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Plot summary

Frances Schreuder is a mother who is mean to her sons and sometimes her only daughter, especially when she imagines that they're not living up to what she expects them to be as her children. Greedy and selfish, she decides she wants her inheritance from her rich, multimillionaire-although miserly-father, auto parts and oil industrialist Franklin Bradshaw. Frances has done many bad things to get what she wants. For example, she has forged some of her father's checks to get things she wants and had her sons steal money from him when they were visiting him the summer before his death. She eventually decides she wants her money right away, especially when she finds he drew up a new, although unofficial, will that specifically left her and her children out of it. Frances manipulates her son Marc into murdering her father under the fear of her ejecting him from her home if he didn't commit the murder, as she had already ejected her older son (firstborn of her three children), Larry, from her home just for getting a 3.7

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Cast

* E.G. Marshall as Franklin Bradshaw *

as Frances Schreuder *

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as Marc Schreuder *

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as Ashley Schreuder * Corey Parker as Larry Schreuder *

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as Lois Turner *

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as Jeol Campbell * Ray Baker as Michael George *

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as Berenice Bradshaw *

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as Detective Rogen * George Sullivan as Detective Voyles * Roberts Blossom as Doug Steele *

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as Steve Klein * Dan Lauria as Myles Manning * Louis Borgenicht as Stanley Turner *

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as Nancy Jones *

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as Bank Teller

Production

Parts of the miniseries were shot in Salt Lake City, Utah.

References

External links

* 1987 television films 1987 films 1980s American television miniseries American films based on actual events American television films 1980s English-language films {{US-tv-drama-film-stub