Beyond Suspicion (1993) (TV)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

William A. Graham

Writers (WGA):

Susan Crain Bakos (book)
Karen Clark (teleplay)

Release Date:

22 November 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller | Drama

Plot:

The wife of a dentist suspects her husband of multiple homicide. After sharing her concerns with the authorities, she is convinced to help bring him to justice... but at what price?

Plot Keywords:

Based On True Story | Based On Book

Cast

Markie Post	...	Joyce
Corbin Bernsen	...	Stan
Don Swayze	...	Duke
Jeanne Cooper	...	Renata
Laurie O'Brien
Suzanne Barnes	...	Gloria
Danielle von Zerneck
Matthew Best	...	Christopher
Kelsey Grammer	...	Ron McNally
John Putch	...	Lipsky
Melissa Pace	...	Pace
Janet Graham	...	Silvia
Geoff Hansen	...	Brad
Anna Maria Sistare	...	Helen
Harry Murphy	...	Jonah

Also Known As:

Appointment for a Killing

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M

Company:

Patricia K. Meyer Productions

Based on a true story

Joyce is married to Stan, a dentist, and they have one son. One day Joyce pays a visit to Stan's dental office and finds him in the dental chair having a hot session with a woman named Gloria.

Gloria has only been married a couple of months to a guy named Brad - but she's not in love with Brad - that's just for money.

Stan, along with the help of an ex-con he knows, helps Gloria in obtaining this money.

Joyce divorces Stan, but he keeps on hanging around anyway. Why Stan and Gloria don't get married, I never understood. Instead, Stan seems to keep wanting to get Joyce back.

One night while Stan and Joyce are making love, Stan confesses to her about having committed murder, thinking it will turn her on.

Instead it frightens Joyce and arouses her suspicions of Stan in connection with several unsolved murders of people, all of whom in some way link back to Stan.

Joyce contacts the police, who bug her house, and she tries to get Stan to talk.

Now the obvious thing for her to do would be to tell Stan, she's been thinking about what he said that night, and that yeah, it is a turn on, but does she do this? No, instead Joyce goes about trying to get the information from Stan in the most roundabout way possible, with a paranoid, psychotically dangerous Stan becoming increasingly suspicious of her.

The most amazing thing about this story to me,[which is true]was the number of people willing to be an accessory to murder at the drop of a hat if it meant some money coming their way.

Some things were never clear to me regarding motivation and how some of these crimes came about or why.

I gave it a 5 out of 10 stars. Average film.