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When reporter Helen McNulty (Laura Dern) visits a South American country to write about a political revolutionary, she is kidnapped and forced to endure months of physical abuse.
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Oct 16, 1995 · Down Came a Blackbird. Raul Julia's sure-footed interp of a supposed torture victim and Vanessa Redgrave's sweeping study of a once-tortured psychiatrist now running a refuge for those...
Down Came a Blackbird is a 1995 American made for TV drama film directed by Jonathan Sanger and starring Raul Julia, Laura Dern, and Vanessa Redgrave. It was the final film appearance of Julia, filmed in October 1994.
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Made for television in 1995 and featuring Raul Julia's final screen appearance as well as fine performances from Laura Dern and Vanessa Redgrave, Down Came a Blackbird is one of those unexpected finds that serendipitously pop up on late night movie channel programming.
Oct 22, 1995 · Down Came a Blackbird: Directed by Jonathan Sanger. With Raul Julia, Laura Dern, Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Gorman. Helen McNulty is a journalist struggling to regain control of her life a year after she was abducted and tortured in Central America.
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Oct 22, 1995 · Laura Dern has a hard time watching her latest movie, “Down Came a Blackbird,” airing Sunday on Showtime. One of her co-stars in the riveting drama about victims of political torture is...
Popular reviews. A journalist (Laura Dern) still struggling with the murder of her partner (Jay O. Sanders) while on assignment in Central America, becomes a patient at a clinic for recovering torture victims, to write a piece on its founder (Vanessa Redgrave).