Barred Wives
Clip 3: For better and for worst
2 min 15 sec
Taken from the documentary Barred Wives (1993)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
This clip contains descriptions of violence.
Curator’s clip description
On home video, we see Ann and Jim exchange vows as they wed in prison in 1991. Jim expresses his love for his wife. Interviewed two years later, Jim describes how, upon release from prison, he killed her with a hammer.
Curator’s notes
In the film, we hear that when he killed Ann, Jim had only been out of prison a few days, and had started drinking immediately on release.
Damien Parer, curator
have teachers’ notes.
