Product: The 19th Wife (2010)
Rating: 4.0
FEEL GOOD ANTI-POLYGAMY MOVIE
The story centers on polygamy as practiced illegally today in small towns in Utah. A man is killed and wife #19 is blamed as all the evidence points against her. Her estranged son returns to the town and attempts to solve the murder, which his mother claims she did not commit. He is helped by Queenie, a female friend he knew until he was banished for touching her arm. Queenie is married to the town cop. There is also Sarah #5, a fifteen year old run away whose mother was one of the many wives of the victim. She ran away the day of the murder. The movie is set up as a who-dun-it but doesn't give you a lot of suspects.Queenie has in her possession a banned book from the 19th century called "The 19the Wife" a story on how polygamy and religion imprisons women. As she reads from the book we get a glimpse of early Mormon life.The movie has a made for TV after school feel, down to where you would put the commercial breaks. The acting was good, the ending was not exactly what I expected. Kudos.