| Persephone
- Goddess of the Underworld |
The Bell Jar (Vestron)
Based on the semi autobiographical novel by
poet Sylvia Plath, this is the story of a young woman who suffers a nervous
breakdown in her effort to achieve personal and professional goals. |
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Black Narcissus
(Video America)
A haunting film about isolation, madness, spiritual
failures, and sexual frustrations that overwhelm five missionary nuns in
a Himalayan convent, with Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons. |
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Black Orpheus (CBS
Video)
The legend of Eurydice and Orpheus comes to
life in a tragic and passionate meeting at the Mardi Gras carnival in Rio. |
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Carrie (MGM/UA)
Sissy Spacek plays Carrie, a naive and lonely
teenager who discovers that she has the power to avenge herself against
her teen persecutors. |
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Days of Wine and Roses
(Warner)
Lee Remick and Jack Lemon play a young couple
caught in the trap of alcoholism. |
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Extremities (Paramount)
Farrah Fawcett plays a young woman who narrowly
escapes a brutal rapist only to have him return to finish what he started.
She fights back and eventually overcomes him. |
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Harold and Maude
(Paramount)
An unforgettable story about a wealthy, death
obsessed teenager who falls in love with a free spirited octogenarian,
played by Ruth Gordon. |
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Long Day's Journey into
Night (NTA Home Entertainment)
Katherine Hepburn, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason
Robards, Jr., and Dean Stockwell in Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical account
of his explosive home life. Hepburn playing the part of the drug addicted
mother. |
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'Night. Mother
(Warner Brothers)
Sissy Spacek and Ann Bancroft in a harrowing
study of a mother's attempt to stop her daughter from committing suicide. |
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Nuts (Warner Brothers)
Barbara Streisand plays a prostitute who has
killed a man and is being examined by the court to determine her competency
to stand trial. |
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Psycho (MCA)
Anthony Perkins plays Norman Bates in this classic
Hitchcock thriller about a psychotic young man who is obsessed by his dead
mother, Janet Leigh plays his victim. |
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| Artemis
- Goddess of the Hunt and the Animals |
Aliens (CBS/Fox)
Sigourney Weaver plays a fierce Amazon woman
of the future, out to protect her threatened child. |
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Among the Wild Chimpanzees
(National Geographic)
Documentary about Jane Goodall’s extraordinary
works with primates. |
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
(CBS/Fox)
Daryl Hannah plays Ayla, a Cro-Magnon woman
orphaned as a child and raised by Neanderthals who do not understand her
advanced intelligence. She is exiled by them and eventually finds her way
to the people of her birth. |
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Dressed to Kill
(Warner)
A psychiatrist is faced with a murderous puzzle,
the sudden, hideous slaying of one of his patients. Michael Caine, Angie
Dickinson, and Nancy Allen. |
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Gorillas in the Mist
(CBS/Fox)
Sigourney Weaver plays Diane Fossey, the Kentuckian
who abandoned the outside world to live with and protect mountain gorillas
in the rain forest of Rwanda. |
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About this information and the Authors:
The material for this article comes from a wonderful
book called, "The Goddess Within" by Jennifer Barker Woolger and Roger
J. Woolger, Fawcett Columbine publishers |
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