Once You Meet a Stranger (1996)
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Filmed for television, Once You Meet a Stranger is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, using the same Patricia Highsmith novel as its source but transforming the protagonists into females. A chance meeting brings together former child star Sheila Gaines (Jacqueline Bisset) and the deceptively charming social butterfly Margo Anthony (Theresa Russell). As the ladies converse, two major facts come to light: Sheila is saddled with an ex-husband who refuses to give him a divorce, while Margo despises her wealthy mother and wishes her dead. In what seems to be a playful hypothesis, Margo suggests that she and Sheila "trade murders"; she will kill Sheila's former husband, Sheila will do in Margo's mom, and the authorities won't be any the wiser. Figuring that Margo is a harmless eccentric at best and a nutcase at worse, Sheila laughs off the notion of such an "arrangement"--but she isn't laughing when her troublesome ex-hubby turns up dead! If you've seen Strangers on a Train, you know how this one turns out, so best to find another way to spend 95 minutes. Once You Meet a Stranger originally aired September 25, 1996 on CBS. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Jacqueline Bisset - Sheila Gaines
- Richard Doyle - Mr. Anthony
- Celeste Holm - Clara
- Nick Mancuso
- Theresa Russell - Margo Anthony
- Gretchen Wyler - Mrs. Anthony
- Ann Gee Byrd - Judge Lea Cole
- Robert Desiderio - Andy Stahl
- Peter Haskell
- Mimi Kennedy - Connie
- Hansford Rowe - Mr. Anderson
- Neil Vipond - Mr. Cunningham
- Andi Chapman - Lt. Donna Hagerty
- Sheila Kay - Lolly
- Director(s):
- Tommy Lee Wallace
- Writer(s):
- Czenzi Ormonde, Whitfield Cook
- Producer(s):
- Philip L. Parslow, Tom Fortuna
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