Suburban Madness is an American crime drama television film, based on a true story of the Murder of David Lynn Harris, starring Sela Ward as PI Bobbi Bacha of Blue Moon Investigations. It aired on CBS on October 3, 2004.

Plot

Suburban Madness is very loosely based on the true story of 44-year-old Clara Harris, a successful Texas dentist and mother of young twins, who hired private investigator Bobbi Bacha, played by actress Sela Ward, to spy on her philandering orthodontist husband. Bobbi discovered that her husband is cheating with a new secretary at the dentist office, Lisa, who is recently separated from her husband. Lisa, who is noticeably much more attractive than Clara has no trouble capturing all of David s attention. The two fall in love. After hearing from Bobbi about her husband s cheating, Clara tries to become more appealing to David, but to no avail. In the end, David and Lisa have one final affair at a posh hotel, the hotel where Clara and David got married no less. It ends with Clara, also accompanied by her stepdaughter and David s biological daughter, bursting in and attacking Lisa and David tells her that it s over once and for all and both women leave the hotel in tears. As David walks Lisa out of the hotel, he is run over by his once loving wife.

Reception

The film received fairly negative reaction in Texas due to its loose interpretation of some facts, somewhat inaccurate and stereotypical representation of the people and the area, and use of a Canadian filming location in the northern rockies that bears almost no resemblance to the real subtropical coastal communities of Friendswood and Clear Lake City, Texas.

External links

• Suburban Madness at IMDb
• Suburban Madness at AllMovie

Year	2004
ReleaseDate	2004-10-03
RuntimeMins	120
RuntimeStr	2h
Plot	Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by repeatedly running over him with her car.
Directors	Robert Dornhelm
Writers	Skip Hollandsworth, Kimberlee Reed
Stars	Sela Ward, Elizabeth Peña, Rheagan Wallace
Produced by	Tim Christenson,Dave Mace,Neil Meron,Helen Verno,Mark Winemaker,Craig Zadan
Music by	John Altman
Cinematography by	Paul Sarossy
Film Editing by	Victor Du Bois
Production Design by	Tamara Deverell
Art Direction by	Joshu de Cartier
Set Decoration by	Zeljka Alosinac
Costume Design by	Joanne Hansen
Makeup Department	Gail Freddie Godden,Kathleen Graham,Rita Pacitto
Production Management	Lisa Kussner,Cynthia Stegner
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Patrick Arias,Matt Birman,J. Elizabeth Marsh,David McLennan,John Sauvé,Matthew Alan Taylor
Art Department	Gordon Brown,Stephen Levitt,Matthew Alan Taylor,John Todd,Jason Graham,Meaghan Lynch
Sound Department	Deb Adair,Carlos Delarios,Wayne Heitman,Michael O Corrigan,Robert Woolfson,Samuel C. Crutcher,Vincent Guisetti
Special Effects by	Tim Barraball
Camera and Electrical Department	Rod Benjamin,Stephen Butson,Philip Esteves,David Fisher,Frank Polyak,Shane Baker,David Erlichman,Ben Mark Holzberg,Edward Lipscombe,David Perkins
Casting Department	Steve Brooksbank,Megan Conacher,Tina Gerussi,Roberta Romano,Mary Jo Slater,John Villacorta
Costume and Wardrobe Department	Roslyn Hanchard
Editorial Department	Susan Vaill
Location Management	Tim Owen
Music Department	Tony Dimito
Script and Continuity Department	Daniela Saioni,R. Emerson John
Transportation Department	Frank Mizzi,Bill Boyd,Ian C. Harris
Additional Crew	Bobbi Bacha,Skip Hollandsworth,Susan R. Jones,Jimmy Myatt,Mark Nicholson,Barbara Pecs,Amy Cuthbertson,Michelle M. Robeson,Nick Talon,Tina Vacalopoulos
Genres	Drama
Companies	Sony Pictures Television, Storyline Entertainment
Countries	USA
Languages	English
ContentRating	R
ImDbRating	4.6
ImDbRatingVotes	305
Keywords	texas,private eye,dentist,lingerie slip,murder