Life with Billy (1994)

Original title

Life With Billy

Directed by

Paul Donovan

Genre

crime, thriller, tv movie

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG-13

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman shoots and kills her common-law husband while he sleeps. The film follows her police investigation and trial with flashbacks that show the years of domestic abuse she endured.

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What happens

Life with Billy is a 1993 Canadian television film based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Brian Vallée. The film was nominated for five Gemini Awards, and won three. The film begins with Jane Hurshman (Beatty) shooting her common-law husband Billy Stafford (McHattie) in his sleep, and then shows the resulting police investigation and trial, interspersed with flashbacks showing the domestic abuse that Stafford inflicted on Hurshman over the course of their relationship for 5 years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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