Saturday, 17 March 2018
949 Small Sacrifices
First viewed : 31 July 1990
This was a two part US mini-series based on a true crime book by Ann Rule about convicted murderer Diane Downs who killed one of her children and seriously wounded the other two in order to be with her selfish lover.. The prosecutor adopted the two surviving children after her conviction. Apart from Downs herself, all the character's names were changed to afford some measure of privacy.
Downs was played by Farrah Fawcett, a casting choice by which one imagines the fairly dowdy Downs would have been flattered. Her lover was played by real-life husband Ryan Neal. The ever-busy John Shea played the prosecutor.
The scene I remember best is the courtroom scene where it's alleged that Downs used Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf to psyche herself up for the shootings and she starts grooving along to it in the dock.
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