ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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.

tamstrat I saw this movie when it was originally shown on TV in 1974. It was controversial and shocking to say the least!!!! I was 13 years old and had never seen anything like that on TV before and the rape scene in the shower was all me and my friends talked about for days afterward. The storyline is fairly simple, Linda Blair, as "Chris Parker" gets in some minor scrapes with the law and is sent to a girl's reform school. There she goes from being "Born Innocent" to a swaggering thug over a period of time. The apathy of her parents was sad and the earnest counselor at the reform school tries to save her without much success. I have not seen the movie since the original airing but from what I am reading here the rape scene is deleted or radically edited. That is a shame because that scene, graphic as it was, really set the tone of the movie and let the viewer understand why Chris no longer remains "innocent". I wish I could get my hands on an unedited copy of this movie that made such an impression on me at the age of 13.

Brian Washington This film will always be one of the most controversial in the history of film. It is still hard for me to watch it and it is still a very brutal film to look at. You really do see how the juvenile justice system instead of rehabilitating kids eventually makes them even more hardened and eventually they will graduate to even more serious crimes. This film definitely drives that point home like no other in the history of television.

kita117 I just bought this movie out of wedlock. I thought it would be good because of Linda Blair being in it. The movie was an average movie not too good, not too bad, but boring sometimes. The rape scene with the broom seemed to be cut out a lot. My rating: 2.5 stars out of 5.