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Movies Survivors Say Accurately Depict Domestic Violence

  • By DomesticShelters.org
  • Sep 20, 2019
Movies Survivors Say Accurately Depict Domestic Violence
  • Waitress
  • Independence Day (1983)
  • Madea’s Family Reunion
  • Diary of a Mad Black Woman
  • I, Tonya
  • A Star is Born (2018)
  • Safe Haven
  • Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
  • Not Without My Daughter
  • Gaslight
  • This Boy's Life
  • Purple Rain
  • Dolores Claiborne
  • Take My Eyes
  • Something About Amelia
  • The Glass Castle
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  • Double Jeopardy
  • No One Would Tell
  • The Great Santini
  • Sleeping with the Enemy
  • Burning Bed
  • Enough
  • What’s Love Got to Do With It
  • Star 80
  • Precious
  • Mommy Dearest
  • The Girl on the Train
  • Unforgivable
  • A Cry for Help: The Tracy Thurman Story
  • Once Were Warriors
  • Rose Madder
  • The Color Purple
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • Dangerous Intentions

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