Lies My Mother Told Me

Lies My Mother Told Me is a 2005 Canadian television movie that aired on Lifetime in the United States. Christian Duguay directed a cast that included Joely Richardson as Laren, Hayden Panettiere as Haylei, Colm Feore as Lucas, and Kailin See as Kristin. He was nominated for the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series. The teleplay by Matt Dorff is loosely based on the true story of Elisa McNabney, who murdered her husband with the help of college student Sarah Dutra and fled to Florida, where she eventually was caught. Two weeks later, she hanged herself in her... jail cell while awaiting extradition to California. In Dorff's adaptation of the facts, Laren Sims is a single mother living in Destin, North Carolina with her parents and young daughter Haylei. Unable to afford Christmas presents, she pays with a stolen credit card, eventually is caught, and is sentenced to 90 days in a maximum security prison. Rather than return to prison when she is found stealing a second time, she goes on the lam with her daughter in a car she steals when she leaves a stolen credit card as security with the dealer while allegedly taking it for a test drive.
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