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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Lifetime
Salesrank: 30522
Released: November 8, 2005 |
| Our Price: $16.86 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Two Lifetime movies based on true events explore the rags-to-riches lives of women on the edge. In Widow on the Hill, Natasha Henstridge (Species) stars as a nurse who cares for a dying woman, marries the rich widower (James Brolin)... and ultimately faces charges of poisoning him. Did she take a shortcut on her scandalous road from rags to riches? In Lies My Mother Told Me, Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck) plays a con artist who changes identities faster than most women change hair color. Going on the lam with her daughter (Hayden Panettiere of Ice Princess), she scams her way into a prosperous marriage and, when that union sours, pulls off a murder scheme that may be her very last con.
DVD Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interviews:Interviews with cast and crew of Lies My Mother Told Me and Widow on the Hill
Lies My Mother Told Me / Widow on the Hill Reviews:
WORTH THE WAIT! 
2009-11-15 - i GOT THESE DVD'S AT THE LIBRARY AND ENJOYED BOTH OF THE STORIES. ONE THING I WILL SAY IS THEY WERE BOTH SO SAD. IF ONE IS IN THE MOOD FOR A TEAR JERKER THESE ARE THE MOVIES FOR YOU.
heathers 
2009-05-13 - i have this movie and i think its one of lifetime better of the movies but lifetime has may good movies this was very good .
Awesome Movies
2008-07-24 - Just my opinion.......As a two pack of movies...this pack is GREAT!!
You know sometimes you get a pack and one is good and the other sucks? Well this is not the case. A must have for Lifetime fans!
Crime damages not only the victims, but also children who are powerless 
2007-02-18 - LIES MY MOTHER TOLD ME (2005), strangely directed by
Canadian Christian Duguay, considering this is a TV
production, is said to be based on real events having
occurred in North Carolina and California.
It is one of those stories that can't help but ending
tragically, considering it's not a Hollywood production.
Consequently, it entertains little or not at all,
unfortunately.
The socially redeeming value of this work, is perhaps the
lesson it teaches, that all actions, have consequences.
That those crossing the legal line, can and will reap
serious legal, potentially life-threatening repercussions
in this day and age. For example, a murder, in this case,
by the protagonist of this picture, was not left
unpunished.
Conversely, the touching aspect, over the length of the
movie, is the innocent, inexperienced, limited point of
view on events transpired from the perpective of the
daughter of the perpetrator. The action is perhaps taken
directly from the daughter's diary, who recollects on her
chaotic, confused childhood.
On the other hand, the actions of the protagonist, played
credibly by actress Joely Richardson, is astonishing, not
only in the varied aspects of misconduct, and in their
seriousness (to the point, as stated, of a murder), but in
the length of time that it took for the penal system to
catch up with those dastardly deeds. It goes without
saying, (without wanting to sound righteous, considering
that eventually, the perpetrator died in prison or shortly
after), that those surely shocked, flabbergasted and
horrified those in the community, despite most of the
acts, not being violent, but insidious schemes. It is said
that in 2006, ID theft has become one of the most widely
abused schemes for some to reap financial gain. However,
the lesson of this movie, should perhaps be learned by
those considering going down that road.
For Widow on the Hill
2007-01-19 - This was one of the best lifetime type dramas I have seen. It is also one of the most disturbing. The behavior of this woman unsettled me so that I have been trying to find out what the final conclusion was on the internet. I have been unsucessful thus far. I know of other situations in real life where a spouse was accused of murdering (or attempting to murder) their wife/husband...one of which happened down the street from me (von Bulow in the 1980's) yet this is more chilling.
