![]() The case stalls as the lead investigator Lt. In 1984 Kentucky, Delores and her daughter Janie are gunned down by an unknown assailant in their home. Meanwhile, a court rules that Susie must allow Tom access to their children, and an exasperated Susie blames Delores for all her woes. Klenner dies from a heart attack, the authorities force Fritz to shut down his father's medical practice because it turns out Fritz had been lying about attending medical school. Their relationship is discovered by Susie's parents who are appalled, and as a result, Susie and her sons move in with Fritz. Susie finds a confidant in Fritz and they begin an incestuous relationship. At the same time, Susie and her sons begin taking large doses of vitamin pills and injections as prescribed by Fritz. Claiming to have secret government intel, Fritz convinces Susie that Tom is involved in the mafia, and an increasingly paranoid Susie vows to keep Tom away from her children. Klenner's son and her first cousin, a gun-obsessed survivalist who masquerades as a medical student and CIA agent. Susie is also reacquainted with Fritz, Dr. Fred Klenner, a practitioner of quack medicine, who diagnoses her with multiple sclerosis. The divorce takes a toll on Susie's health and she consults her uncle Dr. An embittered Susie refuses to let him see their children thus kicking off a custody battle. Tom moves on with his new girlfriend Kathy. Susie decides to leave Tom, taking her sons with her and moving back to her parents' home in Winston-Salem. As John's tantrums worsen, the couple take him to see a therapist who suggests he is acting out because of their constant fighting. Susie's growing frustrations leads her to punish John harshly when he misbehaves, including spanking him and drenching him in cold water flashbacks show Susie's mother doing the same to her when she was young. ![]() Their marriage is falling apart as Susie hates Albuquerque and is unaccustomed to living on a tight budget. Years go by, the couple now have two young sons, John and Jimmy, and live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Tom is trying to build up a dental practice. Despite his mother's, Delores, disapproval, Tom and Susie get married in a lavish ceremony in Susie's hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Tom is a dental student while Susie is a spoiled Southern belle from a prominent North Carolinian family. In 1970 Louisville, Kentucky, Tom Leary takes his fiancée Susie Sharp Newsom home to meet his parents. It was subsequently released on home video in Europe under the title Bitter Blood. Still, critics found positive aspects in Bleckner's direction and the strong cast. The miniseries received mostly unfavorable reviews, with particular condemnation for its gratuitous violence and sensationalism. The episodes were watched by 21.3 and 23.9 million total viewers respectively, putting both episodes in the top 20 most-watched programs for their respective broadcast weeks. In the Best of Families first aired on CBS in two parts on January 16 and 18, 1994. The miniseries was shot under the working title Bitter Blood in Wilmington, North Carolina, in late 1993. ![]() Hamlin and Carradine were both drawn to the project by Freedman's script, and both actors were also keen to take on characters that were a departure from their previous roles. Eager to play an antagonistic character, McGillis believed Susie suffered from some form of psychosis and prepared for the role by researching mental disorders. Television networks were apprehensive about the grisly ending in Bledsoe's book, which sees two children violently killed, and the miniseries ended up softening the original ending. The true crime story stars Kelly McGillis and Harry Hamlin as Susie and Fritz, a couple who, as a result of a custody battle between Susie and her ex-husband Tom (played by Keith Carradine), carry out a series of murders across North Carolina and Kentucky in the 1980s.īitter Blood is the second of Bledsoe's true crime books to be adapted by Freedman for the screen, following Blood Games which was adapted into the 1992 television film Honor Thy Mother. Freedman, based on the 1988 non-fiction book Bitter Blood by Jerry Bledsoe. ![]() In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness is a two-part American television miniseries directed by Jeff Bleckner and written by Robert L.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |