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Night of Courage (1987)
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Now, granted, its been awhile for myself as well since I have seen this film but what the previous comment fails to do is watch the whole film before he (or she) comments on it. Yes its true, midway through the film you are led to believe that the old man threw the kid out of his house and into a group of bigoted kids who beat him to death. However, as the film goes on you find this is not true at all.
This will spoil the film for you so if you don't want to know what happens hit the back button now.
You find out that the kid threw himself out to protect the old man and his ailing wife who was upstairs(Hence the title of the film, Night of courage). I don't remember exactly why the old man never revealed why he didn't tell anyone but I think it was because the gang who killed the kid harassed him so in turn was made to look like a cold man who sent the boy to his death.
It wasn't a bad film. It was sad and it made me angry during several scenes but for the most part it wasn't bad from what I can remember. To the previous commenter I would suggest trying to watch it all the way through. If need be, drink some coffee or a red bull.
Disturbed (1990)
other review is misleading
This is really about a sadistic doctor in a mental hospital who rapes his patients. One of these patients commits suicide on visiting day in front of her very young daughter, who later, as an adult, admits herself into the same hospital under the pretense that she has sexual-oriented problems. Really she is just there for revenge. With the help of an orderly who is also disgusted by the doctor's behavior, she sets it up to look like the doctor accidentally murdered her while trying to rape her. Then her "body" mysteriously disappears and reappears despite the doctor's best efforts to conceal his crime. She "haunts" him until he looses his mind and ends up a mental patient himself.
While this is certainly not a masterful film by any means, it's not really that bad, and if you are a big Malcolm McDowell fan you may even love it-- despite the general mediocrity of the movie, he shines. Whoever wrote the other review must have the attention-span of a doorknob. For a B-movie, it's really not that bad at all, and even has some charming and amusing moments (candy-gram, and I'll say no more).