Wife #19—if that is the Lifetime Channel movie I think it is, it’s pap. Pure sugarcoating. It shows SOME of the problems, but most are just glossed over.
Carolyn Jessop's memoir Escape will be adapted for the big screen, with Katherine Heigl attached to star and produce, Variety reports.
Jessop, whose testimony helped convict polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, "was born into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sect.
At 18 she married a man 32 years her senior; at 35, she fled with her eight children."
Probably is. I never saw it. I did read the book though, it made some good points but the whole gay storyline was trash.