
WOULD YOU KILL FOR ME? THE MARY BAILEY STORY (2023 Lifetime)
premiereS OCTOBER 28th 8/7c on Lifetime
📺. Stream/Watch the Trailer: COMING SOON
Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Presley Allard
Synopsis (Via Lifetime)
Told through three different perspectives, Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Story follows the volatile relationship between three generations of women – Ella (Melissa Joan Hart), her daughter Veronica (Olivia Scriven), and her granddaughter Mary (Presley Allard) whom she raises for Veronica. After Veronica becomes deeply entangled with Willard (Connor McMahon) and later marries him, the lives of all three women take a turn for the worse when Willard becomes increasingly abusive. Veronica suffers a deep betrayal when her best friend Susan (Celina “Spookyboo” Myers), becomes pregnant with Willard’s child, further complicating their toxic relationship, leaving Ella, Mary and her half-brother Sammy at the mercy of Willard’s alcoholic rampages. The family fears for their lives, culminating in one horrific night when Willard is shot dead…but the identity of who pulled the trigger is not revealed till the very end.
The Mary Bailey Story, based on the real-life experiences of Mary Elizabeth Bailey, author of “My Mother’s Soldier,” whom at 11 years-old, was forced to do the unthinkable.
Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Story is a Mb Ontario Film, Inc. and MB Quebec Film Inc production, in association with Johnson Production Group, Inc. Brendan McNeill and Steve Boisvert serve as producers. Executive Producers include Timothy O. Johnson, Stacy Mandelberg, Pierre David, Roxanne Boisvert and Melissa Joan Hart. Simone Stock directs the screenplay from Gregg McBride, based on the book, “My Mother’s Soldier,” by Mary Elizabeth Bailey who also serves as a consultant on the film.
My Thoughts
MJH is an automatic Pour it up! (I actually prefer her dramatic work to her comedy.)
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