anniefairfield First off, great title! Also, great star in Christina Ricci as Lizzie Borden. This is not your typical Lifetime movie. I don't watch much Lifetime but I saw the ad for this, and I was like I'm in! I like dark, eerie movies. This was not nearly as dark as it could have been, but given that it was a TV movie on Lifetime, it was much darker and creepier than their usual fare. Great performance by Ricci, and good suspense throughout. The house, town, period piece elements were also really good.

gavin6942 The true story of Lizzie Borden (Christina Ricci), a young woman tried and acquitted in the 1892 murders of her father and stepmother.My rating on this film is a bit lower than it possibly should be. Honestly, the only reason it is not better than it is stems from the limitations of being a made-for-TV movie. The budget is limited and other matters may be truncated or simplified. But you have to give them credit, because despite the limits everyone gave 100% and we even get decent gore.Most interesting, at least to me, is how the writer tried to stick to the historical record. Maybe not perfect (what is?), but where the film could have been sensational, it instead follows the more or less true story of the murders and trial. The "whacks" are not 40, and even the death locations match the known photographs.

JKlein9823 Christina Ricci has certainly evolved as an actress since playing Wednesday in "The Addams Family" (1991). This is a very enjoyable, well-made film. I came across this on streaming Netflix, and what a pleasant surprise it was. The musical score is interesting - electric guitars, rock music, etc., which are incongruous with the time period (1890s), but somehow it WORKS. Good art direction, costuming, photography, and overall production values. Christina Ricci's performance definitely makes this worthwhile. I couldn't help comparing it to the Elizabeth Montgomery TV movie version, "The Legend of Lizzie Borden" (1975). There are elements of both films which I like.

TxMike I was able to see this on Netflix streaming movies. Although I had heard of, like most people, the Borden murders I really knew little about them. This is a good presentation of what we know from history, and what many speculate. It pretty well follows the historical and police accounts.I have always been a fan of Christina Ricci and she is superb as Lizzie Borden. She plays her age, early 30s, still living at home with her dad and his wife, her stepmom. Her mother died when she was very young, about 2, and had no recollection of her. Mr Borden was a successful businessman and by today's standards, adjusted for inflation, would have a wealth of several million dollars. But he was frugal and ruled his house. Lizzie was headstrong and didn't easily take instructions counter to what she wanted to do.As history records the Mrs was murdered first, then maybe 1 1/2 hours later the Mr. The prosecutor's theory was Lizzie murdered them, and did her dad second, so that the inheritances would work out, assets of the Mrs passed to her husband, then his assets passed to Lizzie and her sister.But it was never proved, there was no evidence or eye-witness, and Lizzie was found 'not guilty' at a highly publicized trial. But the movie depicts her as guilty, showing how she removed her clothes to avoid blood spatter on her, then got dressed at the end, to scream and attract attention to her dad's murder. It also depicts an unheard whispering into her sister's ear as Lizzie tells her exactly what happened, and her sister goes away horrified. Her sister is played by Clea DuVall, also age appropriate in her 40s, as Emma Borden.Of course we cannot know for sure if Lizzie did it, but this movie adopts the POV that she did and got away with it.Good movie, I enjoyed it.