"All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)" and "The Land Before Time (1988)" are two cartoons that marked many childhoods, but they literally destroyed one. Judith Barsi (1978–1988) was an unusually intelligent girl, already at the age of five she acted in a couple of television projects, including the film "The Revenge 4 (1987), and by the age of nine she was engaged in 70 commercials. Then she lent her voice to the dinosaur Dhaka in "The Land Before Time (1988)" and the voice to the girl Anne Marie in the cartoon "All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)". Her salary reached $ 100,000 a year at the age of nine, and with this money, Barcy and her family were able to move into a three-room house. However, her father became jealous that his underage daughter earns more than he did, and he was also an alcoholic. In addition to the problems that were happening in her family, the girl was harassed by the management who gave her hormone injections for growth because she was too short for her age.
At the age of 10, Judith was only 112 cm tall and constantly received offers for the roles of girls who were younger than her. She had a nervous breakdown while singing at the audition for "All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)", and then she was taken to a child psychologist. The psychologist diagnosed Barca's behavior as a consequence of severe physical and emotional abuse, and reported those conclusions to the Child Protection Service. However, her mother said that she had already filed for divorce and that everything would be fine.
On the evening of July 25, 1988, the father killed the girl and her mother with gunshots. He spent two days locked in the house before finally pouring gasoline on their bodies and setting them on fire. He eventually committed suicide. Judith Barsi (1978–1988) was only ten years old. A strange coincidence is that the first character she played in the movie "Fatal Vision" was also killed by her father together with her mother. The director Don Bluth with whom she worked "All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)" stated that she was the most intelligent person he worked with.
The song "Love Survives" from the movie "All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)" is dedicated to her.
A sad story about a prematurely deprived childhood of a beautiful girl, how a father can kill his child does not work for me, so a father should take care of his children.