CBS’s two-part miniseries was based on the true story of Randy Weaver ( Randy Quaid ), a White separatist who had a multi-day standoff with the federal officials that resulted in the deaths of his wife Vicki (Dern) and others in 1992. Ladd had a small role as Vicki’s mom.

She later received nominations for Wild at Heart (1990), where she played a fierce and villainous mother, and Rambling Rose (1991), where she starred alongside