At Mother's Request

At Mother's Request is a 1987 two-part television miniseries based on a true story (the Franklin Bradshaw murder). The movie stars E.G. Marshall and Stefanie Powers.

At Mother's Request
Genre	Drama
Based on	At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal by Jonathan Coleman
Teleplay by	Richard DeLong Adams
Directed by	Michael Tuchner
Starring	E.G. Marshall Stefanie Powers Doug McKeon
Theme music composer	Charles Gross
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Bob Markell Christopher Morgan
Cinematography	Larry Pizer
Editor	Gary Griffin
Running time	240 minutes
Production companies	Incorporated Television Company Vista Organization
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	January 4 (1987-01-04) – January 6, 1987 (1987-01-06)

Plot summary

Frances Schreuder is a mother who is mean to her sons and sometimes her only daughter, especially when she imagines that they're not living up to what she expects them to be as her children. Greedy and selfish, she decides she wants her inheritance from her rich, multimillionaire-although miserly-father, auto parts and oil industrialist Franklin Bradshaw.

Frances has done many bad things to get what she wants. For example, she has forged some of her father's checks to get things she wants and had her sons steal money from him when they were visiting him the summer before his death. She eventually decides she wants her money right away, especially when she finds he drew up a new, although unofficial, will that specifically left her and her children out of it. Frances manipulates her son Marc into murdering her father under the fear of her ejecting him from her home if he didn't commit the murder, as she had already ejected her older son (firstborn of her three children), Larry, from her home just for getting a 3.7 grade point average when she decided that nothing less than 4.0 was good enough for her and at one time threatened to commit her daughter to a psychiatric facility just for not being able to say the definition of a sentence as starting with a capital letter.

Cast

• E.G. Marshall as Franklin Bradshaw
• Stefanie Powers as Frances Schreuder
• Doug McKeon as Marc Schreuder
• Jenna von Oÿ as Ashley Schreuder
• Corey Parker as Larry Schreuder
• Frances Lee McCain as Lois Turner
• Terry O'Quinn as Jeol Campbell
• Ray Baker as Michael George
• Frances Sternhagen as Berenice Bradshaw
• Martin Donovan as Detective Rogen
• George Sullivan as Detective Voyles
• Roberts Blossom as Doug Steele
• Chris Noth as Steve Klein
• Dan Lauria as Myles Manning
• Louis Borgenicht as Stanley Turner
• Nancy Borgenicht as Nancy Jones
• Jasmine Guy as Bank Teller

Production

Parts of the miniseries were shot in Salt Lake City, Utah.^[1]