I thought I was going to watch a period drama & be taken back to the good old days. Usually movies involving widows are loving, caring, sweet, positive stories. I enjoy films depicting the days of yester-year, old ladies & churches in small towns. This is about two widows who ruin a small town & everyone in it. This is a story of a widow who moves into a small town & sets her plan of revenge in motion. She works in cahoots with another widow, Mia Farrow. Mia plays a Widow who had given a baby up for adaption. The new widow in town is her baby all grown up but nobody knows it. The two widows start their "play" immediately. It's a play about getting revenge on all the old ladies in the town because they had helped the widow out when she was alone & pregnant by figuring out how to put the baby up for adoption & set her up in a house where she could survive alone without a man or a job. Instead of being grateful she searches for
her baby & finally finds her a full grown woman. They both plan to blackmail the ladies. It's an awful disgusting story that made me feel sick to my stomach. They fool everyone in the town. The last scenes are of their attorney telling a widow to give large sums of money up or suffer horrible gossip spread thru the town. The black mail works & they milk the widows for all they're worth. The last scene shows the two all dressed up, mia has a silver tiara in her hair, eating in a fancy restaurant discussing how well their plan worked. Depressing movie.
Review of Widows' Peak
