Life with Billy

*Life with Billy*
Life with Billy
	Movie poster
Genre	Drama
Based on	Life with Billy; by Brian Vallée
Screenplay by	John Frizzell; Judith Thompson
Directed by	Paul Donovan
Starring	Stephen McHattie; Nancy Beatty; Ted Dykstra; Matthew Ferguson
Theme music composer	Marty Simon
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Michael Donovan; Eric Jordan; Alan MacGillivray; David M. York
Original release
Network	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Release	1994

Life with Billy is a 1994 Canadian television film based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Brian Vallée. The film was nominated for five Gemini Awards, and won three.

The film begins with Jane Hurshman (Beatty) shooting her common-law husband Billy Stafford (McHattie) in his sleep, and then shows the resulting police investigation and trial, interspersed with flashbacks showing the domestic abuse that Stafford inflicted on Hurshman over the course of their relationship for 5 years.

Cast

Nancy Beatty as Jane Hurshman
Stephen McHattie as Billy Stafford
Deb Allen as Mandy
Glenn Wadman as Ronnie Wamboldt
Matthew Ferguson as Allan Whynot
Joadi Newcomb as Dini Harrison
Nancy Marshall as Bernice Wamboldt
Tony Quinn as Cpl. Lawson
Richard Donat as Constable Snow

Awards

Won

Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series - Paul Donovan
Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series - Stephen McHattie
Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series - Nancy Beatty

Nominations

Gemini Award for Best TV Movie - Eric Jordan & Michael Donovan
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series - John Frizzell & Judith Thompson

Read also

Vallée, Brian (1998). Life and Death with Billy. Toronto: Seal Books. ISBN 0-7704-2818-5.

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