Product Details

• Actors: Dean Cain, Sarah Joy Brown, David Denman, Dee Wallace
• Directors: Roger Young
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Thai
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: June 8, 2004
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001Z3HWC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,910 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Perfect Husband - The Laci Peterson Story" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Prepare to go behind the scenes of one of the nation s most tragic and inexplicable murders. By all appearances Scott and Laci Peterson were the perfect couple - until Christmas Eve 2002 when 28-year-old Laci went missing while walking her dog. After an agonizing almost four-month search her body and that of her unborn child were found in the Richmond marina at Point Isabel. As the investigation and the media frenzy came to a shocking head Scott was arrested for the homicide. Now as the nation stands in wait and Scott stands accused The Perfect Husband tracks the events leading up to Laci s disappearance and death through the people who knew them best.System Requirements:Running Time: 84 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396051720 Manufacturer No: 05172

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, Could Have Been Better, October 18, 2005

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J. McAndrew "Jeffrey C. McAndrew" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Husband - The Laci Peterson Story (DVD)

Dean Cain was very good in his role of Scott Peterson, portraying his selfishness, his neurotic sense of self-control and his sociopathic disregard for his wife Laci.

I think the movie could have been stronger in several ways. the character of Laci could have been developed to a greater degree giving the viewers more of a feel for the full tragedy of her death. Laci's parents also lacked a completeness. They were too dumbed down for the lowest common denominator TV watchers.

Amber Frey's portrayal was good, but I wish they would have shown more about how she and Scott first met and how he managed to never mention his wife. Peterson was portrayed very well as a slimey manipulator with more love of his orgasms than other people who get in the ways of his plans.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Based on a true story, April 9, 2005

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Elizabeth W. Johnson "mommy too" (Salem OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Husband - The Laci Peterson Story (DVD)

Some of the facts were a little off. And Amber could have been cast better. The most powerful performance was of course Dean Cain. And a close second was played by Lacys Blond best friend. I started crying when she had to explain to her husband that she saw Amy go into the house with the police to search for the clothes Lacy was wearing the night of the haircut. "This is specific Tommy, Those clothes are in the bay with her" HEAVY

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars broad, choppy, yet interesting take on a very important case, June 7, 2006

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MollyRK (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Perfect Husband - The Laci Peterson Story (DVD)

My curiosity and heightening interest in the Laci Peterson case finally compelled me to rent this film. Having become heavily focused on all aspects of the case from the time I read Sharon Rocha's recent heart-tugger "For Laci," I was very interested in seeing the film that was formulated and inspired by Amber Frey's quickly released book "Witness."

My opinions on the performance of Dean Cain clearly will not differ from those of anyone else's on this site; he did a remarkable job at hitting it right on the nail. His eyes, his mannerisms, his behavior...it was all amazingly on target. In his interviews and conversations with others about Laci, Scott Peterson has been known for using "uh" and "um" more than actual words from the English language in order to bridge the gap between concocting his lies and actually saying them. The way he has stared into space and babbled aimlessly to the extent that he sometimes actually forgot the question he was initially asked speaks volumes in itself, and Dean Cain did a perfect job at re-enacting that.

As for the film focusing predominantly on Scott, his behavior and his two "composite" friends Tommy and Kate, I think what we have to understand here is that this movie was made just as Scott was arrested and taken to trial. That was a point in the case where everything started crashing down, and of course everyone wanted to get as much emphasis as they could on how Scott Peterson was reacting to everything surrounding his wife's disappearance, as well as the discovery of Laci and Conner's bodies. At that time, everyone really needed and wanted to see what Scott's present role was in all of this, and I think that was the portrait this movie tried to convey.

Granted, the movie was made much too early, but such is to be expected with cases like this--people are always eager to spawn a TV movie as quickly as possible. The scenes were choppy and seemed to end really abruptly. It was a quick-paced, 86-minute TV film that lacked emotion and close examination of Laci's family and friends, who deserve to have their perspective acknowledged.

All in all, though, it was a good enough film for what it was: a quick, informative story that wanted to lay out some facts and shed some light on Scott's overall demeanor. Even if some of the information was a bit scattered and wayward, they did a good job at zooming in on Scott and revisiting some of the word-to-word conversations that he had with police, Amber, friends, and members of Laci's family.

It is a truly gripping story, unforgettable and worthy of a fuller portrait (similar to the book that Laci's mother Sharon wrote earlier this year). Given a few more years (or maybe a lot more years), I think this will make a terrific movie, providing more complete details and a well-rounded pursuit of the feelings and emotions experienced by everyone involved. It's a case with very raw human emotions that America has really gravitated to, and it is really a startling moment from history that people will remember for decades to come. A future movie could include areas about Scott and Laci's courtship, marriage, and life before December 24, 2002. So much has been documented about Scott, his mistress Amber Frey, and the charges he has faced, but it would be nice to get even more on sweet Laci--the innocent victim who was mere weeks away from delivering her first child when an indescribable crime took it all away from her. Discussing all these details would surely make an excellent film that I would watch without hesitation, and I have no doubt that it will eventually happen.