Waste of time

i must have seen a different film!!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

love how she said"next time you steal someone kid or accuse Someone prosecutor etc.JUST GET YOUR STORY RIGHT NEXT TIME because my SON has NO BRUISING/BRUISES OVER HIS BODY,THE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN SHOW THIS,SO get your story RIGHT next time.she is so right so many parents as self were FALSELY ACCUSED.The ending show us just how RIGHT Shannon character was telling the ostensible crooked state this who falsely accused her.LOVE IT!!! SHANNEN/KEVIN ROCKS IN THIS MOVIE.SO TRUE.what a GREAT film same as the other true story involving cps-dyfs worker as a prosecutor entitled JUST ASK MY CHILDREN another GREAT TRUE TO LIFE film effecting children mothers good parents etc who are completely innocent.love it...Reminding our advocacy organization at GOOD MOMS FIGHT DYFS and CPS DYFS FALSIFIES RECORDS in n.j.& nationwide,where as our advocate was falsely accused as "Cy and David"in this film NOT of strangulation no.but child abuse "Excessive corporal"yet PHOTOGRAPHS left behind by child case worker.(& woman prosecuting case ALL LATER verified to have LIED LIED LIED!) her suit is currently pending under MELENDEZ in u.s. federal court as well as STATE for BRAND NEW Violations. clearly this movie show just how EVIL nefariously mean,hateful the so called ostensible "state employees"can be just to secure a WIN.built on a lie. i am so happy they were later acquitted. reading most comments here i tear with you when i watch cry plus smile when they WON the right to go home with their other child(ren)finally was reunited.i see most agreeing this movie was indeed almost four hours long! loll but worth it,the grandmother play by lovely Dixie carter was awesome. as Lou grant who help them so MUCH as investigation he ran help them a lot.AFTER HE READ THE ENTIRE CASE FILE HE KNEW MOM WAS Innocent as dave long movie YES! but who cares,it was a great film so TRUE TO LIFE....later after the movie aired:the parents saying in a interview or two later as also on Oprah many years ago and or another talk show how SHANNEN my girl play the heck out of "Cy" as her husband call her short for cindy.....she was brilliant as father Kevin Dillon part. i love him anyhow great actor in my honest opinion during EACH scene,especially the "rain scene"where as he was like what do you want me to do huh? i am doing all i can here Cy.! tell me what to do i love this movie! great passionate action making me really BELIEVE it was the REAL parents. i love the part where as FINALLY! you see their house of cards crumble"CROOKED prosecutor D.A. office etc. where as CYN find out when FINALLY able to speak to her son ask him,hey Davie"they said you took some pix or something?"he says yes mommy i took pictures of my body but NOT by the policeman mommie. by a "dr." and then Cy turn to the news guys holding press conference! i loved it cause you hear her attorney saying when reporter ask"well how do you explain the BRUISING and all of the BRUISES AS WELL AS LACERATIONS written on here as well as body chart with many markings written by dr.? i love seeing her with her female great attorney say"THEY ONLY LED YOU TO BELIEVE WHAT THEY Wanted the court and media to Believe" that THE PHOTOGRAPHS DO NOT LIE!!I LOVE IT. AND THEY FINALLY WON LAWSUIT (naturally)and in full deserverance of a big settlement for son's pain and little new baby as the parents.just goes to show you 1 little or 2 mark on child do happen to all kids,the pix showing NO BRUISING on this child no bruise at all yet they LIED withheld the son pix. i love this movie actually i got it on right now for 100x since mid 1990s! loll love it true stories on LMN/lifetime movie network always is BEST.adios.

They prove that the cops, when they can't find the REAL perpetrators, always blame the parents and accuse them of sexual abuse of their kids. These movies always depict the press as a bunch of animals and have the parents coming out of court to feed the press' hunger to humiliate the grief-stricken. Hasn't anybody ever heard of a courthouse back door in these movies? Here, you have a psychic who tells them exactly what happened and WHERE the body can be found, but the police are not told and nobody heeds his findings.The police are portrayed as blockheads who don't know what they are doing and there's always an outside detective, like Ed Asner, who comes in late on the case, believes in the parents and solves the mystery.Also, after the parents are cleared, they don't spit in the faces of the dumb cops who put them in jail, took their kid away and accused them of killing their own child.It looked as if I've see this film MANY times before.

