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Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
Searching for the truth, Lizzie Borden, a young kind school teacher is accused of the murder of her father and stepmother, stands a trial and does her best, in order to prove her innocence and find the true murderer.
4 August 1951, Dobie, Ontario, Canada
3 February 1947, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
1942, Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England, UK
January 27, 2014
The lack of focus, and a protagonist who seemingly can't decide which movie she's in, makes this Lifetime movie a slick but unsatisfying swing and a miss.
January 20, 2014
Christina Ricci does a haunting turn as notorious hatchet swinger Lizzie Borden.
January 24, 2014
Lizzie Borden takes an ax to many assumptions -- including the one that Lifetime movies aren't worth watching.
January 27, 2014
Lifetime has a knack for attracting top-tier talent for what often ends up being silly little movies, but Lizzie Borden seemed different -- everyone was having a lot of fun without getting too over-the-top campy.
April 08, 2014
There's a too-quick and convenient wrap-up to the film, but that's the only real sour note Lizzie Borden Took an Ax hits.
May 04, 2014
Included are the trial and all the trimmings. What's missing is the horror of the event. Except for a few shots of dear old daddy's caved-in face, there's not much gore, even for a TV movie.
January 27, 2014
The movie ends on such a note as to cause the audience to wonder how long it will take before "A," of Pretty Little Liars fame, starts leaving Lizzie Borden an incriminating text or two.
January 30, 2014
Brutal murders, courtroom drama in historical drama.
January 27, 2014
It's slow and heavy-handed, tedious almost throughout. An average episode of Oxygen's Snapped isn't this dull, and has more interesting things to say about women who kill.
January 21, 2014
Lizzie comes across more as a whiny, moody teen than a psychotic murderess, and Ricci is much-too-attractive to play the dowdy, crazy-eyed Lizzie familiar from those faded black-and-white photos (just sayin').
January 27, 2014
The movie itself apparently isn't sure the murders themselves are lurid enough. So it adds a few things that didn't happen, plus some 21st-century music.
May 05, 2014
Lifetime's made-for-TV movie Lizzie Borden Took an Axe covers the events of the murder and ensuing trial, but doesn't really get any deeper into the crime than the schoolyard chant does.