beachdeath:

beachdeath:

beachdeath:

does anyone else remember that straight to DVD madeline movie from the late 90s where madeline is kidnapped and imprisoned in a sweatshop with several other orphan girls and forced to perform child labour sewing lace by hand and the climax of the movie is that a customer asks for red lace and the proprieter of the factory is about to shave madeline’s head to use her red hair to make red lace when miss clavel suddenly comes bursting in with the cops to free her. i just had to look it up to make sure i didn’t hallucinate the whole thing but it’s very real apparently.

several people have pointed out that there was a subplot in this film involving one of the little orphan girls ruining all her lace with consumptive coughing and hacking yellow bile onto the fabric and the owner of the sweatshop being so furious that she condemned this little orphan girl to sew black lace in the dark until she went blind… and madeline was like, “that’s not right!” and the sweatshop owner threw her in solitary confinement… this was a film for seven-year-olds

i don’t know why i said “straight to DVD” when obviously this was the vhs era babey