A Chicago couple, Dillon and Dougherty, are falsely accused of killing their daughter. People begin to wonder if they did it. The police investigate and find suspicious evidence. The couple are maligned by the public and accused in the press. The cops speculate that they are Satanists and have ritually murdered their own daughter. They are charged and brought to trial. They are represented by publicity-seeking lawyers who give them bad advice and bill them for $100,000. The evidence presented against them is twisted or hidden by the police. Fabricated intimations of sexual abuse are presented. Their other child is taken away from them and put in a foster home. Dougherty is pregnant and gives birth to find her baby removed. Verdict, she didn't do it but he did. He goes to the slams with a sentence of 45 years.In the last third of the movie, with Dillon in jail and Dougherty wondering what to do next, we see people who have been antagonistic now slowly coming to the couple's defense. Witnesses admit to having lied. Other facts are brought to light that, finally, result in Dillon's release. The killer is never found, though the movie gives us a thorough whacko as a plausible perp.This is a weeper from beginning to end. Nothing seems to go right for the couple. Oh, there are a few happy moment, maybe a party where everyone is glad to be together and tearing up with joy, or some point of evidence in their favor is discovered and people hug one another. But it's never long before someone rushes through the door with more bad news and all the faces are frozen in tragic disbelief. (Usually a fade to block follows.) There isn't necessarily anything wrong with moving tragedies, although I can't imagine what pleasure we get out of seeing people suffer. There's plenty of tragedy in Shakespeare too. I suppose whatever we find interesting about tragic stories lies in the way they're told. "Oh, but I am Fortune's fool!" Romeo cries after killing Juliet's brother. Here we have Dougherty running in her robe through a hospital corridor, screaming, "Where's my baby???" There isn't any ambiguity or irony in the story -- as I'm sure there must have been in the real life events on which it's based. People are either good or bad here. Or else they're bad, then they turn good.The film isn't aimed at exploring human quirkiness, or the way things work out. It's aimed at wrenching tears from the audience. The actors provide first-rate role models. I can't remember the last movie in which I saw so many tears. There are rivulets of tears. Showers of them. Cascades of them. A veritable Niagara of them. A Lake Lacrymose of them.Well, I'll give one example of the efficiency with which the movie is crafted. Dillon and Dougherty hire a Chicago cop who works on the side as a private investigator (Ed Asner). Asner is sympathetic to them but he doesn't really accomplish much. He seems to be in the movie not because of his importance to the case but because he can provide the victimized couple with a kind of philosophy -- "Learn to live with it," which is okay -- and because he suffers from colorectal cancer, so we can watch him take his medicine, double over with pain, and finally pass away.What's frustrating about the movie is that in focusing so intensely on the suffering of the couple, it sidesteps one of the more important issues that it raises -- the function of gossip in regulating private lives.Gossip is a strange thing really. If we call it "gossip" it's bad, but if we call it "public opinion" it sounds acceptable, at the very least. Of course we all have convictions about issues that may or may not be justified. (As I write, Michael Jackson is once again being brought to court accused of molesting a young boy, and I wonder how many of us thrilled at the news and immediately assumed he was a pedophile.) But gossip isn't all bad either. It's like water. When it's properly controlled it's a community asset. We need gossip to keep each other in line. It helps us to maintain public order. But, like water in a flood or a tsunami, it is ruinous to a village when it rages out of control.This is a movie that's okay if you're not looking for too much in the way of insight into human nature. It's done so cleverly that, given its goal, it's hard to argue with it.

This film just fantastic.. I LOVE IT!! All that kinda drama, and the way the american police/whatever treats them, it's the truth - and a hard truth!! I love this film... Can't say it enough..!! And Shannen Doherty's my favourite actor, so.. That's a bonus!!! I'd love to own this film... :o)