Was anyone else completely WRECKED after watching this movie?

I've started crying just by looking up this movie... I look back on it with nostalgia from when I was younger and it makes me sad to think about the awful situations of these two families.

I can't say exactly thought how I felt when I last watched this movie, as it was many years ago, but it's always a movie that I will remember.

yeah, it has a profound effect on me too, i was also quite young when i saw it (under ten most probably) my mom always tried making us watch these 'adult movies' such as 'nell' or 'rudy". they were always so depressing. i guess after watching this film i realised the world is not fair

when the lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window - Julie Andrews, the sound of music

No matter how many times I watch this movie, my eyes still fill up when Erika Flores turns on her charm. She was so adorable and the scene where she cries before her operation and questions whether God loves her or not...
*sniff*

-- Leet.

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Yes, I was also very young when I saw that and that death scene was traumatizing. I thought I was the only one who remembered it.

I watched this movie for the first time when i was about 11 years old (1991) which was when the film first came out. As i was at such a young age although i understood the plot of the movie i didn't understand fully what really happened and never really thought it was based on actual events until i watched it again 3 years later. Recently it has been shown on tv again and i had to watch this film and oh my god did it pull some heart strings. I totally felt for both families and totally felt for poor kimberly.

After watching this movie again after so long it made me wonder what happened next, because the end of the movie looked like it ended happily. i felt i had to google stuff about the case online and only came up with a few articles on the NY times and CNN.com. Wish i could find more stories as this case got me really interested. I really wish i could read the book about the story too, sadly can't find it anywhere.

My opinion on the whole thing - Neither parents were at fault, i felt sorry for both the Twiggs and Bob and Kim Mays. But having said that, the twiggs shouldn't have pushed everything so much. From what i read the twiggs tried for custody of Kimberly when she was what, 15? I don't think that should've happened. From what i read on the internet and from watching the movie, its like this poor girl was pulled from pillar to post. I'm not surprised she grew up the way she did - it hasn't got a thing to do with her being a spoilt brat or anything. its to do with what happened to her. Psychologically. The Twiggs and the Mays should have asked Kimberley what SHE wanted and left it at that. After all the most important thing then should have been the child, not what the parents wanted.

That's my opinion and how i feel about it. I don't know the Twiggs, i don't know the mays i can't really judge them. But Kimberly's feelings should've been put first, not their own. I mean sure, the twiggs had every right to know Kimberly. But to force visitation, and then a few years after sue for custody?

I think that both the Twiggs and Bob Mays would have had a much better relationship with Kimberley if they actually sat down in a room with her and asked her what she wanted.

I was about 14 when I saw it, and it really got to me. I felt sorry for both families, as it must be hard to discover that the child you loved and raised, wasn't actually yours biologically thru no fault of your own.

I agree with the above poster, I thought they should have sat down and found out what she wanted. Their curiosity about her was completely normal, but how could they expect her to leave the only parents she ever knew?

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