Hello everyone, I am new here, just joined the site. The Prince of Tides has always been one of my favorite movies, I love Barbara Streisand, and Nick Notle's performance were spot on, it is one of those rare movies I can watch, and watch it again in one sitting. I was sexually abused as a child by an older boy, it went on for about 5 years. I was terrified to tell anyone. My Mother was so much like Lila Wingo in the Prince of Tides, it's spooky, with one exception, she physically abused all 6 of her children, we were never spanked, just beaten. I had 5 sisters, who left home as quickly as possibe, all marrying much too young. For some unknnown reason, my baby sister was singled out and despised by our Mother. I can't go into the gory details, it hurts too bad. Let me just say, she was treated very much like Sybil, only worse. The Prince of Tides has helped me this year to deal with the fact that I really couldn't do anything to save my sister, as I was just a child myself. I'm still having a great deal of problems with it, and I cry everytime Tom tells his story to Dr. Lowenstein. I'm very sorry for theh length of this post, and I felt today, if I could just tell someone. I'm so glad I found this place, I really am an avid fan of Ms. Streisand, she is the greatest!

I went and saw this movie at the theater when it first opened and took my mom and my then pregnant sister and we were all crying (the couch seen with Nick Nolte and Barbra is so moving) (and those flashback scenes).......

My sister likes some of Barbra's music and likes her movies but not the way that i do... I was surprised because after she saw the movie she decided to name her daughter, Savannah, which is Tom's Wingo's sister in the movie that tried to commit suicide but was saved at the end....

Nickluvsbarbra ....................................