It was good to see Luke MacFarlane playing against type and doing a great job at it. He also did another film in a similar vein.
Eli Weaver is unhappy in his marriage to his wife Barb, and so is she. However, they can't get out of the marriage without being shunned. So, if Eli is a widower that makes it a lot easier to keep the life he's always known
Eli is played as very charismatic and charming as the real life Weaver must have been. With the help of a secret phone, he is able to run his store in the Amish community and play house with other women. One such woman is Barbara Raber who works as a taxi lady for the community.
Barbara Weaver knows he is being unfaithful and tries to find a way out with her religious community but they fail her too. She must submit to her terrible husband
Raber and Weaver are caught being intimate in his hunting store and later Eli convinces Raber to murder his wife while he's out fishing. She does so and later both are charged with Mrs. Weaver's murder. Weaver and Raber are sentenced 15 and 23 years to life respectively, and eligible for parole in 2024 and 2032.
The film is well done, and you get at sense of how life in this community is even if you haven't watched other docs on closed communities like this one. This one makes me feel like a fly on the wall.
Eli Weaver is unhappy in his marriage to his wife Barb, and so is she. However, they can't get out of the marriage without being shunned. So, if Eli is a widower that makes it a lot easier to keep the life he's always known
Eli is played as very charismatic and charming as the real life Weaver must have been. With the help of a secret phone, he is able to run his store in the Amish community and play house with other women. One such woman is Barbara Raber who works as a taxi lady for the community.
Barbara Weaver knows he is being unfaithful and tries to find a way out with her religious community but they fail her too. She must submit to her terrible husband
Raber and Weaver are caught being intimate in his hunting store and later Eli convinces Raber to murder his wife while he's out fishing. She does so and later both are charged with Mrs. Weaver's murder. Weaver and Raber are sentenced 15 and 23 years to life respectively, and eligible for parole in 2024 and 2032.
The film is well done, and you get at sense of how life in this community is even if you haven't watched other docs on closed communities like this one. This one makes me feel like a fly on the wall.