Based on the true story of Toni Jo Henry, the film tells about a woman who tried for the crime of murder in 1942 in the state of Louisiana. She is Toni Jo, a product of childhood abuse and neglect. Due to her beauty, she becomes famous and pays attention of two murder.
Part period drama, part courtroom drama and part sermon, it's a film that never gives itself much of a chance to hit its narrative stride.
Baret News
August 14, 2015
Jaime King lights up the screen as an empathetic femme fatale in a compelling costume drama painstakingly-recreating events surrounding a real-life murder trial unfolding in Louisiana back in 1940.
Los Angeles Times
August 06, 2015
A plodding feature that makes ample use of the legal record as well as evocative Shreveport locations while leaving the well of affecting drama untapped.
