Murder of Innocence 1993 Directed by Tom McLoughlin
In this shocking account based on a true story, newlywed Laurie Wade finds her marriage, and eventually the rest of her life, shattered by her deep-rooted psychotic behavior. The young woman soon begins a terrifying descent into insanity and brings danger to all those around her as she goes from brief "short-circuits" to overtly murderous behavior.
Valerie Bertinelli Stephen Caffrey Graham Beckel Jerry Hardin Millie Perkins Justin Whalin Anne Ramsay Steven Banks Frank Novak Megan Cavanagh John Scott Clough Juanita Jennings Nancy McLoughlin Charles Carroll Albert Ash Ronald G. Joseph Whitney Rydbeck Jill Ito Joyce Meadows Robert Harvey Jay W. MacIntosh Cassy Friel
Tom McLoughlin, director of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, takes on the true crime case of Laurie Dann, whose name was changed in Murder of Innocence to Laurie Wade (played obsessively by Valerie Bertinelli).
In the first half of the movie, they're establishing just how unstable Laurie was, really sensationalizing her illness by depicting her doing everything from removing all the food from her refrigerator & replacing it with teddy bears & nail polish, rubbing raw meat all over herself, drawing stick figures in lipstick on mirrors/walls, to placing furniture all over the place--neatly stacked--like she's the angry, misplaced ghosts in Poltergeist.
The final part reins in the outlandishness a bit to make room for her real life unhinged rampage (liberties taken, it actually plays up the shooting part and downplays other things, America...).
Unlike a lot of TV movies that are ripped from the headlines and based on true crimes, this is actually... really good?
Tom McLoughlin directs this and manages a truly tricky balance of hitting that sensationalized tone these movies always go for, without completely trivializing the seriousness of what happened. Does this movie have a pretty skewed and unrealistic portrayal of mental health? It's definitely not the most sensitive movie about this stuff, that's for sure.
But, I thought what was really effective about Murder of Innocence is that it never fully demonizes Laurie Dann (cough, sorry Laurie Wade played incredibly by Valerie Bertinelli) and instead is pretty explicit about the ways everyone in her life failed her and ignored…
My mom has been talking about the same Hallmark movie for literally my entire life and never tracked it down until recently. When she learned it was Murder of Innocence, she immediately spent $20 for a DVD of it on Amazon. So I sit down to finally see this movie she's been hyping up literally my entire life, and five minutes in she's like, "This is the wrong movie," so we track down the right movie which is actually a miniseries called In A Child's Name, and now she's dropped another $25 to get a DVD of that.
As for this film, it was pretty good. It started off very disjointed and kinda too fast and then it had a…
It is a travesty that, 30 years later, the mental health field continues to be underutilized and so many fall through the cracks, suffering conditions that could be treated if anyone took the time to care.
My made for tv movie binge continues. A forgotten based on a true story movie that osscilates between a silly, over the top portrayal of mental illness and frighteningly dark — especially the unforgettable resolution. Bertinelli is great in this and RIP Eddie Van Halen.
One of better examples of sleazy ripped-from-the-headlines TV movie making. Many horror elements are mixed into this one. It is from the director who helmed the best, or at least most fun Friday The 13th film, Jason Lives. The acting is pretty solid. It would be a really fun time if it wasn't always in the back of your mind that this is based on a true story. It also takes a pretty clumsy and probably out right damaging approach to mental health.
