Latest News Update About The 19th Wife: The 19th Wife is a Lifetime original movie based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff. It is the story of a murder in a Morman community and the issue of polygamy is the backdrop. Chyler Leigh, Patricia Wettig and Matt Czuchry head up an impressive cast that brings life and credence to this fascinating story of murder and faith.
A murder starts the story with a woman being accused of murdering her husband. BeckyLyn (Wettig) was the nineteenth wife of polygamist Sawyer Scott (Karl Pruner). He had one child by BeckyLyn and his name is Jordan (Czuchry). When he was a teenager Jordan was excommunicated from the faith and sent to live on his on in the secular world.
Jordan’s best friend from childhood is Queenie (Leigh) who still lives in the community with her husband Hiram (Jeff Hephner) and their small daughter. Queenie notifies Jordan of his mother’s arrest and asks him to come and help her. He does come back to the community but he does so reluctantly.
It looks like we’re all going to have to retire the phrase “Lifetime movie” used as a way of knocking any soapy, female demographic-pandering film we hate.
There was a time not that long ago when I would rather watch one of those live surgery specials on PBS than the hokum Lifetime served up on a regular basis — cheapo so-called movies that always seened to “star” some faded TV actress as a wife being grieviously mistreated by a borderline psychotic husband.
Making matters worse was Lifetime’s habit of devoting whole weekends to endless repeats of their latest bomb.
Lately, Lifetime fare has been steadily improving. Last month the network presented the smart and compelling “Bond of Silence” with Kim Raver. Tonight at 9 p.m. Lifetime is unveiling a really well-acted and well-written drama, “The 19th Wife,” about a murder in a radical Mormon community that still embraces polygamy (the film is based on a novel by David Ebershoff).
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