Judith Light
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Apr 29, 1997 · Based on a real-life incident. In 1958, Elizabeth Ann Duncan hired farmhands Augustine Baldonado and Luis Moya to murder her pregnant daughter-in-law out of jealousy of her son, Frank, an attorney. As in the film, Frank met his wife, a nurse, while visiting his mother in a hospital after her suicide attempt, a ploy to keep him from leaving home.
- (446)
- Drama, Thriller
- Bill Corcoran
- 1997-04-29
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Too Close to Home. Based on a real-life incident. In 1958, Elizabeth Ann Duncan hired farmhands Augustine Baldonado and Luis Moya to murder her pregnant daughter-in-law out of jealousy of her son, Frank, an attorney.
The movie was certainly true to the real life story on which it was based. It was hard for me to find newspaper articles about the actual facts, but when I located them, I could see that truth, in this case, was stranger than fiction.
Apr 29, 1997 · The telefilm, based on a true story, as end credits reveal, has an intriguing sense of inevitable doom. Vidpic relates how the madly jealous Diana tries discrediting Abby while Nick counters...
Judith Light manages to creep the crap out of you (with a little help from blue contact lenses), but still make you feel sorry for her when she's put to death. Warning: this is a true story!
- (7)
- Bill Corcoran
- TV-PG
- Judith Light
Based on a true story, Light plays disturbingly overprotective mother Diana Donahue, who is incapable of letting grown son Nick (Rick Schroder) leave the nest.
Apr 29, 1997 · Based on a true story. A mother is so consumed with a possessive love for her son that she may have committed murder in order to keep him by her side. When the son's new wife is found murdered, the mother is arrested for the crime.
