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True-crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenage students to murder her estranged husband.True-crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenage students to murder her estranged husband.True-crime story of a Wisconsin teacher's aide who hired teenage students to murder her estranged husband.
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- TriviaAmy Smart's debut.
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Diane Kay Borchardt: [voice-over] The front door will be unlocked. Then on your right is a gun cabinet. You take the shotgun and you walk down the stairs, to the basement where he sleeps. And you do it. You turn around and walk up the stairs, and you toss a few things around to make believe it was a robbery. And then you leave. It's so easy.
- ConnectionsEdited into Ann-Margret: Från Valsjöbyn till Hollywood (2014)
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Ann-Margaret really got a chance to strut her stuff as an actress in this riveting TV movie about a seductive temptress/schoolteacher who convinces three or her students to murder her husband by claiming he was abusive to her when actually she was the abusive one. Ann-Margaret completely loses herself in this complex and unsympathetic character whose true story is the stuff that movies of the week are made of and Ann-Margaret pulls it off beautifully and effortlessly makes Diane the woman you love to hate. Peter Coyote, an actor who has often been overshadowed by the actresses he has worked with, manages to hold his own as Diane's victimized husband, a devoted husband and father who is completely powerless over this madwoman whose universe he is unable to escape from in time. Writer Buck Henry told a similar story in less time and to greater effect in TO DIE FOR, a theatrical film which featured an amazing performance by Nicole Kidman, but Ann-Margret did Emmy worthy work as the twisted and terrible Diane Borchardt.
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- ijonesiii
- Nov 26, 2005
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By what name was Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story (1996) officially released in Canada in English?
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