A Killing in a Small Town (1990)

This film, hauntingly shot be cinematographer Robert Elswit (There Will be Blood, Good Night and Good Luck, also Waterland and Paris Trout), delves deep beneath the serene and well organized surface of Texas housewife and Sunday School teacher, Candy Morrison (Barbara Hershey, in a multi-award winning performance). Hoping to escape from the boredom of her small-town life, Candy engages in a careful affair with a fellow churchgoer, but when his wife Peggy learns of the relationship, she attacks Candy with an axe; after a struggle, it is Candy who kills Peggy, hitting her 41 times with the axe. This True Story has moments of intense brutality, but what is explored is far more than the sensationalist headlines that followed the real-life story, far more than your standard view of the pundits when this kind of violence flares in our good communities. It is a human story, entangled with many of the questions that need to be asked of us all, even as it is only one of us who succumbs to this kind of chaos.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Robert Elswit
• Barbara Hershey
• stephen
• gyllenhaal

[AlabasterDog]

@Gregorgeous hey we want to see it again too! Can you put it up pretty please?

:)

[givemeabreak1219]

This movie is based in wylie tx, i live here. Its kinda creepy. lol

[SuperCharlene2010]

Respond to this video... BARBARA HERSHEY IS A VERY GOOD ACTRESS.

[SuperCharlene2010]

@sadeyez102 thats what i want to know lol

[Gregorgeous]

I have this movie on DVD, watched it again the other night. Barbara Hershey's performance remains one of the best I've ever seen by any actress.

[sweetprism00]

@gastonave Haha I totally understand why he would be, but I think they wanted someone with Denehy's passion--the lawyer's looks in the TV adaptation weren't relevant. Not that it was you who was mad about it or anything--I guess that'd be what I said to him if I heard him griping about it.

[wylieeastful]

im pretty sure i live in that town :o

[sadeyez102]

Anyone have the full movie to upload?

[crabfishlion]

I had a dream of young barbara hershey. She was naked squating with a pretty vagina. Wierd. Not even all that attracted to her.

[gastonave]

This happened where I grew up and the defense lawyer who's real name was Don Crowder was the father of a classmate of mine. Crowder was fanatical about sports and physical fitness and it infuriated him that they chose a fat actor to portray him.