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Life with Billy (film)

Life with Billy
Written by Brian Vallée (book)
John Frizzell
Judith Thompson
Directed by Paul Donovan
Starring Stephen McHattie
Nancy Beatty
Ted Dykstra
Matthew Ferguson
Theme music composer Marty Simon
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Michael Donovan
Eric Jordan
Alan MacGillivray
David M. York
Release
Original network Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Original release 1994

Life with Billy is a 1994 Canadian television film based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Brian Vallée. The film was nominated for five Gemini Awards, and won three.

The film begins with Jane Hurshman (Beatty) shooting her common-law husband Billy Stafford (McHattie) in his sleep, and then shows the resulting police investigation and trial, interspersed with flashbacks showing the domestic abuse that Stafford inflicted on Hurshman over the course of their relationship.



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