Sybil | |
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Based on | Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber |
Written by | John Pielmeier |
Directed by | Joseph Sargent |
Starring | Tammy Blanchard Jessica Lange JoBeth Williams |
Music by | Charles Bernstein |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Norman Stephens Mark Wolper |
Producer | Michael Mahoney |
Cinematography | Donald M. Morgan |
Editor | Mike Brown |
Running time | 89 minutes |
Production companies | Warner Bros. Television Wolper Organization |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | June 7, 2008 |
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Sybil is a 2007 American made-for-television drama film directed by Joseph Sargent, and written by John Pielmeier, based on the 1973 book Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, which fictionalized the story of Shirley Ardell Mason, who was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder (more commonly known then as "split personality", now called dissociative identity disorder). This is the second adaptation of the book, following the Emmy Award-winning 1976 mini-series Sybil that was broadcast by NBC. The university scenes were filmed at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.
In January 2006, The Hollywood Reporter announced CBS had greenlit the project,[1] but it was shelved after completion. The film was released in Italy, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Norway, and Hungary before finally being broadcast in the US by CBS on June 7, 2008.