i be just watch a forensic file marathon on court tv . the episode be identical to the plot of this movie and right down to the incest secret and the affair with the sister subplot . i do not recall any base on a true story disclaimer and but the case do have mow write all over it . apparently it chronicle the real homicide of ruby morris by her husband earl and sentence to 25 year to life for her murder . just go to show you and truth can be strange than fiction and because i think the lifetime plot be contrive and a more than a stretch insofar a believability go . i be with the other poster who say the acting be bad . i do not notice it with all of the player and though . it be really the lead character and the daughter and whose performance be bad .