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CrimeYear2020Duration1h 30mIMDb5.9

Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer

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When Chris Watts stoically yet smirkingly pleaded to television cameras for the safe return of his missing pregnant wife Shanann and their two young daughters, dark secrets loomed just beneath the surface.

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Cast

Michael Nankin

Director

Ashley Williams

Shanann Watts

Brooke Smith

Tammy Lee

April Telek

Amber

Chloe Van Landschoot

Nicole Kessinger

Reid Price

Officer #2

Sean Kleier

Chris Watts

Dan Willmott

Eddy Watts (Dad)

Nola Augustson

Sandy

Taylor Olson

James

SD

Samuel Davison

Amber's Son

Joshua Young

Phil

Sean Skerry

Officer Coonrad

Kristopher Anderson

Waiter (Thrive)

Dahlia Oldham

Bella Watts

Allison Basha

Angela

EM

Ellie McPhee

Ceecee Watts

JM

Junior Moaku

Police Officer

DB

Don Bottomley

Line cook

Barbara Marshall

Writer

Comments

10 Comments

MrcashtimeMay 29, 2023

♥෴♡☬ AMMU DINA ☬♡෴♥May 29, 2023

source: Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer

Stervann OkouoMay 23, 2023

I rather liked the movie tried to get the facts and re-enactments close to what happened I think but of course it's so sad about what happened to this beautiful family may they rest in peace

Depi😍😍May 23, 2023

Some reviewers have missed the point of this film. It isn't entertainment so much as an historical document following the actual timeline closely and without gratuitous violence. If one serious criticism can be made of it, it is that it was produced with indecent haste, but this is hardly the first time American cinema/TV has done something like this. The TV film "Amanda Knox" was released less than four years after that infamous murder in Perugia and while legal proceeding were ongoing. As Watts confessed and there is no suggestion of either another suspect or a belated claim of insanity, the legal proceedings are at an end in this case. "I'm not a monster" he says in the police interrogation room. You strangled your heavily pregnant wife then murdered your two beautiful young daughters, then blamed their murders on the first victim, then instead of doing the decent thing and ending your own life, you disposed of their bodies like pieces of rubbish. If you aren't a monster, who is?

Kofi KinaataMay 23, 2023

What truthseeker4life said Amen .......... .............. .. .. . . .

Yeng ConstantinoMay 23, 2023

I get sick of this. Obviously this guy's a vile disgusting excuse for humanity. The true story is the wife was a nightmare beast from hell. It would be a reasonable flick had they not whitewashed her into being an angel. Typical of the fascists running production these days.

THEREALNAOBABE 👑May 23, 2023

Not quite sure who this movie is for. If you've followed the case closely, you will know far more than anything they showed in this movie. It doesn't add anything and pretty much reenacts information that you could get from countless documentaries and real life footage to which no movie could ever compare or plainly recreates them. What is the point of recreating an actual footage? You literally can go and watch the real thing. If it was for people who didn't know anything about the case, you're thrown into the end of the case and there is no mystery and no backstory. I'm sure that the only reason I cared about the characters was because I watched and read so much about this case. You know from the first seconds that there is a dead family and the husband is the perpetrator so you won't get sucked into the story. I guess I only watched it because I was curious how did they recreated the actual murder but again, if you have strong nerves, there is police interrogation tapes in which Chris is recalling every single gruesome detail which will send chills down your spine. As for production and actors, I really have no opinion. They did a good job for what they were hired to do. The main lead looks and acts like the person he portrays, same can be said about the actress that plays Shan'aan. Overall my main complain is that the movie is completely pointless as there is so much actual footage that the movie adds absolutely nothing to the story. It doesn't explore psychology of the characters at all. Just recreates things we already know and even that they screwed up in some parts.. I'll give it 2/10 because the actors were actually good.

CleopatrabobbMay 23, 2023

Where can i watch this? I don't know how to work this app apparently

oluwaseunayo❤️May 23, 2023

This Lifetime film serves one purpose only and that is to illustrate how one man who was a husband, a father and an adulterer committed four (4) heinous murders. If the actual four (4) murders was not enough Chris Watts disposed of his entire families bodies as if they were garbage by burying them where he believed they never would be found. But like most adulterers and criminals, their cumulative lies to the people and family that surround them, the truth is rather easy to put the puzzle together for any good detectives. I understand why most people would not consider this Lifetime film to be "entertaining" as any father who would commit such heinous acts should automatically be put to death, no "Ifs", "Ands", or "Buts". This film rather satisfies the urge to understand how "any man" could murder his entire family and curiosity how he did it and in his mind the one question that needs to be answered is "WHY?" I will let the medical professionals and forensic criminal investigators provide us with that answer another day, but for now, I was satisfied to know the families bodies (what was left of them) were recovered a few days after their reported disappearance. Chris watts admitted to burying his pregnant wife and daughters at the place of his employment at Anadarko Petroleum, on August 16. He was fired on August 15, the day of his arrest. The girls' bodies were found hidden in oil tanks. Shanann and the unborn Nico were buried in a shallow grave nearby. As this is only a ninety (90) minute movie we really should not expect to glean too much factual information into the head of the murderer Chris Watts, but I would have preferred if the producers would have depicted this devil of a man as being soulless without a conscience, and instead the film almost normalizes these murders as just another entertaining made for TV film. I give it an IMDB rating of 6 out of 10 as it did answer some basic questions that were lingering about the Watts family murders.

DzidzorMay 23, 2023

The entire setup is from a man's perspective. Leading us to suspect the vitamins he was taking, this poor husband who's wife doted on him, doing everything to make him look like a good father, adequate husband and all round normal guy, were responsible for his actions. This guy killed his wife and children. There are women lining up to be his new wife. Does anyone see anything wrong with this? It's like a serial killer taking out a want add for body needed. Stop feeding this narcissistic, child killer's ego and have some respect for her family and friends. I marked this as no spoilers, saying it's not worth the money...isn't technically "spoiling" anything, is it?

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