If there was a time when a movie should have been longer "Murder In New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story" was one. The movie which is poorly casted seems rushed. We do get very little time to really get into the characters let alone feel for anyone. Helen Hunt as Pamela Smart is over the top and so convincing. Chad Allen as William "Billy" Flynn I think couldn't act his way out of a room with no walls.
While the actors who portray the kids are well below par the actors playing the adults are above par. The main issue though that this movie has is it spends too much time showing the intimacy between Pamela and Billy that it starts to lose track on the main plot. What should have been a 3 hour movie to really balance it out is only 90 minutes and the amount of information they had up to that point was enough to give the viewer a real dose of what happened.
I have read everything on this case even two books and I admit they skipped a lot. She was as innocent as Godzilla is real. She used her body to seduce a 15 year old and convinced him to kill her husband. The kids were actually slow learners and very unpopular at school. Pamela on the other hand wanted success on the level of Barbara Walters and was intimidated by the fact that she was stuck teaching kids that were not as smart as they should have been. This movie just doesn't show the dark side as it could have but I will add that it did do a better job than "To Die For".
It just comes off as a average TV movie that could have been much more than what it is.
While the actors who portray the kids are well below par the actors playing the adults are above par. The main issue though that this movie has is it spends too much time showing the intimacy between Pamela and Billy that it starts to lose track on the main plot. What should have been a 3 hour movie to really balance it out is only 90 minutes and the amount of information they had up to that point was enough to give the viewer a real dose of what happened.
I have read everything on this case even two books and I admit they skipped a lot. She was as innocent as Godzilla is real. She used her body to seduce a 15 year old and convinced him to kill her husband. The kids were actually slow learners and very unpopular at school. Pamela on the other hand wanted success on the level of Barbara Walters and was intimidated by the fact that she was stuck teaching kids that were not as smart as they should have been. This movie just doesn't show the dark side as it could have but I will add that it did do a better job than "To Die For".
It just comes off as a average TV movie that could have been much more than what it is.