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Shelley Long plays 92 personalities. Yes, you read that right. No, it's not a comedy.
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Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (1990)

psychological unraveling90s TV movie intensitytrauma excavation

Latest Episode

120 min

Season 1 • Episode 2

Latest

Episode 2

May 21, 1990

Overview

A woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder is found during therapy to have suffered child abuse in this fact-based story.

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Standout Aspects

Acting

Shelley Long abandons every sitcom instinct. Transformation is genuinely unsettling.

Writing

Adapts Chase's autobiography with surprising structural ambition for 1990 TV.

Best for:Solo: You need emotional space for this one. No witnesses to your wreckage.·Rewatch: Catch which personalities you missed. Long's subtle physical shifts are masterful.
Heads up:Disturbing: Child abuse depicted through fragmented flashbacks. Dissociative episodes are viscerally portrayed.·Emotional: No tidy redemption. Chase's real life remained difficult after publication.
First AiredMay 20, 1990
StatusEnded

Vibe

Paceslow
Intensityhigh
Tonedark
Feelheavy
Seasons1·Episodes2
ABC

Top Cast

Shelley Long

Shelley Long

Truddi Chase

Tom Conti

Tom Conti

Dr. Phillips

John Rubinstein

John Rubinstein

Norman DeRoin

Alan Fudge

Alan Fudge

Albert Johnson

Jamie Rose

Jamie Rose

Maureen, Truddi's Mother

Christine Healy

Christine Healy

Sharon Barnes

Ernie Lively

Ernie Lively

Paul, Truddi's Stepfather

Frank Converse

Frank Converse

Peter Morgan

Robert Costanzo

Robert Costanzo

Eddie

Guich Koock

Guich Koock

Charles

Val Bettin

Val Bettin

Playwright

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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

Chase's autobiography 'When Rabbit Howls' was written collaboratively with her alters, each using different handwriting and vocabulary. Long studied the original manuscript pages to capture physical distinctions.

Cultural

Released during peak 'recovered memory' controversy of the early 90s. The film's uncritical stance toward therapeutic revelation now reads as historically situated rather than medically authoritative.

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