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The casting was WAY OFF. It's incredibly hard to believe the 43 year age gap when the original characters are supposed to be 27 and 70. The waitress was played by someone who is 50 years old and the man is played by someone who 63. They don't look 43 years apart, they look like a perfect couple. Casting was way off.

It's an entertaining low budget movie, but I wouldn't watch it again.

As others have pointed out, the casting of actors is insane based upon their real life ages.

I wonder why the actress playing the part of "Becky", the male lead's daughter...looks at least the same age as him? It's utterly bizarre!

Julie Benz does a good job of playing such a scheming monster...totally different from her "sweet as sugar pie" role in the excellent drama "Dexter". She plays the part like a pantomime protagonist. In real life, no-one would ever get away with such sneaky, show-off behaviour but once you remember it's one of these "Lifetime" type movies, you know you're not going to see nuanced performances.

Julie Benz shines as Celeste, a single mom who's a waitress with 2 kids who wants a better life for herself and them. Enter Steve Beard, a millionaire regular at the bar who falls hard for Celeste, ties the knot with her and ends up being shot in his own mansion. Did Celeste kill him? This one is not as predictable as some movies and a supporting Canadian cast makes this one worth a watch. Definitely recommend!!!

Please Lifetime learn how law enforcement agencies conduct murders. Evidence is not placed in plastic bags.

Murder scenes don't have everyone sitting in the crime scene contaming evidence. Investigations 101. Please have the writers goggle on how to Investigate a crime.

Suspects or persons of interest interest are not all interviewed at once.

Please I could go on and on. Please get it right.

It is a cheap-series-like movie, where every act looks fake and not well done. Even the story and directing are not good at all. Don't waste your time and watch something else.

Julie Benz is perfectly cast as the black widow Celeste Beard who marries (for money) a millionaire named Steven Beard a man 39 years older than herself. Celeste brings to the new marriage her twin teenage daughters and quickly goes through Steven Beards fortune spending foolishly and extravagantly.

They remained married for four (4) years until Steven was shot in the stomach in his own bed only to survive for another four (4) months before succumbing to a blood clot and dying. As the investigation into Steven Beard's death is unraveled it becomes quite clear his death was an attempted murder to which one of Celeste's roommates Tracey Tarlton, while both were residing in a mental health facility (Celeste was suffering from depression and suicidal tendencies) admits to shooting Steven Beard as she was madly in love with Celeste.

This made for TV film passes the smell test on the back of the believable acting of Julie Benz who can best be remembered as Rita Morgan the love interest of revenge serial killer Dexter (2006-2010).

Well worth watching. I give it a highly deserving 8 out of 10 IMDB rating.

This is a docudrama. Julie Benz plays Christine Beard, the gold digger who marries multimillionaire Steven Beard, played by Eli Gabay.

I saw this case profiled on another network. I saw the real people in this case. I wish LMN had stuck to some of the details. Celeste's two girls are 17 year old twins. Roan Curtis (Kristina) is about twenty five years old at the time of this movie. Georgia Bradner (Jennifer) is about twenty seven years old. Neither of them look even close to seventeen years old. Surely they could have found actors who look close to the ages of the characters they play. Julie Benz at almost 50 years old, is almost believable in the role of a 32 year old. But her real age shows quite often. However, you can kind of understand that she would look older than her biological age. She's a woman who has gone through many men, many marriages and plenty of hard times.

If I erase these details from my mind, the movie is entertaining.

I tried a number of times to make it through to the end of the film. I just couldn't do it. It is horrendous, the acting, the storyline... everything!

It is flawed in countless ways and its such a shame that the writer and director did not tidy all the details up.

I believe watching this film is the equivalent of self-harm and any person who makes it to the end of the film then should consider contacting their location doctor's surgery for medication.

I have wrote down the names of the main actors and stuck them to the wall above my TV. This is just to make sure that I never fall foul to watching something that they have appeared in again.

In Austin, wealthy Steven Beard is shot in his home. Four years earlier, he meets single mom and waitress Celeste (Julie Benz). He would later marry her. She loves spending his money and he showers her with gifts until it goes overboard. He threatens divorce and she threatens suicide. In rehab, she seduces and recruits fellow patient Tracey Tarlton to do a little killing.

This is based on the true crime story of Celeste Beard Johnson. There is a large age difference which isn't here in the movie. Julie Benz is going crazy, but everybody else is totally bland. This is a bland movie-of-the-week. There is no tension. The structure saps away the intensity. They could have spiced it up to fictionalize it as a pulpy lesbian killer thriller. This is nothing.

Julie Benz is terrific as Celeste Beard, a very evil woman. Hard to believe this story is true but it REALLY IS. A compelling and entertaining film. Great score and songs.

I'm very picky about movies and am usually very critical of most LMN flicks - especially the endless dime-a-dozen "Wrong" and "Psycho" ones - but as I've written here before: Lifetime does true crime very well.

I had seen this case covered on Dateline a few years ago, so the names Celeste Beard and Tracey Tarleton rang a bell, and this movie stuck pretty close to the actual facts of the case. It was very well-acted by the entire cast, especially the front-and-center lead character played by Julie Benz. I remember her in the 'Dexter' series years ago playing a (fictional) character the exact opposite of Celeste.

Yet another riveting twisted true tale of greed, lust, and cold-blooded murder at which LMN seems to excel, for some reason...

Grade B - 8 out of 10.

I don't know why viewers would give this a low rating. Acting is excellent. Julie Benz does a fantastic job, as do all the other characters. Perhaps I found this film so compelling because i know a woman who has behaved much like Celeste Beard. It happens, probably more than people realize.