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Sex, Passion, Betrayal, Murder
A true story of an unlikely serial killer
A brilliant biochemistry student who is also a prostitute.
A brutally bludgeoned body buried naked in the snow.
Thus begins Winter of Frozen Dreams, a sordid love story and a macabre
web of blackmail, lust, and deceit. The Hoffman case was the first televised
murder trial in US history.
The true-life story of Barbara Hoffman, is complex and contradictory in every sense, she was both a brilliant biochemistry student at the University of Wisconsin and Madison's most notorious prostitute.
On a frigid, twenty-two below zero Christmas morning, Barbara Hoffman's (Thora Birch) distraught young fiance, Jerry Davies (Brendan Sexton III) lead police investigators to a corpse, which only hours before, he had buried in a snow bank. Lead by Detective Lulling (Academy Award winner Keith Carradine), the police investigators uncover the naked and brutally bludgeoned body of Harry Berge. Davies desperately insists that he is not a murderer and that he and Hoffman are guilty only of burying the corpse of a stranger.
Shades of film noir blend with true crime, as Barbara Hoffman lives out her days in prison, refusing to give interviews or even go before the parole board.
Original Release
04/03/2009
US Release
05/05/2009
Cast
Name | Character |
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Thora Birch | Barbara Hoffman |
Keith Carradine | Detective Lulling |
Brendan Sexton III | Jerry Davies |
Leo Fitzpatrick | Detective Couture |
Dan Moran | Harry Berge |
Dean Winters | Ken Curtis |
Colleen Camp | Mrs. Davies / Jerry's Mother |
Tony Cucci | The Big Guy |
Scott Cohen | Eisenberg / Barbara's Lawyer |
Adam Ferrara | Assistant District Attorney |
Directors
Writers
Eric Mandelbaum, Karl Harter, Michael Caughill, Michael Graf, John Besmer
Cast
Name | Character |
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Thora Birch | Barbara Hoffman |
Keith Carradine | Detective Lulling |
Brendan Sexton III | Jerry Davies |
Leo Fitzpatrick | Detective Couture |
Dan Moran | Harry Berge |
Dean Winters | Ken Curtis |
Colleen Camp | Mrs. Davies / Jerry's Mother |
Tony Cucci | The Big Guy |
Scott Cohen | Eisenberg / Barbara's Lawyer |
Adam Ferrara | Assistant District Attorney |
Derek Cecil | District Attorney |
Tom O'Rourke | Medical Examiner |
Steven Randazzo | Harry's Lawyer |
Marsha Dietlein | Harry's Sister |
Jen Jones | Jerry's Neighbor |
John O'Creagh | Insurance Agent |
Aya Cash | Prostitute |
Kelly Sullivan | Pretty Woman at Party |
William Swan | Judge |
Jeff Burchfield | Jessy |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Omar Peraza | Executive Producer |
Milka Stanisic | Producer |
Millie Stanisic | Producer |
Anthony J. Vorhies | Producer |