Burning Bed!!!

The Burning Bed is a 1984 American television crime drama film directed by Robert Greenwald and starring Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie, and James Callahan. Adapted by Rose Leiman Goldemberg from the 1980 non-fiction novel of the same name by Faith McNulty, it follows battered housewife Francine Hughes and her trial for the murder of her abusive ex-husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes. Francine set fire to the bed her husband was sleeping in at their Dansville, Michigan, home on March 9, 1977, after thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at his hands.