10 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :- Excellent TV Movie: Kudos to Brendan Fletcher!, 30 January 2005
Author:
phibes012000 from The House of Good Schlock
Nancy Eaton, a department store heiress, was murdered by what should
have been one of her best friends. This very excellent film dramatizes
the events that led up to her brutal murder. Her murderer should have
been taken more seriously by the various medical establishments, and he
was not. It goes to show how a dangerously sick person was mishandled
by both the medical community and (most importantly) his parents. Alice
Krige is wonderful as Nancy's mother, but Brendan Fletcher is the real
star here as Andrew, poor Nancy's murderer. Fletcher is an
up-and-coming actor in Canada that I hope will be given more leading
roles, because quite brutally he is the real deal. He can inject terror
and cause us to feel sympathy for his character at the same time. I
just wish the guy would be given a movie with some sort of happy ending
for his character, 'cause he usually gets killed or does something
horribly tragic. No matter here: he's terrific. This film also shows
that capital punishment isn't the only solution: I'm almost certain
that if these events happened in the U.S. poor Andrew would most
certainly be on death row somewhere. Please see this movie: its making
its rounds on the Oxygen network which is the place I saw it.
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :- Loved this movie!!!!, 16 October 2005
Author:
sharynm2001 from United States
This movie was soooo good. Remarkably, I saw it accidentally. The
movie, "Deadly Friends" with Kristy Swanson from 1986 was supposed to
air, which I had already seen, so from the beginning, I knew there was
a programming error. I watched and watched and watched waiting to see
if they would say the real name of the movie, but Oxygen actually
stated on the screen, "Now, Deadly Friends." So I had to find the name
of one of the characters and google them to find out about this movie.
I was amazed and saddened to find out that is was a true story. I'm
glad I was going to watch a repeat of that awful movie, "Deadly
Friends" or I would have never seen this. As far as the death penalty
if he was in the States, I guess it depends on which state he was in.
Texas? He's a goner.
7 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :- A movie that hit home, 11 April 2005
Author:
sarah from United States
I think that more movies should be made like this. There are a lot of
people out there that have problems and they don't know it or they know
it but don't get help. and something bad happens and nothing gets done
about it except a slap on the hand because they are mental ill. this
movie really hit home for me, but in my case in turned out for the good
instead of the bad which could of happened if i did not get out of the
relationship. In Nancy's case she was just trying to be a good friend
trying to help him and it turned out for the worse because he could not
deal with the fact that she did feel the sane way about him as he felt
for her. and that lead him to kill her. it could of been a different
story if he would of got help.
Great Movie, 29 February 2008
Author:
katkeeler from Canada
I too saw this movie by accident while I was waiting for a computer
program to load...was hooked 5 minutes into and ended staying up until
3am watching it. Being Canadian I felt a little closer to it as I
vaguely remember it but grew up with the name EATON.
I only wish I could watch it again and see the beginning that I didn't
get to concentrate on.
I found it to be dark and disturbing with a certain innocence....if
that makes any sense.
The acting ranged from fair to very good with Andrew, Nancy and Nancy's
mother acting very well.
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Excellent TV Movie: Kudos to Brendan Fletcher!, 30 January 2005
Author: phibes012000 from The House of Good Schlock
Nancy Eaton, a department store heiress, was murdered by what should have been one of her best friends. This very excellent film dramatizes the events that led up to her brutal murder. Her murderer should have been taken more seriously by the various medical establishments, and he was not. It goes to show how a dangerously sick person was mishandled by both the medical community and (most importantly) his parents. Alice Krige is wonderful as Nancy's mother, but Brendan Fletcher is the real star here as Andrew, poor Nancy's murderer. Fletcher is an up-and-coming actor in Canada that I hope will be given more leading roles, because quite brutally he is the real deal. He can inject terror and cause us to feel sympathy for his character at the same time. I just wish the guy would be given a movie with some sort of happy ending for his character, 'cause he usually gets killed or does something horribly tragic. No matter here: he's terrific. This film also shows that capital punishment isn't the only solution: I'm almost certain that if these events happened in the U.S. poor Andrew would most certainly be on death row somewhere. Please see this movie: its making its rounds on the Oxygen network which is the place I saw it.
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-

Loved this movie!!!!, 16 October 2005
Author: sharynm2001 from United States
This movie was soooo good. Remarkably, I saw it accidentally. The movie, "Deadly Friends" with Kristy Swanson from 1986 was supposed to air, which I had already seen, so from the beginning, I knew there was a programming error. I watched and watched and watched waiting to see if they would say the real name of the movie, but Oxygen actually stated on the screen, "Now, Deadly Friends." So I had to find the name of one of the characters and google them to find out about this movie. I was amazed and saddened to find out that is was a true story. I'm glad I was going to watch a repeat of that awful movie, "Deadly Friends" or I would have never seen this. As far as the death penalty if he was in the States, I guess it depends on which state he was in. Texas? He's a goner.
7 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-

A movie that hit home, 11 April 2005
Author: sarah from United States
I think that more movies should be made like this. There are a lot of people out there that have problems and they don't know it or they know it but don't get help. and something bad happens and nothing gets done about it except a slap on the hand because they are mental ill. this movie really hit home for me, but in my case in turned out for the good instead of the bad which could of happened if i did not get out of the relationship. In Nancy's case she was just trying to be a good friend trying to help him and it turned out for the worse because he could not deal with the fact that she did feel the sane way about him as he felt for her. and that lead him to kill her. it could of been a different story if he would of got help.
Great Movie, 29 February 2008

Author: katkeeler from Canada
I too saw this movie by accident while I was waiting for a computer program to load...was hooked 5 minutes into and ended staying up until 3am watching it. Being Canadian I felt a little closer to it as I vaguely remember it but grew up with the name EATON.
I only wish I could watch it again and see the beginning that I didn't get to concentrate on.
I found it to be dark and disturbing with a certain innocence....if that makes any sense.
The acting ranged from fair to very good with Andrew, Nancy and Nancy's mother acting very well.
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