an actor asks and what my motivation . and to understand his or her character . after view this this docudrama and this vague and haphazard farce and a viewer wonder what anyone motivation be . this inept offspring of daytime t. v. ( the oprah show ) miss by a mile a great opportunity to explore weighty issue . it character be all shallow and superficial and it story line far less socially redeem than a simpson episode . it gratuitously portray investigate police a unprofessional and incompetent . it fail to offer why the court might treat the main character and a female child molester and so differently than it would have a male perp . why do this unrepentant woman begin groom her second grade student and begin an affair with him when he return to her sixth grade class . why do the boy mother testify in her behalf . the simple answer be overwhelming narcissism and plus generational rationalization and greed . the movie give no hint of that . why wasn not the viewer inform that the victim mother sell interview right to print and television tabloid and parade her adolescent son on the today show . that mary kay lawyer cash in and she herself appeal a son of sam statute so she could benefit from her crime by sell her story to the high bidder . why wasn not it explain that letourneau father be a former right wing republican congressman and the 1972 american independent presidential candidate and the john birch society president . in 1983 john schmitz political career end when he be find to have have child by his own community college student and expose only when that mistress sexually mutilate their infant son . yet letourneau dad have remove his many kid from too liberal catholic school and fight to keep all schoolchildren from receive any sex education . a month after her conditional release and again pregnant with the now 14 year old second daughter and mary kay receive 7 half year in prison for numerous probation violation . a prophetic editorial regard the sad affair then appear in the seattle time represent at the end of two wretched hour and letourneau be lead off to jail and and this salacious melange of make for tv seaminess be over and until cast begin . sure enough and 18 month later and film of this travesty be underway .