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.

Phenomenal star making performance by Field. Highly recommended.

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

powerful acting

Sally Field, amazing performance!

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.

Chilling movie, great acting by Woodward & Field.

Best when watched with the DSM in hand.

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

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.