Autopsie d'un crime

Original title: The Burning Bed

TV Movie
1984
Not Rated
1h 35m

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Farrah Fawcett, Christa Denton, Elizabeth Lyn Fraser, and David Friedman in Autopsie d'un crime (1984)

An abused battered wife has had enough of her husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fir... Read allAn abused battered wife has had enough of her husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.An abused battered wife has had enough of her husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.

Director
- Robert Greenwald
Writers
- Rose Leiman Goldemberg
- Faith McNulty
Stars

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7.2/10

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Director
- Robert Greenwald
Writers
- Rose Leiman Goldemberg
- Faith McNulty
Stars

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Nominated for 8 Primetime Emmys
- 3 wins & 17 nominations total

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Trivia
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, member of R&B group TLC watched this movie as a child with her sister. She was motivated to set her abusive father on fire in retaliation for abusing her mother on a daily basis as child. In the height of her fame, Lisa made national news for burning her boyfriend NFL star Andre Rison's house after setting stuffed teddy bears on fire in a bathtub.

Goofs
When Mickey pounds the kitchen windows to threaten Francine, he repeats "I'm going to break the door with your face" at two different points, with the same inflections each time, revealing the line as recorded dialogue.

Quotes
Hazel Moran: If you make a hard bed, you have to lay in it.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Farrah Fawcett/Ryan O'Neal/Pete Fountain (1984)

Soundtracks
Tell Him
Written by Bert Berns
Performed by The Exciters(uncredited)

User reviews54

Featured review

Critique the movie, not the events.

Some people seem to be judging this movie based on what happened more so than the quality of the movie. The movie, we must remember, is based on a true story (that took place in a completely different time and place than we know now). The events in the film are real, though certainly dramatized. So, the fact that the police don't help the woman and her family does not support her and how unrealistic it all seems only adds to the impact of the story since it is true. I won't say this is a perfect movie, and certainly it is skewed to make the wife seem completely right and the husband completely wrong (because it plays better for a TV audience to not have ambiguities); but, I don't think it's fair to judge the film based on things that really happened. To look at the events in this movie and not believe they happened is to miss the entire point of the movie. The people in this woman's life pretended not to see things and chose not to believe her. But these things do happen, whether we chose to acknowledge them or not.