Sally Field does an amazing job, and the whole thing is endearingly 70's. A short three hours. I actually think they could have successfully kept it up longer if they wanted to, perhaps into a full blown miniseries.

I know this isn't a great movie, but I like me some psychiatric drama. The thing that irks me most is that Sybil's mother is presented as a severe, frumpy old woman, but in the book she's described as quite beautiful and flirtatious. It's a cheap ploy to make her more unlikeable, something that's hardly necessary. Also, there are some terrible lines.

Phenomenal star making performance by Field. Highly recommended.

Sally Field, amazing performance!

Chilling movie, great acting by Woodward & Field.

Interesting story, but it's blah in the way that '70s TV productions so often were. Also, I really really really don't recommend, if you have one or more abusive parents, being passive about it, letting Mom destroy you, then spending ten years in the booby hatch getting your head back together

Great film.

Best when watched with the DSM in hand.

powerful acting

The film was too painful for me to watch at one go. The story is heart rending and the filmmaking is not over the top but does justice. The camera angles could have been better. However, the setting and the portrayals have been true to the times.

This is a hell of a trip to put on a classroom full of high-schoolers, but man was I ever blown away.

Field's amazing performance in this first-rate production won her an Emmy.