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| Ulee's Gold |
| Day: Sunday September 15 2019 |
| Time: 8 PM Eastern |
| Channel: TCM |
| Title: Ulee's Gold (1997) Medium: Movie Actress: Jessica Biel, Christine Dunford, Vanessa Zima Description: Earlier in the movie, at 37-43mins, 30-something mother Helen (Dunford) is tied upper spreadeagle to a bed with white bedsheets, ungagged, while she is going through severe withdrawal of a drug on which the bad guys kept her strung out. Scenes of her strugging against the bonds ensue, with family friend Connie (Patricia Richardson) having to inject her with a sedative. At 1hr 24-28mins the three Jackson women, Helen, and daughters Casey (Biel) and Penny (Zima), are being held captive in the living room of their home by the earlier bad guys who are out to extort Ulee Jackson himself. After one of them asks "Got any duct tape, Mr. Jackson?", he responds with a stone-faced "Sure." The very next shot opens with a panning close-up of the three damsels each having their feet and hands wrapped multiple times with duct tape to chairs, then cuts to a close-up of Casey being gagged onscreen with duct tape wrapped at least three times very tightly over her mouth (she even rolls her eyes back during this sequence, such is the realism). The panning shot continues as we see Penny and Helen already sporting similar tape gags, but they have both only received a single wrap; considerably less brutal than Casey's. Doe-eyed expressions from both of them, but all remain silent and docile. As their captors leave the house, the lights are (infuriatingly) switched off. In the darkness we can still just about make out the taped-up damsels, with Casey attempting to free herself by energetically rocking her chair back and forth. A while later, upon being discovered by Connie, the lights are turned back on and we briefly hear some quiet mmpphhing. We are treated to a final panning shot showing Helen, Penny and Casey, all still taped to their chairs and gagged as before. Casey, however, has struggled so much that her chair is now tipped over onto the floor on its side. The scene ends with a full-body shot of Casey, who mmpphhs quietly just once. All are released offscreen. |
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