“Lizzie” is coming to a movie theater near you this September

Did you know the Craig William Macneill directed “Lizzie” will hit American movie theater screens on Friday, 14 Sept. 2018?

If you are familiar with the skipping-rope folk rhyme, you’ll know the basic premise of the film:

Lizzie Borden took an axe

And gave her mother forty whacks.

When she saw what she had done,

She gave her father forty-one.

With a screenplay written by Bryce Kass, the Macnell directed film is a psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.

In 1892, Lizzie was a 32-year-old single woman that local society had shunned because of her unmarried status.

Andrew Borden (Jamey Sheridan), Lizzie’s father, was a controlling austere person that dominated every aspect of his daughter’s life.

When Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart) joins the Borden household as a maid, Lizzie finds in the new household staff member a kindred spirit she could confide in. Further, an intimate relationship between the two women quickly blossoms into a deviously wicked plan that culminates with an unsettling end.

Cast in the title role is Massachusetts born actress Chloë Sevigny. Sevigny, having previously worked on the 2016 Whit Stillman written and directed romantic dramedy “Love & Friendship,” is no stranger to period productions.

Playing the title character in “Lizzie” will require Sevigny to explore the darkness associated with both matricide and patricide.

Born in Massachusetts on Thursday, 19 July 1860, the real-life Lizzie Andrew Borden stunned millions of Americans when she took an axe to Borden family members.

Further to Sevigny, “Lizzie” also stars Stewart, Kim Dickens, Fiona Shaw, Denis O’Hare and Sheridan.

If you are familiar with Jeff Russo’s work, considering he composed the music for the popular online series “Star Trek: Discovery,” you might be surprised to learn this is the composer that created the music for this production.

Russo also worked on television series such as “Altered Carbon,” “Waco,” “Lucifer,” “Counterpart” and “Power.” “Lizzie” is a refreshing change of pace for the composer.

Even though the film is scheduled for release in these United States Friday, 14 Sept. 2018, “Lizzie” had its world premiere on Friday, 19 Jan. 2018 at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

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Shain E. Thomas, M.Sc.

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