My fiancé and I were trying to find this lifetime movie with Nancy in it from 1989. Does anyone know where we can find it? I watched it on YouTube once 6 or 7 years ago and can't find it again. Help please?

Try ioffer:

http://www.ioffer.com/i/a-cry-for-help-the-tracey-thurman-story-192680102

*shudder* best of luck. I have the movie but couldn't watch more than 15 minutes of it.

Try ioffer:

http://www.ioffer.com/i/a-cry-for-help-the-tracey-thurman-story-192680102


Thank you

*shudder* best of luck. I have the movie but couldn't watch more than 15 minutes of it.


Yeah it was really hard for me back then but since I'm a trained social worker SI I wanna see it again

*shudder* best of luck. I have the movie but couldn't watch more than 15 minutes of it.

I agree. The critical scene where Tracey is almost done in by her abusive husband is one of the most disturbing things I have EVER seen on TV, and knowing that it happened in real life didn't help ease my queasiness. Both Nancy and Dale Midkiff did incredible work in that movie, as did TV movie stalwart Bruce Weitz as Tracey's lawyer.

The real Tracey remarried a few years after the ordeal and she seems to be happy with her second hubby. Sadly, Tracey and Buck's son hasn't turned out so well. In 2010, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison for drug possession with intent to sell. Before that, he was in and out of jail numerous times on drug, violence and weapons charges. (http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2010/08/05/news/doc4c5a3a6a02829802165539.txt?viewmode=fullstory) It seems that C.J. took his stepfather's last name of Motuzick.

Here's the actual court document from 1984 - Thurman vs. The City of Torrington, CT: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/vaw00/thurmanexcerpt.html

Yeah, I heard about her son...he was an abuser too. So so sad...

Nancy looked so pretty in that movie too; it just broke my heart even more. Those eyes and that vulnerable look after tough Jo, how did she do it?

I'm with you guys. Nancy did incredible work in that movie but I can't watch it anymore. I used to but it is entirely too disturbing.

But I also have to add this--Nancy should be dead proud of that performance. I read the reviews of this movie on imdb or some site like that and they were...mindblowing. There were so many woman who had gone through the same experience and were thanking Nancy from the bottom of their hearts for that movie. Bravo, Nancy, bravo.

This was Nancy's first post-FOL project, if I recall correctly. Here is an excellent review of both her performance and the movie without whitewashing anything:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UTAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AQMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6536,143878&dq=tracey+thurman&hl=en

nancy mckeon was brilliant in this movie.i remember i saw this movie when it originally aired in 1989 and i was 12 at the time.i was mainly watching it because nancy mckeon was in it and i had always been a fan of hers from the facts of life and i remember this being really scary because i had never seen a man hit a woman before and the way that she was being abused was terrifying to see and the brutal attack he eventually does is downright awful.it was mainly terrifying because this was a true story and the real tracey thurman really had to live that.it was very sad and angering to see that not only was this man abusing her physically emotionally and even at one point sexually but the police were not protecting her even when the police officer was there and clearly saw him stabbing kicking and trying to kill this woman he was doing absolutley nothing to help her.im so glad that the real tracey thurman sued the police and won but i hate the fact that they let the real buck thurman out of jail and that they only gave him seven years for the awful things he did to that poor woman and she probably still lives in fear of him to this day.noone should have to live that way.i'm a guy and i personally think that this movie is very educational to men and women for a lot of reasons one showing women that most of the time when a man puts his hand on you once he's going to do it again no matter how many times he say's he sorry or that he won't do it again and for the men to see if you have anger problems or issues or have been abused themselves or have any other issues and don't deal with them what it can turn you into.as for nancy mckeon's performance in this she was amazing after 8 years of seing her play tough girl jo for her to go from that to portraying an abused woman and be as convincing as she was is amazing.aside from the facts of life i have to say that this was her best role.

Something ironic is that Dale Midkiff, who played the violent, scary Buck Thurman and a couple of years later, a rapist/mama's boy opposite Elizabeth Montgomery in the 1991 TV-movie Sins of the Mother, is beloved for playing the kind, compassionate, strong Christian husband and father in Hallmark's Love Comes Softly series. Those movies were based on a best-selling book series by Canadian author Janette Oke, and directed by Michael Landon, Jr. Midkiff's on-screen wife was played by a pre-Grey's Anatomy Katherine Heigl.

It's a testimony to his acting talent that he can play such horribly violent men such as in A Cry For Help and Sins of the Mothers, and then play a strong but gentle Christian husband and father in the Love Comes Softly series, and be convincing in both. I saw him play Buck Thurman before I saw him in the LCS series, so it was a bit of a shock!!

I remember wanting to see that movie when I was 10 or 11 - circa Nancy obsession - and my mom forbidding it because of all the violence. Needless to say I did end up watching it (the priviledges of having a TV in your room) and the funny thing is, I think it disturbs me more to watch it now than it did then.

The actor that plays Buck is in Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story and he's just as amazing... I forget I'm watching the same man who terrorized Nancy's character in the previous movie. Not that I can't separate fiction from reality, but it's just great to see how versatile that man is.

I've met Dale Midkiff on several occasions. We talked about his role in this movie. He said that was one sick man. And the scene where he stomped on Tracey (Nancy), it was over 100 degrees that day. After the scene they had to pack him in ice. He did put a lot of rage into the character of Buck.

He's a fantastic actor.

I know they are just characters, but I find it creepy that Nancy dated Dale after they made the movie. lol Obviously, like I said, they're just characters, but still!

I know they are just characters, but I find it creepy that Nancy dated Dale after they made the movie. lol Obviously, like I said, they're just characters, but still!
They did? Wow, I never knew that.

I'm fairly certain that Nancy and Dale never dated