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A Life Interrupted is a 2007 Lifetime Television film directed by Stefan Pleszczynski and starring Lea Thompson. It was nominated in 2008 for the Best TV Movie Gemini Award. It depicts events in the life of sexual assault victim Debbie Smith, which led to the passage of the Debbie Smith Act. in 2004.
Apr 23, 2007 · A Life Interrupted: Directed by Stefan Pleszczynski. With Lea Thompson, Anthony Lemke, Cindy Busby, Éléonore Lamothe. After Debbie Smith was raped, she didn't take the law into her own hands.
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In 1989, Debbie Smith was living a quiet life as a housewife with her police officer husband, Rob and their two kids, but one day it's all shattered. While her husband slept upstairs, Debbie was dragged from her kitchen in broad daylight and brutally raped in the woods.
A Life Interrupted. Suburban housewife Debbie Smith (Lea Thompson) campaigns for stronger anti-rape legislation after surviving a brutal attack.
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This is a superb human drama that expertly combines two story threads: the trauma that Debbie Smith faced from being raped and her involvement in the struggle to increases the resources available to local police departments to run DNA tests to identify rapists even when no suspect has actually been identified or taken into custody.
2 hr 0 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Years after a brutal assault, Debbie finally sees the assailant arrested due to a chance DNA test. Infuriated about women having to wait that long, or...
