A Little Thing Called Murder

This true-crime biopic explores the life of mother-and-son grifters Sante and Kenny Kimes, from Kenny's childhood apprenticeship in early-'80s Honolulu to Sante's murder trial in late-'90s New York City. Fortyish Sante Kimes (Judy Davis) uses her looks and her brazen disregard for the law to acquire ...more

A gloriously atypical Lifetime TV movie, this true-crime biopic gives master thespian Judy Davis another chance (following The Reagans and Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows) to overpower the small screen and go more than a little over the top. Davis' Sante Kimes is an amoral, delightfully tawdry monster who enslaves the help, enlists the criminal assistance of her school-aged son, and browbeats her common-law husband into enduring no end of bad behavior. That she's also a fraud, a thief, ...more