LIZZIE BORDEN, HEIRESS OF PATRICIDE AND NURSERY RHYME FAME, LIVES AGAIN IN A MOVIE STARRING CHLOË SEVIGNY. THEY BOTH, IT TURNS OUT, HAVE A FEW AXES TO GRIND.
Lizzie Borden isn’t who you think she is. More than 100 years after the August afternoon in Fall River, Massachusetts, when Borden’s father, the bank president Andrew Borden, and stepmother Abby Borden were brutally murdered with an ax—a crime for which Lizzie was arrested and eventually acquitted—no one is still quite sure what happened. Of course, that hasn’t slowed down generations of rumor and speculation, or the proliferation of a particularly garish nursery rhyme (“Lizzie Borden took an ax…”). Indeed, because nobody knows exactly what happened in the Borden house that day, anything could have happened—and that’s precisely why the story has been the subject of so much chatter, not to mention a ballet, an opera, and now the movie Lizzie.
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