Living a Lie (1991)

Way out west its a moral dilemma for Jill Eikenberry Her character manicurist Joanne Johnson is the kind of woman who stands by her man She and her husband Matt Coyote have held their marriage and family together even though times on their small Southwestern ranch have been tough One night Matt and a couple of his buddies get drunk in a local saloon before heading home Theyre also stewing in antiHispanic racial resentment Matt is having a hard time making a living and has just had to sell off the last chunk of his inherited ranch property to a family named Martinez The tragic result of their meanspirited horseplay is a small Mexican church burned to the ground two young people critically injured and three men tangled up in fear loathing and lies Joanne senses the awful truth way ahead of her spiteful narrowminded pals down at the local beauty parlor and she sets out to do the right thing