FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

BreanneB I have been a fan of Farrah Fawcett ever since I first saw her performance in "The Burning Bed." She no doubt plays just as good in this film. I was sad when she died.I'm going to read the book that this movie is based on. Diane Downs was an eccentric, enigmatic, cold-hearted selfish person who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. She even went to the extreme of killing her one daughter and trying to kill her other daughter and her son just so she could be with a man. Scummy bitch.Of course when she is questioned by the authorities she gives them this bogus story that when her and her kids were driving down a dark road some bushy haired guy flagged them down claiming to need help. She also tells them that he then brandished a gun and fired at them. How ridiculous is that? Nobody would stop on a dark street in the middle of nowhere and let a total stranger get near them like she claimed.Diane got away with it for awhile but she finally got caught, thank God. Also, I'm glad she was sentenced to two life terms plus some other additional time. She deserves it. I'm also happy that the DA in that case adopted her two surviving children. They deserve loving and caring parents, not a scumbag like her.

whpratt1 Enjoyed viewing Gordon Clapp,(Detective Doug Welch),"Splendor Falls",'99,)(NYPDBLUE), who starred in this picture and really gave Farrah Fawcett,(Diane Downs),"The Cookout",'04, a very hard time because of things that happened to her very own children. This story is about a Diane Downs who is desperately seeking to find true love in her life and winds up going from one husband to another and plenty of one night stands. Diane claims that her very own father molested her many times and gave her very little attention except for sexual advances. This story goes into great detail about all her affairs and there is a very long trial which Diane has to encounter. Farrah Fawcett gave an outstanding performance and I wish she would perform in many more pictures.

cinemakim Two thumbs up to Farah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal and the ever talented John Shea.So much for being a dumb blonde - Farah rocked. She took being "unfit" to a whole new level. I thought I had seen the best in her in "Extremities" but she once again showed the "acting world" that she is a force to be reckoned with. Ryan has still got the good looks and the acting to go with it.John Shea's portrayal of the Prosecutor was RIGHT ON! He exhibited a determination that wasn't his job . . . . it simply was the right thing to do for the protection of the children. A must have for a movie collector (it needs to be in DVD form also)!

Keith F. Hatcher I was drawn to watching this TV film as seeing the main actors were Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, I was misguided into thinking it would be a good evening's viewing.I say that, not because either of these actors played their parts badly; indeed, O'Neal only has a rather small part. Having such good actors, and John Shea was rather good, it would have been befitting if the film had moulded itself to a different architecture: the so predictable style for television films made all acting concepts be limited to the same formula. Thus, frequently, Ms. Fawcett tended to overact rather than interpret the complicated characteriology of Diane Downs. The unfolding of the story, the telling of it, and the directing was so glued to preset standardised TV formulas, that there was very little any of the actors or anybody else could have done to add more depth and realism to the job. The end result, therefore, is as disappointing as the predictability: unadventurous and trite and no surprises anywhere to help it along.