Secret Cutting

Secret Cutting also known as Painful Secrets is a 2000 madeforTV movie directed by Norma Bailey, starring Kimberlee Peterson and Rhea Perlman, about a selfharming teenager, focusing on and her relation with family, friend and acquaintances. The story of the television film is based on the novel The Luckiest Girl in the World, which was written by Steven Levenkron. The film aired on the USA Network.

Dawn feels that she is unable to articulate the troubles she experience at school to her parents. In fact, she is quite successful in hiding both the truth as well as her pain from her family. When Dawn tries to connect with them individually, Russell seems unable to handle any type of intimacy with his daughter and puts up an air of passivity. Joyce, on the other hand, is incapable of discussing anything without relating it back to herself, thus constantly taking the focus away from Dawn, where it should be. Tragically, Dawn attempts to find salvation from these two shaky worlds in the arms of a 19yearold musician who, in reality, has little interest in finding out about her as a person, and only cares about how she can satisfy him physically.Back at school, another series of humiliating experiences leaves Dawn running to find solitude so she can again numb her emotional pain by cutting. This time, her activities are discovered by Lorraine, another social outsider in the high school with whom she can relate. A wellmeaning teacher, who observes blood on Dawns blouse, calls Dawns parents to the school to address the matter. ........

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