Napoleon Chagnon

The Burning Bed" tells the story of Francine Hughes, a woman form a small town in Michigan, who after having just been beaten by her ex-husband, James “Mickey” Hughes, poured gasoline around the bed that he was passed out drunk in and set him on fire. The film recounts their tumultuous marriage and the years of abuse that Francine suffered before feeling that murder was the only option to save herself and her children. Detailing more than 12 years of abuse in the Hughes household as well as…