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Didn't see that ending coming!

posted 18 years ago by katewa44
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Wow, I just finished watching Dawn Anna and I am blown away! I did not see that tragedy coming.

For a Lifetime Movie this was really excellent!

[–] kirkyplusbeth 18 years ago

This iwll be a stupid question and all, but was the tragedy her daughter dying? I havent seen the movie so thats why I'm asking

[–] dancerwh86 18 years ago

I'm assuming you want to be spoiled...but warning you anyway

**SPOILERS***

Yes Dawn Anna goes through all this stuff throughout the film illness etc and gets through it with her family only to have her daughter killed at columbine

[–] leighree 18 years ago

When I sat down to watch this movie I had no idea that it would end as it did. I realised as soon as it showed Columbine High School, and then I clicked "isnt her name Lauren ...". So sad! I still remember watching the news and seeing the events at Columbine happening live on tv - and I'm in New Zealand! It was so shocking, so sad. My heart goes out to all those who suffered.

[–] BigFatPileOfCheeseCake 18 years ago

I just caught this movie on TV at midnight last night. I'm not one for lifetime movies or made-for-TV ones, but as it kept going I just found it really interesting, so I kept watching until the end. I didn't see that ending coming either.

What if the hokey pokey is what it's all about?

[–] KAnnD86 18 years ago

I saw a bumper sticker with your sig on it once. I thought it was hilarious, but no one else seemed to get it lol.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday!

[–] nyc93 18 years ago

i cried and cried for hours after

[–] Sodelited 18 years ago

I - also - cried for hours. I've never been affected like that before by a film. The recovery from the brain tumor was affecting - but as the tragic day at Columbine unfolded - I felt my heart was being torn out.

I DID know what was coming - when I rented the movie - and as started watching. I knew one of her children was killed in the Columbine incident. At the time it affected me - and so I wanted to see this film. I had no idea it would devastate me as it did. Watching the film - made me care even more deeply for the members of this specific family - more intimately then I did through the media at the time it happened.

I liked how it was done. My very dynamic 15 year old daughter was the innocent victim of a drunk driver. I can relate to what Dawn Anna experienced - what she did afterwards.

[–] twocortwort7 18 years ago

Before I even watched the movie, I had heard that it was based upon one of the girl's killed in the shooting. The movie and the story really touched me. I still remember 4-20-99 and still remember the fear I lived in the days after it occured. I can't imagine going through what Dawn Anna did and then have my world come crashing down like it did on that day.

~*~Cortney~*~

[–] DirrtyX_84 18 years ago

This is one film that angers me... it is such a fantastic film, well acted, so real, on the right level... that's why it's not a 'well known' film, cos well known films and blockbusters must be crap these days.. not well written and well acted. Which is a shame.

[–] schuhj 12 years ago

Agreed. Except, with all this optimism, it fails quite to come to grips with the radical evil involved. We shall overcome? Not always.

[–] blossom114 18 years ago

I just saw it for the first time on Lifetime last night, and I didn't see the Columbine thing coming either. I was watching it because I LOVE Debra Winger, and that really was the only reason I was watching it... Lol...but as soon as I saw the Columbine High School sign out front I was like "Omg."
A great movie, and definitely a tearjerker.