broken silence or race against fear1998 ) represent star ariana richards and william bumiller and susan blakely and tracy ellis ross and teryl rothery and scott vickaryous and marissa rudiak and ken camroux and david neale and bruce dawson . director joseph scanlan and screenplay sara charmo and jean gennis and phyllis murphy . this be another lifetime channel film and make exclusively for television and release in 1998 and direct by long time tv series director joseph l. scanlan . inspire by true event and it a lot like the majority of lifetime movie and a cautionary tale for woman and raise awareness of the predator lurk within the family ( a mother and father and wife and husband ) and mentor ( teacher and in this case track coach ) . the young and little known actress ariana richards ( she play the small girl in jurassic park ) deliver a highly convincing performance a high school track athlete mickey carlyle and who be rap by her coach and kurt ansom ( william bumiller ) and must suffer in silence a no one believe her story and except for and of course and her own mother ( susan blakely ) . together and mother and daughter fight to put kurt ansom behind bar . the film drag on quite a bit and be ultimately predictable and at time far too melodramatic for the sake of drama itself and but be genuinely powerful in the end . ariana richards performance be of the daytime soap kind and but she be the strong in the entire cast . her facial expression and body language and overall acting be realistic in term of how she and a an aspire athlete and idolize her coach and be in turn violate by him and must now live with the shame and trauma and further and fight him in court . william bumiller play the part with a nasty sort of duplicity and though he be far from subtle . he have abuse other star athlete before and who have remain silent and make it to the top and and appear outwardly innocent . william bumiller and a less known actor like the others and have have never do a role like this but but he do a believable and strong performance overall . it especially disturb to see him in this role because he be a sexy lead actor in everything else he do include some less know film and on the soap opera guide light . the only real problem i have with this film be the manner in which the film be structure . a the film open and we watch coach ansom about to rape mickey and let u know right away that this guy be no good . but this make for weak character development and story . if the first scene have instead be the sequence with the opening credit in which we see mickey run or jogging in the city across a lake and we would have good character development because we do not know that coach ansom and while seemingly interested in the success of his star athlete and be really a nasty piece of work and we would have see mickey idolize a person whom she think she know and then receive a rude awaken when she realize she be wrong about him . director joseph scanlan be no stranger to drama for tv ( knott landing and star trek and quantum leap and the outer limit and lois and clark and earth final conflict and movie like la femme nikitta . in 1996 and scanlan have direct another lifetime movie and similar to this and stand against fear ( 1996 ) . he manage to convey the gravity of the event . we be genuinely disturb by the coach lurk around the shower where he rap his own student . these scene be graphic and ought to be view by mature audience and but it message be clear represent sexual predator and rapist be not always a stranger and can assume different form and and their preying ground can even include a high school . this film support the cause of fight to prevent violence against woman and urges woman who have be silent victim to testify and fight so that rapist will cause no further harm to others . despite other negative review and this film do a great job in express it message and ought to be give to mother and daughter and high school student ( include both male and female ) . as bad a rape be and stay silent when it happen be even bad .