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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Judith Light | ... | Marie Hilley / Robbi / Teri | |
David Ogden Stiers | ... | John Homan | |
Kellie Overbey | ... | Carol Hilley | |
David Dukes | ... | Joe Hubbard | |
Whip Hubley | ... | Lieutenant Gary Carroll | |
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Jessie Jones | ... | Maggie |
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Mary Nell Santacroce | ... | Grandma |
Joe Inscoe | ... | Frank Hilley | |
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Robin Florence | ... | Belinda |
Lane Bradbury | ... | Aunt Frieda | |
Maury Covington | ... | Bellamy | |
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Dan Biggers | ... | Corrigan |
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Terrence Gibney | ... | Walt |
Brett Rice | ... | Fowler (as James Brett Rice) | |
Libby Whittemore | ... | Rhonda |
Marie Hilley started out as the perfect wife and mother. Then two decades into her marriage, her husband Frank, is taken severely ill and dies soon after. Within months of his death, their daughter Carol is admitted to hospital with similar symptoms and intensive testings later reveal arsenic poisoning. In the meantime, Marie is arrested for passing bad checks and when Frank's exhumed remains reveal massive amounts of arsenic, she is promptly charged with his murder but manages to escape and remain on the run for three years. She is convicted of Frank's murder in absentia and even remarries but when she tries to fake her own death with her new identity, things quickly fall apart for her and she is arrested again. She escapes again but this time, her luck runs out and she is captured within a week and eventually dies in prison. Written by mahajanssen
But it instead is a true story of a Southern woman who is the definition of chutzpah. She commits crime after crime, spends well beyond her means, and then manages to escape custody and allude the police for years all the while playing her old money yet working class second husband like a fiddle.
Judith Light, of "Who's the Boss" fame, plays the role of Audrey Marie Hilley and does a very good job. Fortunately, the script never asks her to explain herself, and the film is better with her as a complete moral mystery. David Ogden Stiers is very poignant as the second husband, who, for some reason, doesn't suspect a thing until the facts are flung in his face.
And who gives a three day parole to a convicted murderer? I mean, yikes! I guess the one big unanswered question is what Audrey was doing in the woods for those four days at the end. Was she waiting on somebody or did she just finally feel the walls caving in? I'd recommend it if you ever get the chance to see it.