The Burning Bed: One of the most horrifying movies I've ever seen.

[trumad]

No matter how many times he beat her, she kept forgiving him and coming back---until one day, she lit that asshole on fire.

[Happyhippychick]

1. It was a great movie and demonstrated that Farrah was much more than a beauty queen

She did that role some serious justice.

[hobbit709]

2. Sometimes you have to pull a Popeye.

[MADem]

3. That film was "Must See TV" for its era.

It reinvigorated the career of Farrah Fawcett, who had been viewed as a difficult lightweight for "demanding too much money" for her Charlie's Angels role. It was a serious, heavy part and it highlighted the issue of domestic violence in a way that hadn't been seen before. It also introduced to the wider world a new defense strategy to the court system. It was based on a true story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087010/

Based on the true story of Francine Hughes, who was accused of murdering her husband on March 9, 1977 in Dansville, Michigan. She was found not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, and her case created a legal precedent for how domestic violence cases were to be handled in the future.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

4. That case was one of the first to start changing the concept of self-defense.

The defense before then was almost universally "duty to withdraw." If there was a way you could get away, you had to at least try before you could claim self-defense as a defense to a criminal charge. This case and others like it led to a new term: "battered woman syndrome."

[bettyellen]

5. and wasn't she with the abusing fuckwad, Ryan O Neal? Maybe even when she filmed it.

Brave choice for her to take that role.

[MrScorpio]

6. I was in the service then.

We all sat in the dorm dayroom and watched it. I can never forget it.