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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Rape & Sexual Abuse Movie Release: 1974 DVD Release: 05/25/2004 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 39 mins Studio: Vci Video Members Wishing: 9 Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Prison Film

Born Innocent, originally telecast September 9, 1974, concerns the plight of a teenaged reform-school inmate, played by Linda Blair in her first important post-Exorcist role. Committed for being a habitual runaway, Blair is, for all her surface toughness, unworldly and naïve. All this changes in the reformatory, with Blair rapidly becoming as hard, callous, and irredeemable as her fellow detentionees. Even upon her probationary release, she shows no sign of being "cured" by her incarceration. The film's most notorious scene -- Blair's rape by broom-handle -- was all the more horrifying because there was no pre-show warning issued by the network. So disturbing was the sequence that it was removed from all subsequent network telecasts of Born Innocent. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

One of the most harrowing and controversial made-for-television dramas ever to be produced, Born Innocent arrives on DVD courtesy of VCI Home Video. Presented as originally aired in 1.33:1 full-frame and offering audio rendered in English Dolby Digital Mono, this release also offers previews for other VCI releases and actor biographies. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide