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
Based onAt Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal
by Jonathan Coleman
Teleplay byRichard DeLong Adams
Directed byMichael Tuchner
StarringE.G. Marshall
Stefanie Powers
Doug McKeon
Theme music composerCharles Gross
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersBob Markell
Christopher Morgan
CinematographyLarry Pizer
EditorGary Griffin
Running time240 minutes
Production companiesIncorporated Television Company
Vista Organization
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseJanuary 4 (1987-01-04) –
January 6, 1987 (1987-01-06)

Plot summary

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

Frances has done many bad 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 her ejecting him from her home if he didn't commit the murder, as she had already ejected her older son (firstborn of her three children), Larry, from her home just for getting a 3.7 grade point average when she decided that nothing less than 4.0 was good enough for her and at one time threatened to commit her daughter to a psychiatric facility just for not being able to say the definition of a sentence as starting with a capital letter.

Cast

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Production

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

References

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  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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