When Women Kill

[Available March 16 via streaming on MUBI.] Lee Grant narrates her informative, fascinating, poignant, 51-minute, 1983 documentary that consists of interviews with an eclectic group of women prisoners, including nurse Virginia who killed her abusive husband, housewife Violet who also murdered her combative husband, clarinet student Frannie who killed a fellow musician over drugs, Judy who killed a jeweler during a robbery, runway Leslie Van Houten who killed another woman as part of Charles Manson's cult, and a lifelong criminal, to discuss what prompted them to murder and consists of commentary by prison steward Linda E. Cherry and chaplain Father James T. Gorman, and attorney Patricia Nelson.
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