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The Film Club Best Seller!
Four great DVD's covering murder, death, betrayal, abuse and throughout love.
A great way to start your True Movies collection.
NAKED LIE
HE�S A JUDGE. SHE�S AN ATTORNEY.
BUT WHO�S ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LAW?
VICTORIA PRINCIPAL (Dallas) and JAMES FARENTINO (Dynasty) star in this intriguing crime thriller, in which a hot young District Attorney takes on a sensational murder case � and finds the trail of evidence leading right to her own door.
Joanne Dawson has everything that a woman could possibly want: beauty, brains, a successful career as a lawyer � and Jonathan Morris as her lover. Morris is handsome, charming and has the secure position of a prominent judge.
A sensational homicide takes place: a dead prostitute is found in a luxury hotel next to the body of an unconscious pimp, who stubbornly claims his innocence. Joanne lands the part of prosecuting attorney, with Morris as the judge.
During her investigations, Joanne stumbles cross some disturbing evidence that strikes at the heart of her personal life. It transpires that the prostitute and the pimp were blackmailing eminent men who frequented the hotel, and that one of these men is none other than her lover, Jonathan Morris.
NAKED LIE is written by TIMOTHY WURTZ (Hungry Heart), GLENN M. BENEST (Her Married Love) and JOHN ROBERT BENSINK (Victim of Beauty) and directed by RICHARD A. COLLA (When Husbands Cheat).
STRANGER IN THE FAMILY
HIS PAST HAS BEEN ERASED. NOW HE WANTS A FUTURE.
A mother must undergo an emotional odyssey when her teenaged son loses both his memory and identity in this intense drama, starring TERI GARR (Mr Mom) and NEIL PATRICK HARRIS (Doogie Howser, M.D.).
Who could have foreseen the major impact that a minor car crash would have on the Thompsons, an ordinary American family, when their teenaged son Steve sustains a �simple dose of concussion�.
Steve�s life suddenly goes into freefall as injuries deep in his brain bring on severe retrograde amnesia, effectively wiping out his memory and erasing every element of his identity.
The doctors recommend that Steve should be institutionalised as he no longer has the basic skills to look after himself, while his mother Randi (Garr) refuses to give up on her son even if he is now a stranger to his own family.
But Randi�s well-meaning efforts to restore Steve�s old life distress him to the point where he runs away to live rough, and Randi now realises that only by accepting her son as a �new� person does she have any hope of winning him back into the heart of his shattered family.
STRANGER IN THE FAMILY is written by Emmy� Award-winner RENE BALCER (Law & Order) and HAL SITOWITZ (A Friend�s Betrayal) and is directed by DONALD WRYE, double Oscar� nominee for the documentaries The Numbers Start with the River and The Impression of John Steinbeck, Writer
CHANGE OF THE HEART
HER HUSBAND HAS A LOVER�AND IT�S NOT A WOMAN.
In this intense domestic drama, double Emmy� Award-winner JEAN SMART (24, Designing Women) stars as a wife who suffers the ultimate betrayal at the hands of her supposedly heterosexual husband (played by Lost�s JOHN TERRY).
Dr Jim Marshall is the perfect all-American father and husband, and he�s respected and admired by his community. But Jim is living a lie. Beneath the veneer there lies a deep-seated and long-suppressed desire that is about to destroy his family�s idyllic existence.
When Elaine, Jim�s wife, catches her husband in a hotel room with his lover, her anger turns to shock as she discovers that Jim�s paramour is another man. This leads to painful soul-searching for Elaine, and as rumours of Jim�s conduct spread through the community the Marshall�s children have trouble dealing with the indignity and 17-year-old Jesse turns to criminal acts.
Jim knows he can never return to the husband he once was, but he also knows he must work to repair the damage he has inflicted on those he loves.
A CHANGE OF HEART also stars PHILLIP GEOFFREY HOUGH (The Beach Boys: An All-American Family), SHAWNA WALDRON (The American President) and DORIAN HAREWOOD (Full Metal Jacket).
It is written by AARON MENDELSOHN (Air Bud) and directed by Tony Award nominee ARVIN BROWN (Just Ask My Children).
CHILD'S CRY
WAS HE JUST A �LITTLE BOY LOST� - OR THE VICTIM OF ABUSE?
A social worker struggles to win the trust of a little boy whom she believes has been the victim of sexual abuse in this chilling drama, starring LINDSAY WAGNER (The Bionic Woman) and PETER COYOTE (Jagged Edge).Dedicated but overburdened social worker Joanne Van Buren (Wagner) can do without yet another problematic case � especially that of 6-year-old Eric Townsend. The little boy has been found sleeping rough at the local zoo and has been taken into care. Eric is shy and withdrawn, but as Joanne begins to work with him to gain his confidence, she notices that he is fearful of his father, Matt (Coyote).
This has resonances for Joanne, who had a strained relationship with her own father, and she begins to project her experiences onto the case. She even suspects that Eric�s fear may derive from sexual abuse suffered at his father�s hands.
But how would a boy as young and fragile as Eric cope with the trauma of giving evidence in open court, even if it was the only way to nail Matt Townsend for his suspected horrific crimes?
CHILD�S CRY did indeed mark a change in the law, in that a child�s testimony in court is now allowed via a CCTV link. It also features a remarkable performance as Erik from TALIESIN JAFFE (Hail to the Chief, She�s the Sheriff), who won a Young Artist Award.
CHILD�S CRY was originally to have starred KATE JACKSON (TV�s Charlie�s Angels), but she had to withdraw due to other commitments; she still serves as the film�s executive producer.
The director and writer is GILBERT CATES, who has received several Emmy� Award nominations (and one win) for staging numerous Oscars� presentation ceremonies.
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