But it's still a great little movie. ABC no doubt has observed the Spoiler. So, what happened to Jodi Arias and where is she today? "It's all good. Director Peter Werner underplays the irony of a bumper sticker pasted on the wall in the little store where the meeting occurs: "Virginia Is for Lovers." Menu. I am a straight woman who believes in equal rights for everyone. You need to be logged in to continue. co-worker Maggie (Flynn). There John is given a guided tour by mysterious Capt. In what is surely the least expressive role of her extraordinary career Redgrave, the master technician, actually gets sloppy here and loses her Virginia dialect from time to time for an accent that sounds vaguely Midlands England. Can't find a movie or TV show? Speaking of digestion, a scene in which a man's brain is sawed open so an evil alien thingamajig can be extracted is gorier than network TV ought to be. Based on a real custody battle. Valerie Bertinelli plays a recent mother who becomes involved in a lesbian relationship that prompts her mother (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek custody of the child. This was on TV here in the UK today. Bach: "Truth has a price. The passionate love story that escalated to murder is making headlines once again. This was a good depiction of a true horror story of bigotry (a view of a straight male). If we are to believe that only heterosexual couples should have a family, then are we going to ignore the abuse that many children suffer at the hands of so called normal parents. At Christmas, Maggie gives Jody a heart-shaped pendant and they share a hurried kiss. CAPTION: A lesbian (Valerie Bertinelli) battles her mother (Vanessa Redgrave) for custody of her child (Adam Rehman), in a movie based on the Virginia case. Sunday's film is discreet. (The movie is based on the Virginia custody I believed America to be a democratic society fighting for freedom, yet this film which is a true story, fills me with horror, that firstly a mother should have custody of her daughters baby just because she is gay. How can a mother do such thing to her own daughter only because she loves another woman? According to the movie, Virginia is just choked to the rafters with people who know with absolute certainty what's natural and what isn't. And Werner takes pains to concentrate on the most blameless victim of all in the case, the little boy. A grandmother sues her own daughter for custody of her grandson Zachary, because she believes that her daughter's homosexuality renders her unfit for motherhood. Slow, silly and cockamamie in an unappetizing way, "Dark Skies" ranks as one of the worst new series of the season. Function: _error_handler, File: /home/ah0ejbmyowku/public_html/application/views/page/index.php Because the natural mother was living with another woman. This fact-based TV movie takes place in Richmond, Virginia, the home of single mother Jody Shaffell. mother and a more stable person once she settles into the relationship with Assistant to whom or to what? Born Today Most Popular Celebs Most Popular Celebs Celebrity News. It is hard to accept society has not advanced to accept things without reference to religious considerations. Walker is easily gorgeous enough -- spookily gorgeous enough -- to be a Hitchcock heroine. This is, for the first half, a great relationship movie if you can ever catch it on cable or some other medium. Instead of concentrating on what she was intending to promote, Bertinelli became engaged in the previous debate and criticized the views of the religious representative. At least that's what happens in the film, at 8 tonight on Channel 4. Jody Ann Shaffell is a Cisgender Homosexual character played by Valerie Bertinelli on Two Mothers for Zachary | Clichs: Parent But when her little son Zachary is born, her bigoted, vile-excuse-for-a-mother Nancy Shaffell takes her to court to sue for full custody of the child, citing that a lesbian household is not a suitable environment to . The Russkis didn't get him; those darn aliens did! And Zachary was so sweet. I think sharon done the right thing and fought for her son, but if Kay Bottoms ever put her grandsons feelings first and thought of the emotional stress that he would go through then she would've let sharon be a mom and she would have seen that being gay/lesbian isn't a disease it's how god made her and if she even wanted sharon to be happy and be a great mom she would have sat her down and spoke to her like any other NORMAL PERSON!!!! My heart goes out to this mother who has suffered intolerable abuse not only from her own mother but that of her own countrymen. This is the best film I have ever seen. physical relationship, an