Circle of Violence: A Family Drama

Summary Georgia Benfield is at a difficult place in her life: her husband Pete has left her for a younger woman her teenage son Chris is unmanageable, and she's struggling financially when her widowed mother Charlotte moves in. Amid juggling a new full-time job, raising two children, and her failing marriage, the constant bickering between mother and daughter continues as it has ever since Georgia was a child. Finally at her wits' end, Georgia loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia herself had been abused as a child. As family and friends slowly start to learn of the abuse and long-buried family secrets come to light, both mother and daughter must learn to accept the past to change what is happening at present, to create a better future. View more details

Circle of Violence: A Family Drama

Directed : David Greene

Written : William Wood

Stars : Tuesday Weld Geraldine Fitzgerald River Phoenix Peter Bonerz

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Genres : Drama

Release date : Oct 11, 1986

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : California, USA

Production companies : Telepictures Productions Lorimar Television

Summary Georgia Benfield is at a difficult place in her life: her husband Pete has left her for a younger woman her teenage son Chris is unmanageable, and she's struggling financially when her widowed mother Charlotte moves in. Amid juggling a new full-time job, raising two children, and her failing marriage, the constant bickering between mother and daughter continues as it has ever since Georgia was a child. Finally at her wits' end, Georgia loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia herself had been abused as a child. As family and friends slowly start to learn of the abuse and long-buried family secrets come to light, both mother and daughter must learn to accept the past to change what is happening at present, to create a better future. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama

Release date : Oct 11, 1986

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : California, USA

Production companies : Telepictures Productions Lorimar Television

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Thalai Ezhuthu

Thalai Ezhuthu

Raj (Richard Raj) is a software engineer who lives with his widow mother (Meera Krishnan). He spent his childhood in a home for disabled children, where his mother worked for a living thus he has sympathy for the handicapped. After completing a degree in software engineering, he got offers to work in multinational companies but he decided to stay in India and works for a small company. Raj invents a device that can help the disabled people overcome their physical defects and conveniently complete their daily routines. After the presentation of his project, Raj gets death threats from a corrupt politician who wants to appropriate his project. In the meantime, Raj meets Pooja (Pooja Gandhi) and they fall in love with each other. Raj then meets with an accident and was rushed to the hospital. In a serious condition, the doctors save his life, however, Raj finds himself in a wheelchair and is now unable to speak at all. Meanwhile, his mother has a heart attack and was admitted to the same hospital, Raj needs money to save his mother. When Pooja met Raj by accident, she forcefully admits him to a mental hospital and Raj is tortured by the hospital staff Pachai (Bala Singh). Later, Pooja steals Raj's research and tries to sell it to potential buyers. Deputy Superintendent of Police Karthik (Saakshi Siva) is looking for Pooja, who escaped from a mental hospital a few months ago. Pooja turns out to be a person with mental health issues who can do anything for money. During her college life, she fell in love with a college mate but he didn't reciprocate her love because she wasn't rich. Therefore, Pooja suffered from an inferiority complex and her only goal in life was to become rich so she wanted to marry a rich groom. However, her parents fixed her wedding with a middle-class groom and her dream to become rich fell apart. Pooja then found herself in a mental hospital and managed to escape from there. It was only then that she decided to seduce Raj and paid a drug addict to cause Raj a serious accident. Finally, Pooja sold his project to a buyer but the software asks for a password. Pooja in panic goes back to the mental hospital and she threatens to kill Raj if he doesn't give her the password. At that time, DSP Karthik arrives and shoots Pooja to save Raj. Two months later, Raj receives widespread acclaims for his work. The film ends with Raj in a wheelchair celebrating his birthday in a home for disabled children along with his mother in tears and the mentally ill Pooja.

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