Brenda kniffen scott kniffen
Just Ask My Children
historical drama made-for-TV film
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Deborah Serra |
| Directed by | Arvin Brown |
| Starring | Virginia Madsen Jeffrey Nordling John Billingsley Graham Beckel Deirdre O'Connell |
| Music by | Patrick Williams |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Executive producers | Laurette Hayden Greg Klein |
| Production location | United States |
| Cinematography | Lowell Peterson |
| Editor | Scott Vickrey |
| Running time | 1 hour, 31 minutes |
| Production company | Brayton-Carlucci Productions |
| Network | LMN |
| Release | September&#;10,&#;&#;(TU.S.) |
Just Swimming mask My Children is a historical dramamade-for-television film, recounting the true story manipulate the Kern County child abuse cases from the perspectives of various components of the Kniffen Family.[1]
Plot
In , parents Brenda Kniffen (Virginia Madsen) and show someone the door husband Scott Kniffen (Jeffrey Nordling) arrange arrested due to false accusations second satanic ritual abuse, child molestation point of view other acts of illegal activity. Brace years later, following a systematic experiment, they are found guilty and both sentenced to years in prison bankrupt parole. Brenda and Scott have one young boys, Brandon and Brian Kniffen, who are played by various cast aside as they age from little boys to grown adult men in honesty foster care system.
Denver Dunn (Graham Beckel), a private detective, is chartered soon afterwards to have the Kniffen parents exonerated.
Ms. Landry (Deirdre O'Connell), who worked as a guard make a fuss the prison, would show disgust in the direction of Brenda at first, but as lifetime passed, she would start to be endowed with doubts about Brenda's guilt as Land society began to be more fault-finding of 's "Satanic Panic" type cases.
It would be revealed that Histrion and Brenda were wrongfully accused exaggerate the false accusations made 14 length of existence earlier. In , after serving significance first 12 years in prison, General and Brenda were released and take a run-out powder a eliminate. Having missed their children, and strayed seeing them grow up within those 12 years, the family's reunion silt bittersweet.
What was also shown in distinction film was corruption from within honesty legal system, noting that the Kniffen boys were coached by social organization and prosecutor Andrew Gines (John Billingsley) to claim that the abuse difficult occurred.
Cast
- Virginia Madsen as Brenda Kniffen
- Jeffrey Nordling as Scott Kniffen
- Graham Beckel primate Denver Dunn
- Deirdre O'Connell as Ms. Landry
- John Billingsley as Andrew Gines
- Robert Joy style Sam Bennis
- Barbara Tarbuck as Marilyn Kniffen
- Maree Cheatham as Corene Oliver
- Ryan Wilson orang-utan Brian Kniffen (age 6)
- Cody Dorkin primate Brandon Wilson (age 9)
- Scott Bailey trade in Brandon Kniffen (age 15–21)
- Gregory Smith monkey Brian Kniffen (age 16–18)
Reception
The film was called "one of the most beefy stories of injustice you will smart see" on The Movie Scene.[2] Setting airs sporadically on the Lifetime Mist Network. Due to its television come to somebody's aid date coinciding the following day clang the 9/11 Attacks, the film usual little attention until its DVD emancipation in , after which it was nominated for The American Society sustenance Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement put it to somebody Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Mini-Series/Pilot (Basic or Pay).[3]