realize the power of the sociopath. Sociopaths do not love others. They have no empathy. They control others. They enjoy power and control. They can charm people. Women like their line. The sociopath abuses then begs forgiveness . The woman forgives the abuser.......until the next occurrence. This continues ......abuse.....forgiveness..... Eventually the abuser stops asking for forgiveness and the abuse is non stop . Women should learn to leave the relationship at the first sign of abuse. Don't believe his forgiveness. If he really loved u.......he would not have abused u. That s the disease of sociopathy. Sociopaths can't be cured.......Please ....ladies.......if u are being abused....once .....leave. It does not tet better. It gets worse ....
The two guys walked in the house to kill the old man. His son killed them in self defense. Why was that not brought out in the movie?
@@ThomasSansing back then, in the woods, cops didn't care
@@ThomasSansing I watched cops walk away from my battered mother
That is exactly what I thought.
All they would have had done is called the cops and tell them what happened he was completely in the right.
No need for all that drama he did nothing
@@Misorganic1
You don't know the legal system although it has been before your eyes.
I truly enjoyed this , as some said it was difficult to watch, in places, but that's because it hit home, and made me feel some stuff I wanted to forget--
Great job by all who made the movie and thanks for posting OP and RUclips
The cycle of abuse is real. Someone in the family must decide to end it.
I love you brother.
I love you son.
No heard I love you Father.
But deep inside both Scott & Tommy
you will feel the foregiveness.
Real life!, happened ....
I enjoy action movies non fiction is my favorite to watch based on true historical events. My son thanks you too. Being able to watch mo ies free of charge is fantastic especially in these time's when my family and I are budgeting every dollar we make.
Sad but good movie. If you're a drunk and you don't want to destroy your family QUIT NOW!!!
That drunk is not thier family
You dont have to say "a drunk"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a G damn addiction!! one that is VERY VERY VERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY HARD TO GET OUT OF !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@XiomaraAyannaMelendez-sr1yi59 YES I KNOW!!!!!!! I am an alcoholic who has been dry for many years! I know how hard it is, but my family was more important to me than dulling my senses with booze!
@@XiomaraAyannaMelendez-sr1yi59agree, any form of addiction is so HORRIFIC 💔💔💔
@@cherokee1969 Step dad is still family.
I married young only to divorce young. After meeting my new husband now i from the beginning made it known to him that my children already had a Father. He did not have to Father them .He was ok with that. It was a way i felt to protect my children. My husband was ok with that and 30yrs later my grown children respect him. They have nothing bad to say about my husband.. it worked for us. I'm grateful for that
I believe this story
Thank you and prayers for the family. Hosted by Texas PGR.
Something times in life people don't always understand why some individuals do the things when they have a family but as you get older you will have the knowledge to understand you just have to learn from it but don't forget about it
Such an amazing movie. Thought provoking, emotional and stays with you long after its finished. Brilliant acting too. Forgiveness is so important even though I know it's hard to do 😢
Good movie, very emotional
I felt sad for all of them.
Some people can be very wicked at times.
May God Almighty have mercy on us