Small Sacrifices

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Small Sacrifices is a 1989 made for TV movie based on the real life events of Diane Downs , a mother who on May 19, 1983 drove to a hospital with a gun shot wound to her arm and claimed that an unknown assailant attempted to carjack her and shot her three children. Her oldest daughter was a witness to her crime and lost her speech, her youngest son was paralysed, and her middle child, a daughter, lost her life. Based on the best selling true crime book by Ann Rule.

The film stars Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Gordon Clapp, John Shea and Emily Perkins. The film was released on cable on November 12, 1989.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie ends with Diane Downs sentenced to life in prison and her two surviving children adopted by the prosecutor who convicted their mother.

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