I remember seeing this on TV waaaayy back, and the flashback scenes in Nazi prison camp just scared me to peices. It still kinda gives me the creeps, although that may just be childhood trauma knocking at my door.
shareIn 1983, I was 11 and I loved this movie! I always loved the theme song "Reverie" and my piano teacher found the music for me. I just recently saw it again, and of course now it's so cheesey. But, hey, I was 11!!!
shareI agree I loved the song, but you have to admit, it kind of added to the creepiness....
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your piano teacher found the music?! who's the publisher? where did she get it? tell me anything?!
Didn't scare me. I always wanted to be a genetic engineer after I saw this. I wish I could find it again.
shareI like this movie. I know it's cheesy and stuff, but the story is very good and errie.
shareGee, I was 11 when I first saw this movie. I first saw the movie on HBO and watched it several more times then. It was a trip. This movie is one of the first creepy movie recollections I have of my childhood. Total trip!
shareNot only did I see this movie as a child, about 10 times, but suddenly today as I was getting an MRI for my shoulder I had a flashback to the scene where Anna is getting an MRI or CAT scan when they are trying to figure out what she is...why I should remember it almost 25 years later, I have no idea!
shareYes, it did freak me out to watch it when I was little--probably about 10 or 11 at the time. I remember watching it several times on HBO and it always left me with a weird, uneasy feeling. I can't remember that much about it, but would like to see it again. It is interesting to look back on the perspective of things that you experienced as a child. For what ever reason it left an impact on me because every once in a blue moon I'll think about this movie. Thank goodness for imdb.com.
shareYes! There are a handful of movies I've had to track down in adulthood because of the impact they had on me years ago - all I have had fond memories of, but some just pure sweet memories (Dot and the Kangaroo or Somewhere Tomorrow), but some - like this - that occupied a kind of creepy place in my head (I'm waiting for the DVD of "Don't go to Sleep" - that one REALLY freaked me out and that was without the wonders of HBO repeating it regularly!).
What's interesting is that upon watching all of these films, I find that the parts I remember aren't often the "big moment" parts of the movies, but single scenes that were imprinted into my memory - and often not even correctly! But they sure did get lodged there.
I found a VHS copy of Anna to the Infinite Power a few years ago and rewatched, and you know, it's interesting that no one has remade this one now that we have the technology to do the things only dreamed of when the book was written. I think what amazed me the most was how close to correct they got much of the science!
I agree, totally. It was way ahead of this time. Great movie.
shareNot sure if this is the right place to pose this question; but this movie got played alot on the Disney channel in the early 80's. About the same time there was a 'young teen romance' set in a Northern state...the boy was picked on, but managed to woo a girl...I remember it being extremely sweet (hey, I was like 12; hormones and all) and a little sexual....
Would recognize it if I ever saw it again, but otherwise, can't figure out what movie it was...
I also watched the Edison Twins and Bob Hope movies re-mastered in color on the Disney channel during this time frame....
You are right about only remembering certain parts that aren't even the main thing. I couldn't even remember the name of the movie. I just looked through everything with "Anna" in the plot to find this movie that I watched when I was 9! And it definitely was creepy. I'd like to see it again as an adult.
shareIt's interesting that this seemingly nothing movie would have a similarly profound impact on me as it did with several of you who have posted in this thread. I also saw it first as a kid and I know now, as an adult it related to something that was a current issue of my early life as some of you have stated also.
Also interesting is it was an entirely different element that touched me than most of you but seemingly I connected deeply as most of you. It didn't creep me out at all, it was a great adventure to me, but the impactful element to me personally was something other than that and like another poster said, it was a little secondary thing that touched me so deeply I never forgot it after only watching it once so many years ago.
For me, it was something about the teachers house. It was so clean and happy and orderly and feminine and the sun shined though the curtains. The image of the house popped into my head, out of nowhere, thoughout my life.
How I found the movie is somewhat interesting too. I only knew the title had "Anna" in it and I couldn't find it because I couldn't search for it by title. Then I happened across a newsgroup that asked a question about the movie and someone answered with the title. Finally' if you understand, I could get that movie from my childhood memories and see it again. Ebay had one for 10 bucks. 10 bucks for something that meant so much to me.
But anyway, isn't it curious that this movie had a psychlogical impact on all of us when it was just a low budget tv movie produced in Canada? On top of that, we all connected to it from different aspects of it that related to ourselves personally. It's weird.
And what was my impression of the movie as an adult? Still loved the house but it was a little different than I had imprinted in my memory, and funny, as a boy, I hadn't been impressed by the drop dead good looks of Anna's mom lol. I liked the dresses the women wore too.
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I loved this movie when I was little...I was rivited by the storyline. The song at the end always haunted me & I could never find this movie. Finally! I found it and was able to buy it on VHS.
shareI was 9 in 1983 and can vouch for the queasy, uncomfortable impression it left on me. This was in HEAVY rotation back on HBO back in the day (we had the Pre-View Channel) and I think every kid who was a couch potato had to have seen it about 10 times each.
Anyway, the whole creepy Nazi angle was disturbing, but I remember the terrorizing of the hospital children as being the most unsettling. Didn't it just have this zinger ending where you realized that the last Anna and her brother were total goners?
Well, Anna and Rowan weren't total goners; It turned out that the doctor's co-hort, aka the piano teacher, turned the tables on him after she revealed to him that she was the original Anna clone they thought they had killed the first time around and she blackmailed him into handing over the seven Annas and the project to her. So you could say that the piano teacher prevented Anna and Rowan's demise.
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I was like 8 years old (about 17 yrs ago) when I first saw this film, it was on late at night on YTV (Canadian channel). However, this film didn't scare me, but it left me with a strange feeling in my stomach...
Anyway, I had completely forgotten about this film until now--not sure why I thought about it, but I just remembered the name 'Anna Zimmerman', and me being my curious self, I googled it. Now, I am finally able to ID this film!! :-)
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