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The Killing of Sister George

The Killing of Sister George is a 1964 stage play by Frank Marcus. It was adapted into a 1968 film, starring Beryl Reid. It is mainly noted for its treatment of lesbianism. Both stage and film versions are fairly well known.
The central character is a female actor who plays a nurse, Sister George, in a long-running BBC radio series. She shares a house with a younger, somewhat immature woman, Childie; their relationship contains curious elements of psychological sado-masochism.
George discovers that there are plans to kill off her character in the radio series.
Although it is strongly implied that George and Childie are lesbians, as is a third woman who appears, this is never explicitly stated. The author intended the play as a farce, not a serious treatment of lesbianism, but because there was so little material about lesbians at the time it became regarded as such.
The film version was a fairly faithful adaptation. It starred Beryl Reid as George and Susannah York as Childie, and was directed by Robert Aldrich.

Basically: Young girl, plays with dolls, is exploited in many various ways by adult lesbians.

Lolita

Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955. The novel is both famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and main character Humbert Humbert becomes sexually obsessed with a pubescent girl. The novel was adapted to film twice, once in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick (Nabokov was involved in the writing) and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne.
A scholar in his late thirties, Humbert leaves Europe for the United States and moves into a rented room in the home of Charlotte Haze, after seeing her twelve-year-old daughter Dolores (whom her mother affectionately calls "Lo") sunbathing in the garden. Humbert, who has had a lifelong passion for "nymphets" (sexually alluring pubescent girls) - as a pre-adolescent, he experienced the loss of his childhood sweetheart to typhus - is instantly smitten, and will do anything to be near her. He immediately dubs the girl with the romantic nickname "Lolita," although he is the only character in the book to call her this (her friends and teachers refer to her as "Dolly").
Humbert picks Lolita up from camp and begins traveling around the United States, from one motel to another. The two become involved sexually, and they settle down together in a town, with Humbert posing as Lolita's father. Humbert becomes convinced that Lolita is seeing someone else, so they go on the road again, and he is sure that they are being followed. He is right: playwright Clare Quilty, an acquaintance of the Hazes, who first seduced Lolita at camp when she was twelve and used her in pornographic films, is tailing the couple. Lo now runs away with Quilty, while Humbert remains unaware of his identity.
He coerces Lolita into revealing the name of the mystery man. He tracks down Quilty and kills him, then dies in prison of coronary thrombosis. Lolita dies in childbirth.

Basically: Young girl of 12 seduces middle aged man and ruins his life because he can not satisfy her..

 

Bastard out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina is a 1996 film directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on a novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith. Jena Malone stars as a poor, sexually molested, brutally raped 10 year old girl.
In 1997, the theatrical and video releases of the film were banned by Canada's Maritime Film Classification Board. Ted Turner refused to release it. The video was eventually granted release upon appeal.

No nudity, no implied nudity

Basically: Young girl, plays with dolls, is raped by her step-father while they wait in the car for her mother to give birth. From then on out step father beats and rapes her when ever he feels low and depressed. She remains silent until one of his attacks nearly kills her.

 

Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American motion picture drama directed by Martin Scorsese. It is widely considered one of the greatest and most controversial films in the history of American cinema and frequently praised for its strong performances and gritty realism. The film also made stars out of both its lead actors, Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, the latter of whom was only thirteen years old when the movie was released.


Foster plays a 12 and a half year old prostitute. There is no nudity, no implied nudity.

Basically: Young girl, runs away from home, hits the streets and an annonymous taxi driver rescues her from life as a prostitute. No relation to Hound Dog at all except both actresses were 12.

 

 

Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass, an American movie from 1961, tells a story of sexual repression. Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Christian minister, the film was directed by Elia Kazan.

