Small Sacrifices (1989)
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Based on the factual book by Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices was original telecast in two parts. Farrah Fawcett continues to successfully obliterate the Charlie's Angels onus in the role of real-life US postal worker Diane Downs. Part One of the film was set in Willamete Valley, Oregon, in 1983. Mrs.… More Based on the factual book by Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices was original telecast in two parts. Farrah Fawcett continues to successfully obliterate the Charlie's Angels onus in the role of real-life US postal worker Diane Downs. Part One of the film was set in Willamete Valley, Oregon, in 1983. Mrs. Downs drives her three children to the local hospital's emergency entrance: one child is already dead, and the other two have been seriously wounded. Diane claims that the killer was a man who'd tried to steal her car. But in Part Two, prosecutor John Shea rips apart Diane's story in court. What comes to surface is a tawdry tale of a neurotic, narcissistic woman who is pushed over the edge when spurned by her lover (played by Ms. Fawcett's offscreen companion Ryan O'Neal). As difficult as Small Sacrifices was to watch during its initial telecast in November 1989, it has since been rendered doubly disturbing by the more recent tragic events surrounding South Carolina housewife Susan Smith. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- David Greene
- Genres
- Drama, Television
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 12, 1989 Wide
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Cast
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Julie RitterLinda Bond
as Reporter #2
- Tom Butler
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Gary Chalk
as Boyd Paul Downs
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Gordon Clapp
as Detective Doug Welch
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Farrah Fawcett
as Diane Downs
- Ken James
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Sean McCann
as Diane's Father
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Maxine Miller
as Diane's Mother
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Ryan O'Neal
as Lew Lewiston
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Bob Roitblat
as Reporter
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John Shea
as Frank Koziak
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Emily Perkins
as Karen Downs
