Ricci didn't play a very good Liz B. Did you think her acting was good?

The actress, who played Emma should be in the mini-series.

Thanks, for telling about the mini-series because I think it will be interesting to see how everything plays out AFTER this horrific story happened.

"It's a good thing!"--Martha Stewart

I actually liked the music, but my complaint is that the music doesn't belong in this particular movie because it takes away from the seriousness of the movie.

Someone mentioned they liked the music because it reminded them of "Marie Antoinette," BUT that movie was also kinda of a satirical/comedic movie in parts that didn't take itself as seriously like this movie did.

I believe they should've have made music that was appropriate for this particular time period like using classical music, for example, which would've given a better effect to the movie.

I liked the movie. There were some parts that could've been better, but they did a good job of expanding the movie to make it longer than an hour.

I haven't seen the orig. one with Liz Montgomery, but I want to! It's available on DVD. 

"It's a good thing!"--Martha Stewart

Ricci was good in it, I agree. I don't think the problem was with the casting, it was with the writing.

I didn't object to Ricci playing a rail-thin Lizzie, when the real Lizzie was on the plump side. That would have been fine had the part been written believably. There is something about Ricci's face and eyes that's reminiscent of Lizzie, and she did do a good job of the script she'd been given, as did almost everyone else.

The mistake of having Ricci displaying far too much emotion wasn't hers; it was again the fault of the poor writing. You're right, one of the fascinating things about Lizzie -- the real Lizzie, and as she was written and acted in The Legend of Lizzie Borden -- was that she, inexplicably, displayed little to no emotion. After she "discovered" her father, and during the trial. But here we had a Lizzie who poured buckets of tears, evoking no mystery.

I did think Ricci looked younger than the real Lizzie, and didn't know she was 2 years older than at the time of the crime, but that didn't bother me.

Andrew Borden was well cast and well acted, but again suffered from the writing.

Abby was as poorly written as Lizzie. While the actress looked nothing like the real Abby, I could forgive that if she had been well written. As it was, she was shown here as very 2-dimensional, which is a shame because in reality she was a somewhat pathetic, very unhappy, and pitiable person.