Micitype Pretty Good

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** One of the best Lifetime Movie Network films ever ever made in that it's so off-the-wall and unbelievable yet at the same time a true story which makes you take it's mind boggling plot seriously. The film proves the famous saying that "Truth is stranger the fiction" and there's nothing more stranger and more eye-popping and hard to take then the storyline, based on a true story, of the film "Deadly Relations"Decorated US Marine Corps. combat veteran Len Fagot, Robert Urich, has the kind of life and family that most of us dream about. A very successful disability claims lawyer Len also has a loving and dedicated wife Shirley, Shelly Fabares, and four beautiful daughters Carol, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joanne, Georgia Emelin, Nancy, Jillian Boyd,and Shirley Jr,Joy Farmer. Len runs his household like a Marine boot camp with his word being the last word in anything that goes on there. It's when his oldest daughter Joanne breaks ranks and announces her engagement to George Westerfield, Matthew Perry, that the feeling betrayed and feeling hurt Len goes into action. Putting on an act that he's in favor of Joanne's decision he behind everyone backs plans to insure her husband to be and then have him knocked for the insurance money! Things get a bit strange when the straight laced and dedicated family man Len Fagot is caught literately with his pants down making out in a car with his new lady gardener Marty, Roxana Zal, by his youngest daughter Shirley Jr no less!Even though Shirley Jr. is shocked to see what her dad is doing behind her mom's as well as her and her sisters backs she's told by a very embarrassed Len that it, his fooling around with Marty, all has to do with his heart condition that Marty in offering her professional services, besides gardening, to him has greatly elevated!We soon begin to see that Len is slowly going both out of his mind and depleting his bank account as he insures everyone in his family,including himself,in order to make a killing on them if they ever happen to meet an unfortunate end. This goes so far that Len ends up shooting off, in a so-called hunting accident, his left hand in order for him to collect the insurance money! This insane act on Len's part backfires with the insurance company, smelling a rat, refusing to pay off!***SPOILERS*** Len overplays his hand, his good hand, by trying to set up his daughter Carol's husband Mike Holland, Tony Higgins, in his latest insurance fraud scam but that proves to be a bit too difficult for him. By then Len has completely lost it, as well as his savings, and everyone in the family from his wife Shirley on down know what a sick and homicidal nut case he really was. Mike who's been smuggling pot across the Mexican border had the by now desperate Len make him a partner in crime to get a cut in his pot profits .This resulted with Mike's latest pot shipment, that Len was hoping would bail him out of his financial troubles, intercepted by corrupt US drug agents who ended up selling it themselves!Completely out of his skull and desperate for cash Len goes through with his plan to knock off Mike,like he did George,to get the insurance money. But by then his favorite daughter Carol just had about all she could take from her money hungry as well as boozed up and pill popping father and decided to turn him, with her sworn court testimony,into the police and local D.A's office. This lead to Len making a complete fool of himself in court, where he was on trail for murder and insurance fraud, and later when facing life behind bars took the easy way out by ending it all.

greyjamie I haven't seen the movie, but decided to research it after spending the day and talking about it with my grandmother, Barbara Fagot Mathews. So whoever did "research" to find out if it is a true story... here's the newspaper article: http://www.geocities.com/murder_stories3/carol_donahue1.htmlBy the way, he was my grandmother's first cousin. She knew him very well as a child, but after a serious fight between Leonard his once inseparable cousin (her brother, my great uncle), they stopped talking to that side of the family.Apparently I have to have 10 lines to comment, so now I will babble. Was the movie any good? Maybe I'll try to get a copy of it.

TCall2004 I came upon this movie as I was channel-surfing on a Sunday afternoon (a bad day for television, even with digital cable).Lifetime was showing it and when I saw the cast, I decided to watch.The late Robert Urich did a marvelous job in the TV movie "Blind Faith" as Robert Marshall, the NJ insurance man who had his wife, Maria, murdered in 1984, and is now serving life in prison.He did not disappoint in this movie as a control freak of a father who went so far as to kill his two sons-in-law for insurance money (and to blow off his own right hand for the same reason).A truly scary guy.A young Gwyneth Paltrow (one of my favorite actresses) did an equally terrific job as Carol Fagot Holland, the daughter who was loyal to her father at first but , in the end, helped to bring him down.Roxanne Zal also does a good job playing Urich's psychotic second wife, Marty.Shelley Fabrares does not get enough air time in this move, but makes good use when she is on screen.Good scenery , fine acting.Nice way to kill two hours on a Sunday afternoon.I'd recommend it.

triple8 I walked in while this was playing on tv but managed to catch most or all of it. The plot involves an overcontrolling father obsessed with running the lives of his daughters as well as his wife who eventually begins murdering people to keep that control. This movie was actually interesting and REALLY well acted. What's interesting to see is this movie stars Gwenyth Paltrow as one of the daughters and she is VERY GOOD in it-this was a made for tv movie made in Paltrow's early days I guess. I had never heard of it until I saw it on tv. EVERYONE is good in it, the actor who plays the dad is wonderful and the movie is very sad. I'd recomend it. Even back then you can see how talented Platrow is.