"Woman with a Past" is a great life story about a person - a mother - who turned their life around against all odds. She grew up in Virginia in poverty, marrying an abusive husband. Of course, the marriage deteriorated and somehow she had to save her children after her estranged husband took her children and escaped to another state. It was the only way that he could settle the score with his wife, but the children would pay until the mother turned her life around, "Sure", not a lot of shooting, killing and such going on in this movie. It's about life, and how it's ours to make for our choosing. You can learn something from a movie like this, and that it's never too late to give up on life as long as you're still living.