A TV movie from 1993 about a woman who was quite possibly a schizophrenic is going to play out exactly how you'd expect it to. Valerie Bertinelli doesn't go full tilt over the top but I can't imagine this movie being an honest reflection of the life of Laurie Dann, the real woman whose life this is based on. As a movie, judged on it's own merits, this was honestly a pretty good time. There's a lot of stuff in here that should be horrifying but instead comes off as slightly comical due to the limitations of a made-for-tv movie. I will give credit to Tom McLoughlin for not phoning this in as a director and to Charles Bornstein for…
I like this movie . Valerie can really act. To me this movie was a good must see horror movie.Tells how bad mental illness can be ..
if her parents had gotten her the help her husband told them she needed they could have prevented all of this
My mom has been talking about the same Hallmark movie for literally my entire life and never tracked it down until recently. When she learned it was Murder of Innocence, she immediately spent $20 for a DVD of it on Amazon. So I sit down to finally see this movie she's been hyping up literally my entire life, and five minutes in she's like, "This is the wrong movie," so we track down the right movie which is actually a miniseries called In A Child's Name, and now she's dropped another $25 to get a DVD of that.
As for this film, it was pretty good. It started off very disjointed and kinda too fast and then it had a…
Unlike a lot of TV movies that are ripped from the headlines and based on true crimes, this is actually... really good?
Tom McLoughlin directs this and manages a truly tricky balance of hitting that sensationalized tone these movies always go for, without completely trivializing the seriousness of what happened. Does this movie have a pretty skewed and unrealistic portrayal of mental health? It's definitely not the most sensitive movie about this stuff, that's for sure.
But, I thought what was really effective about Murder of Innocence is that it never fully demonizes Laurie Dann (cough, sorry Laurie Wade played incredibly by Valerie Bertinelli) and instead is pretty explicit about the ways everyone in her life failed her and ignored…
My made for tv movie binge continues. A forgotten based on a true story movie that osscilates between a silly, over the top portrayal of mental illness and frighteningly dark — especially the unforgettable resolution. Bertinelli is great in this and RIP Eddie Van Halen.
One of better examples of sleazy ripped-from-the-headlines TV movie making. Many horror elements are mixed into this one. It is from the director who helmed the best, or at least most fun Friday The 13th film, Jason Lives. The acting is pretty solid. It would be a really fun time if it wasn't always in the back of your mind that this is based on a true story. It also takes a pretty clumsy and probably out right damaging approach to mental health.
It is a travesty that, 30 years later, the mental health field continues to be underutilized and so many fall through the cracks, suffering conditions that could be treated if anyone took the time to care.
A TV movie from 1993 about a woman who was quite possibly a schizophrenic is going to play out exactly how you'd expect it to. Valerie Bertinelli doesn't go full tilt over the top but I can't imagine this movie being an honest reflection of the life of Laurie Dann, the real woman whose life this is based on. As a movie, judged on it's own merits, this was honestly a pretty good time. There's a lot of stuff in here that should be horrifying but instead comes off as slightly comical due to the limitations of a made-for-tv movie. I will give credit to Tom McLoughlin for not phoning this in as a director and to Charles Bornstein for…
I like this movie . Valerie can really act. To me this movie was a good must see horror movie.Tells how bad mental illness can be ..
Newlywed Laurie Wade finds her marriage, and eventually the rest of her life, shattered by her deep-rooted psychotic behavior. She goes from brief "short-circuits" to overtly murderous behavior. The film never tries to explain the cause of her mental collapse (except for a hint or two) but instead takes us into her frightening state of mind(Jonathan A. Cullum)
Definitely in the lifetime movie category. It's reasonably well made and provides an insight into a truly damaged mind, without explanation - which apparently no one knows.
Tom McLoughlin, director of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, takes on the true crime case of Laurie Dann, whose name was changed in Murder of Innocence to Laurie Wade (played obsessively by Valerie Bertinelli).
In the first half of the movie, they're establishing just how unstable Laurie was, really sensationalizing her illness by depicting her doing everything from removing all the food from her refrigerator & replacing it with teddy bears & nail polish, rubbing raw meat all over herself, drawing stick figures in lipstick on mirrors/walls, to placing furniture all over the place--neatly stacked--like she's the angry, misplaced ghosts in Poltergeist.
The final part reins in the outlandishness a bit to make room for her real life unhinged rampage (liberties taken, it actually plays up the shooting part and downplays other things, America...).
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