lorcan-61881 Born Innocent is a 1974 crime drama film starring Linda Blair. It focuses on a girl called Chris Parker is sent to a juvenile detention center after running away countless times from her abusive father and her unfeeling mother's home,there she learns about sexual abuse of a teenage girl and soon turns to a whole new person. The film I think either premiered on Fox or CBS. The film's rape scene was banned in most country's after it influenced a few girls to rape an eight year old with a Coca Cola bottle. I really enjoyed this film,I sadly watched it when I was only 9 years of age but lookley I didn't see the whole film so that's good. Linda Blair(The Exorcist,Savage Streets)was very good in this film.Born Innocent is a very good film that people should watch if they have problems and stuff...no children should see this.

punishmentpark This made for TV drama wasn't bad at all. I had expected something more like a typical after school special or perhaps even a exploitation flick, but the story lines are worked out fairly well, there is hardly any (gratuitous) violence or nudity and it stays away from any kind of simplistic message in the end.The acting isn't great, but good enough for a small TV production like this. For Linda Blair, being 14 when the film was shot, some scenes must have been pretty heavy stuff to do - and in the IMDb trivia that is confirmed. This is supposedly her first film after her iconic performance in the horror classic 'The exorcist' (1973), and that film couldn't have been easy for her to do, either.As a cinematic experience, 'Born innocent' hardly has anything to offer (personally, I do appreciate the particular time and place, though - '70s America), but the film does focus on many aspects of the troubled youth in America, for instance, her family life, her life inside among the other delinquents and also how the counselors look at things. This makes for a complete story that will make you think.A small 7 out of 10.

moonspinner55 Disturbing, controversial NBC TV-movie, one of the most popular television-made dramas from the 1970s (regularly shown right into the '80s) has young Linda Blair fresh off "The Exorcist" and well-cast as a teen runaway facing hard time in a girls reform school. Gritty, documentary-like production filmed on a low-budget in New Mexico has (intentionally?) fuzzy sound and photography which may put some viewers off. The performances by the troubled girls, including Blair, are natural and compelling; Joanna Miles (a Carrie Snodgress look-alike) is sympathetic as a well-meaning teacher; Allyn Ann McLerie does a bravura dramatic turn in a clichéd part as a hardened housemother. The film's downbeat theme can be disheartening and difficult as an entertainment, but there are sensitive and moving sequences, and Fred Karlin contributes an evocative score. The sequence with Blair being raped by a group of girls using a toilet-brush handle caused so much controversy after its initial airing that the scene was dropped for the repeat (intact on DVD). Blair followed this up with a handful of other television stunners, and gained confidence as an actress with each one.

jeff-150 Linda Blair giving a post Exorcist turn as a troubled teen who has the bad habit of bolting every time her father belts her. Funny, seventies, almost exploitation movie. Best quote: Teacher" What do girls want to do with your lives" Girl "I want to get high!" Classic.