area the 1978 film scrupulously avoided. this country today - or at least about the way a network thinks they are. Marc Forster directs the comedy-drama based on the novel by Fredrik Backman. At the Valu-Mart where she gets a job, Jody meets Maggie. People should think before they procreate, children are not samples to be tested, nor a middle to use as a tool for fighting. Comparing the two tells us much about the way lesbians are perceived in Cast . However, a Virginia court grants custody of the boy to Nancy and now Jody is desperate to regain her son. When her mother challenges her, it unleashes her Co-starring Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Cameron Britton. But once we changed her name to Jody Ann Shaffell, it became much easier to see myself playing this role. else's eyes. If I Can't Have You: The Jodi Arias Story premieres on discovery+ for streaming Friday, February 12. If this is what it is like to be hated, then keep hating!" George-Reiss, Steven Next up, take a listen to any one of these 32 bingeable true crime podcasts. Nancy (Redgrave) disapproves of her daughter, Jody Ann's (Bertinelli) lesbianism and resolves to seek custody of her grandson, Zachary. Chalmer: James Gammon. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Im afraid for her life: Riverside CC womens coach harassed after Title IX suit, Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected, Want to solve climate change? This movie literally made me want to throw things, and by the end, I was crying in desperation at how sad Zachary sounded, and shaking my head when the verdict was said. It's one of the unfortunate legacies of "The X-Files," which this show baldly imitates: The mood must be kept as gloomy and dreary and as ferociously pretentious as possible. in a state where the law considers a lesbian relationship evidence of We see very few cases where justice actually prevails. Appalled by the Not putting a child through that back and forth to where she can't even have the child at all, I found that other disgusting and ridiculous. Someone please let me know what happened in real life? In fact, the 1978 film gave plenty of weight to the opposing point of view, Nancy (Redgrave) disapproves of her daughter, Jody Ann's (Bertinelli) lesbianism and resolves to seek custody of her grandson, Zachary. This was shown on channel 5 in england on 5/9/03 and channel 5 not normally being a very good channel i was going to skip this movie, even though it sounded quite 'interesting'. Can anybody tell me what happened with Jody Ann Shaffell's case (or the true life story that this was based on anyway)? Walsh), who was with Powers when he came out of the Soviet Union. Unaccountably luring the talents of Vanessa Redgrave, this pallid account, based on recent events, of a lesbian mothers fight for custody of her child in Virginia courts is almost astonishing in its boring plainness. Adaptation of EL James's erotic bestseller. In 2015, Nurmi authored a book about his experience working Arias' case, called Trapped With Ms. Arias. A homophobic judge arranges for Zachary to be taken out of Jody's gay relationship with her female lover, Jody's mother Nancy (Vanessa a mother fighting for custody of her young son while living in a lesbian I have seen this film a thousand times, and i love it! military. Even if you don't already know the outcome of this, you are bound to get fired up! But compensation is not storytelling--and the real story that this teleplay has adapted must have been more riveting than this. the way he did in "A Few Good Men.". Valerie Bertinelli plays a recent mother who becomes involved in a lesbian relationship that prompts her mother (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek custody of the child. This fact-based TV movie takes place in Richmond, Virginia, the home of single mother Jody Shaffell. We're not just roommates." battle between Sharon Bottoms and her mother, Kay Bottoms.). Cantankerous and alone, widower Otto (Tom Hanks) spends his days critiquing his bemused neighbors, rarely holding back his scathing opinions. Here's why today is 'the most depressing day' of the year. Bach, meanwhile, carries around an alien trinket that when let free looks something like a holographic hankie. she was gay and promptly cleaning herself up; nor is Nancy depicted Community. streaming Two Mothers for Zachary? took a giant step toward promoting better understanding of alternative Watchlist. Martinez was disbarred in July 2020 in light of allegations that he had leaked information to a member of the media he was having an affair with, communicated with a dismissed juror and engaged in sexual misconduct. Now Streaming Watch Now. Appalled by the fact that Jody has come out of the closet and is living in an openly gay relationship with her female lover, Jody's mother Nancy sues to gain custody of her grandson Zachary. Valerie Bertinelli is surprisingly good as a woman who falls in love with another woman, for the first time, and doesn't have the usual stereotypical reaction to it--freaking out. Then in October 2019, Arias tried to appeal again, this time citing "cumulative misconduct" by prosecutor Juan Martinez. Maggie Fergus: If you have any change left over, could you get me a cherry slushy? ``A Question of Love.''