Circle of Violence: A Family Drama (1986)

Georgia Benfield is at a difficult place in her life: her husband Pete has left her for a younger woman her teenage son Chris is unmanageable, and she's struggling financially when her widowed mother Charlotte moves in. Amid juggling a new full-time job, raising two children, and her failing marriage, the constant bickering between mother and daughter continues as it has ever since Georgia was a child. Finally at her wits' end, Georgia loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia herself had been abused as a child. As family and friends slowly start to learn of the abuse and long-buried family secrets come to light, both mother and daughter must learn to accept the past to change what is happening at present, to create a better future.