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Director:

Eric Bross

Writer (WGA):

Charles F. Bohl (written by)

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Release Date:

25 September 2005 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama more

Plot:

A dramatization of Martha Stewart's recent trial, and her subsequent five-month prison sentence. | add synopsis

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Boring crap. more (7 total)


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Additional Details

Runtime:

120 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:PG | Australia:PG


Fun Stuff

Quotes:

Prisoners: Bad girl. Martha was a bad girl. Bad girl, bad girl. Martha was a bad girl. Bad girl, bad girl. Martha was a bad girl. more

Movie Connections:

Follows Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart (2003) (TV) more


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6 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
Boring crap., 25 September 2005
1/10
Author: velcrohead from United States

I can only assume that they let this stinker follow Cold Case so as to get viewers who were too lazy to change the channel.

It's the epitome of bad TV-movie making. And above all, it takes itself WAY too seriously.

The way the movie is edited, you'd think halfway through that either (a.)Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean Claude Van Damme are just going to burst onto the scene and have a nunchaku fight, or (b.) Sam Waterston is going to come crashing through the door with the Law & Order cast behind him. If you watched this thing, you'd think from the proceedings that Martha had gone on a homicidal rampage across three states and killed 97 people. The hilarious dramatics of the trial lawyers are so overdone and melodramatic that it's hard to believe CBS bought this material from whatever hacks wrote it and produced it. Then she's sentenced and the "bells of justice" ring and all this horrid dramatic music in the background, while the actors mug ridiculously in front of the camera. Hack is too kind a word for the writers/producers/directors/actors. You'd have a more interesting film (with better production values) if you watched a Wal-Mart security tape.

It's celebrity sensationalism, and not only that, it's LATE sensationalism. Y'know, it's just too bad that most Americans have such small lives that they have to take such joy in a celebrity's failings. We all sit back on our sofas, smug and secure in the fact that none of us have ever made mistakes. We like seeing a "perfect" celebrity fail. It makes us feel better about our woefully inadequate and unaccomplished lives. Perhaps before you judge bad old spawn of Satan Martha, you ought to look at your own lives.

If this ever comes out on DVD (God forbid) or airs again, do yourself a favor: turn the channel to the first blank channel and watch that instead of this pathetic, sensationalist, libelous, politically-motivated tripe.

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