What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. Certainly a forgettable movie within Franco and Hill's growing filmographies.Edgar Award Finalist: The “sensational” true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).Ĭandy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. Like I said, everything found here was too calm for its own good, there was no huge reveal or anything like that to make this movie interesting. So while the trailer might look appealing, just now that it's quite deceptive (just like the main theme of the movie).

The character of Longo was never creepy enough to carry the movie (Hopkins had 13 minutes of screen time in Silence of the Lambs and created a truly frightening monster). It was difficult to see a monster, he may look scruffy but down under there was no beast to be found here. The acting was decent enough, a strong cast, but the camera work tries to force the creepy persona of James Franco down our throats with a ton of close of shots of his face. True Story is a straightforward crime drama that finishes as a courtroom drama. But nothing ever comes of it, at least nothing interesting or thought provoking. The story in itself is quite interesting, a murder taking on the identity of a writer which leads to the two interacting and trying to determine the motive behind such a weird act. Everything here felt like 'the calm before the storm' but when it came time for the storm, there was nothing there.

There were far too few surprises to speak of, which the movie seemed to be moving toward.

It's a crime/mystery 'thriller' (labeling this a thriller is questionable) that plays out just as you would expect. Sadly, there is not much to say about True Story.

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