. I think what Kay Bottoms done was AWFUL and she should've been happy that her daughter was happy with someone she loves whether its a woman or a man. ", "Profiler" is not so much a crime series as a thoroughly unnecessary ordeal. There are no TV airings over the next 14 days. I felt she should have told her girlfriend I love you! divorced mom Jody Ann Shaffell (Bertinelli) as she fights to prove her fitness Jodi Arias is perhaps one of the most notorious women in contemporary true crime. Bach: "You said you wanted the truth, and the truth is down there, third door on the right." Still, over the years, many have speculated that Arias may suffer from some kind of personality or mental disorder. According to the script by Linda Voorhees, Jody's mother takes a particularly active interest in the rearing of her grandson to make amends for her own failures as wife and mother. Unlike the other film, this one shares more of the relationship between the two women. Molly Kilcoin, What She Doesn't Know (also known as Shades of Gray and For I Have Sinned), NBC, 1992. Jody-Anne Maxwell, born 1986 in Kingston, Jamaica, was the 1998 Scripps National Spelling Bee winner at the age 12. Nancy (Redgrave) disapproves of her daughter, Jody Ann's (Bertinelli) lesbianism and resolves to seek custody of her grandson, Zachary. However, a Virginia court grants custody of the boy to Nancy and now Jody is desperate to regain her son. However, a Virginia court grants custody of the boy to Nancy and now Jody is desperate to regain her son. The movies first, insurmountable hurdle is making us believe that Redgrave is the mother of Valerie Bertinelli, and that theyre both a step above Southern white trash. There is not enough words to explain how sick I feel only thinking about Zach's grandmother and uncle. Because the only thing that matters is that the child is raised in a loving family with parents who take good care of them, and it doesn't matter if the parents are heterosexuals or homosexuals. However, a Virginia court grants custody of the boy to Nancy and now Jody is desperate to regain her son. and Flynn are openly affectionate; Rowlands and Alexander barely touched in The nominal hero is a baby-faced bureaucrat named John Loengard (Eric Close), who stumbles onto the dastardly plot soon after his arrival in Washington in 1961 as "an assistant on Capitol Hill." And still later he adds, "A lot of people have trouble digesting the truth. 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It is more relevant than ever today, with Congress trying to pass a Constitutional Amendment, not only stating that some relationships are more valid than others, but making it so that no one can even be allowed to think otherwise! Otto then finds unexpected kinship with the members of the family that turns the tide in his lonely life. As bad as it seems, the real case is worse. To public knowledge, Arias has never been clinically diagnosed with any illnesses of any kind. motherhood, having supped full of booze and promiscuity before realizing A big old pile of caramelized onions, some bell peppers, like, all the works.". Why should gay parents be put under pressure for wanting a family. I mean Jesus Homosexuality has been around since the start of time, some of the worlds famous actors/actresses and artists were gay/lesbian.there was Dusty Springfield, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Elton John.Jesus Christ even Marie Antoinette, James I, Julius Caesar, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelangelo, and Leonardo Da Vinci!!!! Jody says she's always been waiting for a "Sir Lancelot" to rescue her, and Maggie says she's always waited for a "Lady Guinevere." And you should. Also the fact that her mother was given custody of Zachary, even though she had testified in court that she had known her own daughter was being molested from the age of 12, is that moral?. All the way through I simply could not believe that time and again such decisions were made purely on the basis of the judge's homophobic bias. 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