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Lizzie Borden Took an Ax is a american film of genre Drama directed by Nicholas Sean Gomez(Nick Gomez) released in USA on 25 january 2014 with Christina Ricci
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 25 january 2014
Length 1h27
Directed by Nicholas Sean Gomez(Nick Gomez)
OriginUSA
Rating58%
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax is a 2014 American television biopic about the true story of Lizzie Borden, a young American woman tried and acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892. It premiered on Lifetime on January 25, 2014.
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Synopsis
Based on the true story of Lizzie Borden, a Sunday School teacher who lived with her father Andrew, her stepmother Abby, and her older sister Emma in a small house in Fall River, Massachusetts, the film depicts a hot summer day in August 1892 in the Borden home where Lizzie comes across the grisly murder scene of her father who was brutally killed with a hatchet. After local law enforcement responds to the scene, the body of Abby Borden is discovered upstairs, also killed with an ax. As the case progresses, the evidence gathered by the authorities seems to point to Lizzie as their prime suspect. Lizzie's lawyer Andrew Jennings, however, maintains that a woman could not commit such a cruel act; arguing it is far too gruesome a crime for any woman to commit. Regardless, Lizzie is put on trial for the murders and the courtroom case makes headlines in newspapers throughout the country. Newspaper accounts state the crime to be the most infamous of the century. Eventually, the jury finds Lizzie innocent of all charges. The film ends with a fight between Emma and Lizzie, in which Lizzie asks Emma if she wanted know the truth. Lizzie then whispers inaudibly into Emma's ear while a series of flashbacks are shown in which Lizzie murders their stepmother and father. It is heavily implied that Lizzie Borden was in fact their murderer, and a visibly upset Emma leaves the room. Lizzie walks outside and hears three children jump roping to the famous nursery rhyme: "Lizzie Borden took an ax/ And gave her mother forty wacks/ And when she saw what she had done/ She gave her father forty-one." Emma is then shown leaving the house, never to return.Actors
Christina Ricci
(Lizzie Borden)
Clea DuVall
(Emma Borden)
Billy Campbell
(Andrew Jennings)
Shawn Doyle
(Marshall Hilliard)
Sara Botsford
(Abby Morse Borden)
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