Million Dollar Babies
The shocking true story of the Dionne Quintuplets.
The true story that shocked 1930's Canada. When a poor rural Ontario family gives birth to quintuplet, the town doctor doesn't waste a second and takes over the family. He helps to take care of the babies but soon turns the babies into a freak show. Not before long the government gets involved and the babies are a multi-million dollar industry. But how can the uneducated couple regain their babies and their lives?
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A dark chapter in Canadian history. - cathyottawa
Think you know the whole story of the Dionne Quintuplets? You may be surprised by this movie.
I knew they were famous, and I knew about the awful "Quintland", but I never realized just how many people came from far and wide to see them, and just how truly famous they were in that day.
I also didn't know the whole story of how they were separated from their birth parents, who lived just across the street from Quintland, unable to visit their own children.
This movie does distort the truth here and there. The Dionnes have gone on record as saying that, when they were finally returned to their birth parents, they endured physical, verbal and emotional abuse, and some sexual abuse from the father.
The movie portrays the birth parents as saintly people, with no faults, and total victims.
The Dionnes have also made it clear they hold no ill will towards Dr. Dafoe, whom they consider to be their real father. The movie makes him out to be quite a villian. Maybe he was an opportunist in the beginning, but I think he came to truely care for the girls. They certainly felt that he did.
Still, it is surreal to think this actually happenned. Crazy times.
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A dark chapter in Canadian history. - cathyottawa
Think you know the whole story of the Dionne Quintuplets? You may be surprised by this movie.
I knew they were famous, and I knew about the awful "Quintland", but I never realized just how many people came from far and wide to see them, and just how ...