Deanie Loomis (played by Natalie Wood), a teen-aged girl living in a small town in Kansas in 1928, follows her mother's advice to resist her desire for sex with her boyfriend, Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty), the scion of the most prosperous family in town. In his turn, Bud reluctantly follows the advice of his father (Pat Hingle), who suggests that he find another kind of girl with whom to exercise his sexual desires.
Bud's parents are disappointed by, and ashamed of, his older sister—she is sexually promiscuous, smokes, drinks, and has had an abortion—and accordingly 'pin all their hopes' on Bud.
As the story progresses, Deanie is driven close to madness and institutionalized. Bud's family loses its fortune in the Great Depression, which leads to the father's suicide; and Bud takes up farming, which he had postponed because of his father's aspirations for him.
In the final scene, Deanie, home from the sanitorium after two and a half years, goes to meet Bud. He is now married to the daughter of Italian immigrants; he and his wife, whom he met while complying with his father's desire that he attend Yale University, have an infant child. After their brief reunion, Deanie and Bud see that they must continue their lives separately.

Bascially: Teenaged girl goes crazy because she holds onto her virtue.

 

 

Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby is a 1978 historical fiction dramatic film directed by Louis Malle. The screenplay was written by Polly Platt. The title is inspired by the Tony Jackson song "Pretty Baby", which is used in the soundtrack.In 1917, the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana. Hattie, a prostitute at the elegant home of Madame Nell, and her 12-year-old daughter Violet are the only ones awake when photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes by with his camera. He takes photographs of Hattie, and fascinates Violet. Over the next few months, Nell arranges for the auction of Violet's virginity, Hattie marries and goes to St. Louis leaving Violet behind, and Violet determines to marry Bellocq. Is this idyllic or is she just a girl wearing rouge, soon to return to childhood?
Controversy
* In addition to the subject of child prostitution, some ire was raised because of scenes involving a 12-year-old Brooke Shields appearing nude. Because of this, the 109 minute film was edited down to 106 minutes in some releases. The unedited version of the film is now available on DVD, but there is controversy amongst its fans because of differences in film dimensions, leading some people to believe that the film was either incorrectly matted or the victim of false letterboxing.
* Susan Sarandon provided a g-string for Brooke Shields to wear in most of her nude scenes so she would not have to be totally nude.

Basically: Child grows up in whorehouse, becomes part of the environment. Rescued by sensitive artist who marries her at the age of 12 and like Humbert Humbert fails to satisfy her.

 

Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American romance and adventure film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, produced and directed by Randal Kleiser. The plot is about two young children stranded on a tropical island after a shipwreck. Emotional feelings and physical changes arise as they reach puberty and fall in love. The screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart was based on the novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris. The film was marketed with the tagline "A sensuous story of natural love."
In the Victorian period, two young children are the survivors of a shipwreck.
Richard and Emmeline begin to fall in love, although this is emotionally stressful for them due to their general ignorance of human sexuality. Both teens' bodies mature and develop, and they are physically attracted to each other, but do not know how to express it. Emmeline is shown beginning her first menstrual period and being very frightened at first. Richard has many questions about what is happening to them, but has no answers; he wants to hold and kiss Emmeline, but when she rejects him he goes off alone and masturbates. Meanwhile, ever-curious Emmeline has wandered to the forbidden side of the island and discovered an impressive, Kon-Tiki-like idol there. Its shrine is covered with blood. Instinctively recognizing that this is a holy place, she kneels and prays.
Ultimately, after making up after a fight, they discover sexual intercourse. From then on, they make love quite often for several months, and eventually Emmeline gets pregnant. Although the audience is fully aware of Emmeline's condition, Richard and Emmeline themselves have no knowledge of childbirth and don't understand the physical changes to Emmeline's body.

Basically: Young girl, plays with dolls, grows up to become pregnant by her brother (not really her brother but seems to be). They die.

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Woman with male child selling what?

Writer/Director marries 18 year old step child. Wife finds nude pictures taken of step-daughter when she was younger than 18. No charges, no shame.

Britney Spears

After gaining an audience of tweens (nearly teenaged girls) with her pop songs with sexually charged overtones, Britney begins to peel off clothes when she becomes 18.

A woman at a concert in North Carolina was seen in the audience with her 4 year old daughter. The daughter was wearing a black leather mini-skirt.

 

 

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