At Mother's Request

At Mother's Request is a 1987 two-part television miniseries based on a true story (the Franklin Bradshaw murder). The movie stars E.G. Marshall and Stefanie Powers.

At Mother's Request
GenreDrama
Written byRichard DeLong Adams (teleplay)
Jonathan Coleman (novel)
Directed byMichael Tuchner
StarringE.G. Marshall
Stefanie Powers
Doug McKeon
Theme music composerCharles Gross
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersBob Markell (co-producer)
Christopher Morgan (producer)
CinematographyLarry Pizer
EditorGary Griffin
Running time240 minutes
Production companiesIncorporated Television Company
Vista Organization
DistributorCBS
Release
Original networkCBS
Picture formatColor
Audio formatMono
Original releaseJanuary 4–6, 1987

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 her expectations as what she expects them to be as her children. Greedy and selfish, she decides she wants her inheritance from her rich father, multimillionaire auto parts and oil industrialist Franklin Bradshaw.

Frances has done nefarious 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 ejecting him from her home if he didn't commit the murder.

Cast

Production

Parts of the miniseries were shot in Salt Lake City, Utah.[1]

References
  1. D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.


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