Payback (1997)
- Starring:
- Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, (more)
- Director(s):
- Dennis Nemec, Ken Cameron, (more)
Synopsis of Payback
Mary Tyler Moore is reunited with her onetime sitcom costar Edward Asner in this anything-but-funny TV movie melodrama. While closing down her restaurant late one night, Kathryn Stanfill (Moore) notices a prowler hanging around outside. She quickly summons the police, only to stand by in horror as one of the cops, a loose cannon named Brian Kaleen (Frederick Lehne), brutally and without provocation beats the prowler within an inch of his life. Jack Patkanis (Asner), the police department's Internal Affairs investigator, has long suspected that there have been a few rotten apples like Kaleen on the force, and urges Kathryn to report the beating. Suspended from the force, the psychotic Kaleen methodically mounts a campaign of revenge, using his police-department and political connections to financially destroy Kathryn's husband (Dennis Arndt) and frame her son (Adam Scott) on a murder charge. Payback was first telecast by ABC on February 10, 1997. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Payback
- Mary Tyler Moore - Kathryn Stanfill
- Fredric Lane - Sgt. Brian Kaleen
- Denis Arndt - Neil Stanfill
- John Moskoff
- Kate Asner
- Mario de Priest - Pachard
- Michelle Guthrie - Corrine
- Victor Morris - Kovacs
- Tobias Andersen - Dean
- Rick Mullins - Drummond
- Jeanne Sanders - Marilyn Parrish
- Ed Asner - Jack Patkanis
- Adam Scott - Adam Stanfill
- Marty Ryan - Lewis
- Tamara Clatterbuck
- Jerry Basham - Gary
- Russ Fast - Mr. Shaw
- Fredric Lehne - Sgt. Brian Kaleen
- Beverly Sanders - Barbara
- Patrick de Santis - Agnone
- Cheryl Hansen - Jennings
- Director(s):
- Dennis Nemec, Ken Cameron
- Writer(s):
- Dennis Nemec
- Producer(s):
- Ed Asner, Ann Kindberg, Chris Kobin
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