Search - Painful Secrets on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Adult Situations Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 10/20/2009 Format: DVD - Color Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: Vanguard Cinema Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama

The disturbing teenage phenomenon of self-mutilation gives substance to this standard "troubled daughter/monster mom" cable TV movie. Sullen, friendless schoolgirl Dawn Cotrell (Kimberlee Peterson) has been showing up at home with strange slashes on her skin. It soon becomes painfully obvious that Dawn is cutting herself to alleviate stress. Rather than deal with the problem like an intelligent adult, Dawn's mother, to whom appearances and total control are everything, merely hides all the knives in the house and orders her daughter to cease and desist. With no one to turn to -- certainly not her milquetoast of a father (Robert Wisden) -- poor Dawn resorts to even more desperate and destructive measures to work out her frustrations. Can compassionate therapist Dr. Parella (Rhea Perlman) come to the rescue before it's too late? Based on Steven Levenkorn's novel -The Luckiest Girl in the World, Secret Cutting originally aired over the USA network on May 30, 2000. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Sean Young - Joyce Cottrell
Kimberlee Peterson - Dawn Cottrell
Robert Wisden - Russell Cottrell
Taylor Stanley - Lorraine Rafeedie
Rhea Perlman - Dr. Parella