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Death in Small Doses (1995 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Death in Small Doses' is a 1995 American true crime television film directed by Sondra Locke and written by Scott Swanton. It is a dramatization of the 1991 death of wealthy architect Nancy Lyon by arsenic poisoning in Dallas, Texas. The film premiered on ABC on January 16, 1995. It was originally scheduled to premiere on January 23, 1994, but was postponed by the network due to the overabundance of similar films at the time.
Cast
* Richard Thomas as Richard Lyon
* Tess Harper as Asst. D.A. Jerri Sims
* Glynnis O'Connor as Nancy Lyon
* Shawn Elliot as Det. Ortega
* Gary Frank as Bill Dillard Jr.
* Matthew Posey as Guthrie
* Ann Hearn
* Caroline Dollar as Allison
* Evan Wood as Anna
Production
'Death in Small Doses' was filmed over 18 days in North Carolina in February 1993.
Critical reception
'Variety's Ray Loynd found it difficult to warm up to the lead characters, noting that "it's a deficiency that mars an otherwise suspenseful yarn." The 'Sun-Sentinel's Tom Jicha wrote that 'Death in Small Doses' proves "fact-based movies can be provocative and gripping without being exploitive and titillating." John Koch of 'The Boston Globe' was very critical of Locke's direction, writing that she "makes a jumble of what might have been a fairly suspenseful, if all-too-familiar, network based-upon."
Ratings
'Death in Small Doses' earned a 11.0 national Nielsen rating, where each ratings point represents 954,000 households, making it the 40th-highest-rated prime time program for the week of January 16 to 22, 1995.
References
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