Bloodlines: Murder in the Family (1993) (TV)

Director:

Paul Wendkos

Writers (WGA):

Bill Driskill (written by) and
Sara Davidson (written by)

Release Date:

1 marzo 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Based On True Story

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A very compelling true-life murder case

Cast

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
David Spielberg
Sam Wanamaker	...	Gerald Woodman

También conocida como:

Lazos de sangre: Asesinato en la familia (Spain) [es]

Duración:

192 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Stereo

Clasificación:

USA:Not Rated | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

City Hall - 200 N. Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Lorimar Television

Trivialidades:

Last film of Sam Wanamaker.

A very compelling true-life murder case

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.