A Murder to Remember

Ten minutes in and I'm not continuing. This is bad and horribly acted, rather it was overacted. That bug-eyed girl was annoying, or maybe it's the result of lame dialogue and shoddy direction (Robin Givens? That figures).

The names may have changed and some liberties were taken with the story line but this made for TV film appears to have been based on the real life murder in Mount Hood, Oregon, by 29 year old Thomas Brown who killed 21-year-old Julio Torres and then kidnapped his 16-year-old wife Candra Torres. Thomas Brown after repeatedly raping Candra in the deep woods he convinced her to tell the authorities his murder of her husband Julio Torres was a hunting accident and then the two of them could be a couple after Thomas Brown eliminated her husband Julio. At least that was the murderer Thomas Brown's plan until his rape victim the 16 year old (now) widow Candra Torres changed her false story she initially gave to the police and came clean.

There is a Forensic Files episode in season 9, episode 10, titled "Head Games" which aired in 2004 that depicts this crime in 30 minutes much better than this made for TV film does..

I give this film a ho hum IMDB rating of 5 out of 10

Give me a break. The actresses in this were horrible. Overly dramatic and so emotional. This was a sad situation but to watch this movie made me want to throw up because of the wife being so needy from the beginning when everything was good. What kind of women acts like that? Seriously? Again. Not that she didn't have a right to have issues after what was done but from the beginning she was so giddy and dramatic I caught myself eye rolling and mocking her as if her mother had kept her in a love cage her whole life. And the sheriff? Ha I wouldn't take her seriously if my house was broken into and she was there to investigate. This could have been a really good show. So new director or cast??? You tell me.

One of very few one-star ratings from me. This is horrifically bad, even by the very low standards of Lifetime movies. Granted, they had a truly awful script to work with (how do you mess up a true story?), but the acting is comically terrible (all of them, but the police chief is worst of all - yikes). And why did they cast an actress who looks like she's twelve? It made the whole thing even less believable, and I just didn't care what happened to the characters one way or another. Please don't waste your time on this like I did.

Thats a couple of hours i will not get back. Obviously this one was made for tv. The lead female was not so good. Well done the male "baddie" his acting was pretty intense and i think he will go onto better things at least i hope. This wasnt up to much so no dont bother. could have been so much more.