Movies Which Depict Sexual Abuse of Children (Not about child porn)

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In this tread about child actors in intense and/or disturbing scenes, at least four movies are mentioned in which there are scenes involving the sexual abuse of chilren.

In eight posts.

[ul]
[li]The Butterfly Effect (boy and girl are made to strip naked for the girl’s father’s camera) (no nudity on screen)[/li][li]Taxi Driver (a child prostitute befriends a disaffected Vietnam vet)[/li][li]Pretty Baby (a photographer falls in love with a child prostitute)[/li][li]The Exorcist (a young girl is sexually tormented by a supernatural force)[/li][/ul]

So I’ve come to the realization that this type of thing is more common than I originally thought.

Or is it? I turn to the SDMB movie buffs, in their infinite knowledge, to tell me how common of an occurence this is.

I can only think of three more:

[ul]
[li]Lolita (middle-aged man falls in love, and has sex with, a 12-year-old girl)[/li][li]Dazed & Confused (junior high girls are made to bare their breasts on command)[/li][li]The Tin Drum (a nine-ish year-old boy is fellated)[/li][/ul]

Any others?

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**Happiness ** This movie is so depressing on so many levels, not the least of which is a husband molesting his son’s friends. I saw it once a while ago so the plot details have eluded me. But I’m sure it’s IMDB-able.

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[QUOTE=HeyHomie]
[li]Dazed & Confused (junior high girls are made to bare their breasts on command[/li][/QUOTE]

Really? I must have missed that part the last three times I saw it. True, they were made to debase themselves and ask high school kids to marry them, and made to promise they’d “do anything”, but I don’t recall any hooters.

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Oh, and for another example, there was Lipstick, in which a girl got raped.

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At the beginning of the movies, where the going-to-be-seniors high school girls are hazing the going-to-be-freshmen junior high girls, ISTR that one of the conditions of their hazing was that they had to lift their shirts and show their bras (if not their boobs) on command. Maybe I’m not remembering this correctly.

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You’re not the only one who missed it.

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Bastard out of Carolina

I’ve never been able to watch this movie twice. Jena Malone, at 10 or 12 years old, gets violently raped by her stepfather, played by Ron Eldard.

Disturbing doesn’t begin to cover it.

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You must be conflating that movie with something else, or filling in a detail that wasn’t there. They were made to lay on the ground and immitate bacon frying. They were made to suck pacifiers. They were covered in various foods. And they were made to propose to boys. But I’m pretty sure there were no naked boobs.

Dude, maybe you were just smokin’ too much weed when you saw it. You know, George Washington used to grow acres of weed.

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Although it was never on screen, there was implied underage rape in Forrest Gump.

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I’m pretty sure the rape victim in Lipstick was a grown woman. She was discovered by her younger sister, though.

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He knew it would be a good cash crop for the southern states, man.

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Thanks for putting spoilers where we can all see them in the thread preview popup :mad:. I haven’t seen Butterfly Effect and knew about its content but no specifics…until now.

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Boys of St. Vincent

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I never saw it, but I have a vague memory of seeing a clip, and it was the younger sister that was raped. Actually, I think both of them were, by the same guy. Of course, this was from a clip from a movie I never saw, nearly 30 years ago. So naturally you may take my word as gospel. :cool:

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Sorry, Ludovic. I consider that a minor plot point and not a major spoiler. But if anyone else disagrees with me I’ll ask a moderator to put spoiler tags around it.

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What about The Basketball Diaries? The scene with the basketball coach in the shower stall. IIRC I realize that Leo was like 43 years old when he played the part :wink: , but wasn’t the character still in high school?

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And yet the last scene manages to be both wonderfully uplifting and redeeming, as well as funny in a “I feel sooo guilty for laughing” kind of way. :slight_smile:

I’ll add “The Magdalene Sisters,” which includes a scene of nuns sexually humilliating teen mothers and a priest molesting one.

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Regarding Bastard Out of Carolina, I can’t even look at that actor in anything else now. I just see a heinous rapist. Must be great acting!

Other movies with sexual abuse:
Delores Claiborne
Boys Don’t Cry – does that count?
** Sleepers
Stir of Echos** – Seems like there’s a young girl raped in that one…
Mystic River – There was abuse in that one, too, wasn’t there?

What’s with three Kevin Bacon movies all featuring children being sexually abused?

Note: if you go to IMDB, and search under “sexual abuse” there’s about a couple dozen… Many are made for TV movies and I didn’t want to read 'em all to find out how many were about children.

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The Prince of Tides has an extremely disturbing rape scene.

The movie Leolo depicts a prostitute jerking off two young boys through their underwear. I always go :eek: when I watch that scene…how the heck did they get away with filming it???

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The main character in *The Color Purple * … has two children by her step-father when she’s quite young. Her husband later attempts to rape her barely-nubile younger sister.