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Name: Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
Released: 2014-1-25
Cast: Christina Ricci, Billy Campbell, Clea Duvall

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax

NR
1h 40m
2014

40%

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A sweltering hot day in Massachusetts, 1892, is pierced by the brutal double murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden that would stun the nation. Lizzie (Christina Ricci), a wholesome Sunday school teacher and Mr. Borden's youngest daughter, quickly becomes the prime suspect. Now, as her lawyer Andrew Jennings (Billy Campbell) proclaims her innocence, the original good-girl-gone-bad will stand trial in one of the most gripping, gruesome mysteries of all time. Her name will forever live in infamy and the eerie children's rhyme will continue to haunt those that know the story, but the truth is anything but clear.

Cast:

Christina Ricci, Billy Campbell, Clea Duvall

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

40%

Reviews

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Chelsea Steiner

Whenever any of the characters in this movie talk about the murder, we see the same quick shots of bloody axes and bodies.

Lifetime's made-for-TV movie Lizzie Borden Took an Axe covers the events of the murder and ensuing trial, but doesn't really get any deeper into the crime than the schoolyard chant does.

Included are the trial and all the trimmings. What's missing is the horror of the event. Except for a few shots of dear old daddy's caved-in face, there's not much gore, even for a TV movie.