Rep. Brown suggests Lifetime viewing

Rep. Corrine Brown's (D-Fla.) recommended viewing this weekend a Lifetime movie featuring a character named Rep. Corrine Brown.

This weekend, watch "Left to Die" on Lifetime. It tells the story of an American woman I helped free from prison in Ecuador. An actress...

— Corrine Brown (@RepCorrineBrown) January 16, 2013

Brown tweeted the suggestion on Wednesday, telling her Twitter followers that the movie "tells the story of an American woman I helped free from prison in Ecuador." 

The Lifetime Movie Network will air the made-for-TV film "Left to Die" on Friday, according to The Florida Times-Union. The movie is a fictionalized version of the true story of Sandra Chase, an American woman jailed on false drug trafficking charges during a vacation trip to Ecuador in 1995. Brown aided in her eventual release in 1997.

Brown is portrayed in the film by actress Charlene Hyatt. It also stars Emmy-winning actress Barbara Hershey as the wrongly imprisoned American and Rachael Leigh Cook as her daughter.

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