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Gwennie B asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 1 decade ago

Lifetime Movie About The Mother W/ Nude Pictures Of Her Kids- Accused Of Abuse?

Argh, I can't remember or find it via Google but I know somebody here will know what I'm talking about. She had some pictures of her kids naked and when another mother found out, they freaked. I'm sure it's based on a true story.

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    Snap Decision (2001 TV movie)

    IMDb review:

    Mare Winningham is Jennifer Bradley, a Cincinatti Internet website designer and mother of three~7-year-old Lauren (Amy Zell), 4-year-old Sophie (Alex Gaistman), and toddler Luke (Alexander Cameron Drogemuller)~whose Chicago friend, Carrie Dixon (Felicity Huffman), takes photographs of as they innocently play semi-naked. However, the photo lab that develops Carrie's pictures sends the contact sheet and negatives to the police, fearing child abuse and child pornography. The mother's anger at the situation is expressed in hushed tones when she is initially questioned, and controlled emotional anger when she says, "Shame on you!" to the prosecutors for the way they have cropped the photos to distort their intent. Winningham's face changes from crushed sadness to a smile in closeup when she sees Lauren looking at her, lowers her head in shameful disappointment when her lawyer Steve Godwin (Ron Sarosiak) tells her of the negative reaction of a focus group to the photos, and captures our empathy when she cries, "My babies!" at the idea of life without her children. The teleplay by Ara Watson and Sam Blackwell, based on a story inspired by real events by Randy Sue Coburn, presents a tale of injustice since we are witness to the behavior that created the photographs, including how some of them were actually taken by Lauren. Jennifer is also such an earth mother that the idea of her being duplicitous is inexplicable; she even stops Godwin from cross-examining prosecution witness Sara Hawkins (Megan Fahlenbock), who is also in the photos, because Sara is pregnant. However, Carrie's character retains some doubt. Having Carrie a cancer survivor is presumably meant to make her a fighter, but, as it is, the cancer only attaches a level of illness to her. Jennifer also recognizes that the question of innocence is irrelevant once the tag "pornography" has been projected onto images, and the drive to prosecute Jennifer and Carrie is motored by the far creepier Cincinatti Detective John Collins (Chelcie Ross).

    Sorry for the length, but this is such a good review, covering the subject and characters and including the actors' names.

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