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Director:
Paul Wendkos
Writers (WGA):
Bill Driskill (written by) and
Sara Davidson (written by)
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Release Date:
1 March 1993 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
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User Comments:
A very compelling true-life murder case more (3 total)

Cast

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Mimi Rogers ... Melody Woodman

Elliott Gould ... Stewart Woodman

Clancy Brown ... Ben Guardino

Kim Hunter ... Vera Woodman

Joe Spano ... Hal Leventhal
Chris Demetral ... Ian Woodman

Nicholle Tom ... Jacy Woodman

Nicholas Rutherford
Bonnie Bartlett ... Ruth
Hunt Block
Robin Strasser
Andy Romano
John Pleshette ... Neil Woodman

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Sam Wanamaker ... Gerald Woodman
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Runtime:
192 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
USA:Not Rated | Australia:M
Filming Locations:
City Hall - 200 N. Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
Lorimar Television more

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Last film of Sam Wanamaker. more

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A very compelling true-life murder case, 8 June 2000
Author: waldorfsalad from California

This is the true story of the Woodman murders, the affluent parents of Stewart and Neil Woodman who have been sentenced to life imprisonment for hiring hit-men to commit their murders so as to collect the insurance money. The first half of this made-for-TV movie is quite riveting whereas the second half is more the story of the wife's valiant struggle to come to terms with the demise of her comfortable bourgeois existence. Not to mention the difficulty in raising three children whose own worlds have shattered after the arrest of their father. We can sympathize with Melody Woodman's plight, but I would have liked to see Mimi Rogers less afraid to look awful, it would have made her role more believable. Thanks to the fine young actors we root for the kids despite their spoiled rottenness. As Stewart Woodman, Elliott Gould plays him so well, we feel truly pained to see him as the broken man that his incarceration has left him. All the actors are good, and this is one of the better TV movies made from the waist-deep true life murder cases.

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