At Mother's Request is a 1987 two-part television miniseries based on a true story (the Franklin Bradshaw murder).
Greedy and selfish, she decides she wants her inheritance from her rich, multimillionaire-although miserly-father, auto parts and oil industrialist Franklin Bradshaw.
For example, she has forged some of her father's checks to get things she wants and had her sons steal money from him when they were visiting him the summer before his death.
She eventually decides she wants her money right away, especially when she finds he drew up a new, although unofficial, will that specifically left her and her children out of it.
Frances manipulates her son Marc into murdering her father under the fear of her ejecting him from her home if he didn't commit the murder, as she had already ejected her older son (firstborn of her three children), Larry, from her home just for getting a 3.7 grade point average when she decided that nothing less than 4.0 was good enough for her and at one time threatened to commit her daughter to a psychiatric facility just for not being able to say the definition of a sentence as starting with a capital letter.