Thomas Capano has power, influence, and money. Anne Marie Fahey has a desperate need to escape. From Ann Rule, "the queen of the true-crime genre" (Philadelphia Inquirer), comes the shocking true story of a love that turns... more » to cruel obsession, and the perfect man who a turns a woman?s life into the perfect nightmare. Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie is a cautionary tale of love, innocence, and family, perverted by an uncontrollable obsession.« less
"ann rule's and never let her go is a brilliant true crime masterpiece. this is the chilling story of tom capano....a rich, brilliant in law, charming and evil in his manpulation.
mark harmon gives a tour de force performance this is better than deliberate stranger. i love this performance of a man so evil. let me tell you how evil this guy is....he is very controlling. he lies to everyone women he see. he will lie to get to the one girl that didnt want him. he makes his lover buy the murder weapon so that he wouldnt be caught in a gun shop. he uses his brothers construction business to dump the body and has a freaky side to his madness if you know what i mean. these are just some of the evil that tom capano has done. watching mark harmon is amazing and this is a must have for your dvd collection
this is not your typical lifetime movie. this is a masterpiece. mark deserves an emmy for this performance."
The Evil that Men Do
TundraVision | o/~ from the Land of Sky Blue Waters o/~ | 01/20/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This Made-for-TV movie has a runtime of 3 hrs 20 minutes. This reviewer and regular Ann Rule reader thinks that is not long enough.
Adam Greenman's teleplay adaptation of Ms Rule's True Crime book And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer, leaves out a lot and might leave the non-reader watcher befuddled and confused. For example, the torrid tawdry Capano/Christine affair is barely hinted, although it was a focal point of the trial and fodder for the tabloids.
In contrast to the teleplay writer's wrongful redactions, the Casting Director is to be commended. Pre-Naval Intelligence Mark Harmon is perfect as the slimy Thomas Capano; Kathryn Morris is not a Cold Case as victim Anne Marie Fahey, who narrates a la Brenda Strong's Mary Alice Young Desperate Housewives - The Complete First Season; Rachel Ward, she of ill-starred romance (The Thorn Birds) is a cool Christine; and Momma Moonstruck (Deluxe Edition) is a magnificent matriarch for the Capano clan.
So read the book this week, then, this weekend, make a nice cozy fire and settle in to watch a wicked good movie.
/TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer
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If you love Mark...
Jennifer T. Conner | Kinston, NC USA | 12/03/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"If you love Mark Harmon you really need to watch this. If Tom Capano was anything like Mark I would have fallen for his lies too. This is a heartbreaking true story of a young woman who falls for the wrong man, and unfortunately in this case the cost was her life.
Mark is marvelous as usual the perfect mix of charm and terror. If you are prone to tears this may be a tough watch but I think it is definetly worth your time. I just feel so awful for the real Ann's poor family!!! I can't imagine what they had to endure."
Great movie
Hollywood | 11/30/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I love this movie. I watch everytime they show it on Lifetime, and I'm so glad that I found it on dvd. It's really worth buying if you like made-for-tv movies and especially if you like Anne Rule movies."
Is he really guilty?
Edie Peterson | Roswell, Ga | 04/05/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Mark Harmon does a masterful job of portraying Tom Capano, a politically powerful Wilmington attorney involved in simultaneous love affairs. I was so impressed and intrigued by the movie, I had to read the book. And I'm still not sure Tom Capano did it. Capano is depicted by Ann Rule as an obsessive planner with daily sheets of how he will spend his day broken down into 15 minute increments. How could he spontaneously murder someone? And if he had planned the murder, why would he murder her in his own home? And how could the dress she was wearing at dinner be found in her own apartment, neatly laid out on her bed without a bloodstain on it? And what about the fruit in her kitchen left to spoil? I'm sure Capano got rid of the body, but did he kill her?"