Winter of Frozen Dreams
DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2009-05-05Genre: Thriller
Sub-genre: Drama
Director: Eric Mandelbaum
Stars: Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, Brendan Sexton III, Leo Fitzpatrick, Dean Winters, Dan Moran, Colleen Camp, Tony Cucci, Scott Cohen, Adam Ferrara, Derek Cecil, Tom O'Rourke
MPAA Rating: R
Synopsis: A brutally bludgeoned body buried naked in the snow.
Thus begins Winter of Frozen Dreams, a sordid love story and a macabre web of blackmail, lust, and deceit. The Hoffman case was the first televised murder trial in US history.
The true-life story of Barbara Hoffman, is complex and contradictory in every sense, she was both a brilliant biochemistry student at the University of Wisconsin and Madison's most notorious prostitute.
On a frigid, twenty-two below zero Christmas morning, Barbara Hoffman's (Thora Birch) distraught young fiancé, Jerry Davies (Brendan Sexton III) lead police investigators to a corpse, which only hours before, he had buried in a snow bank. Lead by Detective Lulling (Academy Award® winner Keith Carradine), the police investigators uncover the naked and brutally bludgeoned body of Harry Berge. Davies desperately insists that he is not a murderer and that he and Hoffman are guilty only of burying the corpse of a stranger.
Shades of film noir blend with true crime, as Barbara Hoffman lives out her days in prison, refusing to give interviews or even go before the parole board. Source: VideoETA.com
Thus begins Winter of Frozen Dreams, a sordid love story and a macabre web of blackmail, lust, and deceit. The Hoffman case was the first televised murder trial in US history.
The true-life story of Barbara Hoffman, is complex and contradictory in every sense, she was both a brilliant biochemistry student at the University of Wisconsin and Madison's most notorious prostitute.
On a frigid, twenty-two below zero Christmas morning, Barbara Hoffman's (Thora Birch) distraught young fiancé, Jerry Davies (Brendan Sexton III) lead police investigators to a corpse, which only hours before, he had buried in a snow bank. Lead by Detective Lulling (Academy Award® winner Keith Carradine), the police investigators uncover the naked and brutally bludgeoned body of Harry Berge. Davies desperately insists that he is not a murderer and that he and Hoffman are guilty only of burying the corpse of a stranger.
Shades of film noir blend with true crime, as Barbara Hoffman lives out her days in prison, refusing to give interviews or even go before the parole board. Source: VideoETA.com
