Sybil

Two-time Academy Award winner Jessica Lange stars with Emmy Award winner Tammy Blanchard in a new adaptation of the deeply moving account of a young woman whose childhood of abuse drives her to create multiple personalities to survive--the true story of Sybil.

After a suicide attempt, schoolteacher Sybil Dorsett seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Corneila Wilbur. Sybil confides that she frequently loses her memory and can't account for large blocks of time . . . and she slowly remembers the years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse inflicted by her mentally disturbed mother. During 11 years of sessions from 1954 through 1965, Sybil's 16 distinct personalities gradually emerge. Each reveals a different age, name and appearance--each created by, but unknown to, a girl trying to survive a harrowing homelife.