Dangerous Intentions (1995)

Director:

Michael Toshiyuki Uno

Writer (WGA):

David J. Hill (written by)

Release Date:

3 January 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A man stalks his wife and child when they leave for an abused women's shelter. |

Plot Keywords:

Womens Shelter | Lifting Someone Into The Air | Family Relationships | Table | Lifting Female In Air

Cast

Donna Mills	...	Beth Williamson
Corbin Bernsen	...	Tom Williamson
Allison Hossack	...	Terri
Sheila Larken
Ken Pogue	...	Andrew
Anna Ferguson	...	Alice
Alexandra Purvis
Patti Yasutake
Robin Givens	...	Kaye Ferrar
Tracey Olson	...	Joe Ferrar
Tom Cavanagh	...	Ron
Andrew Wheeler	...	Mark Atkinson
Roger R. Cross	...	Assistant D.A. Bob Melchor
Ric Reid	...	Martin Atwater
Nathaniel DeVeaux	...	Detective Saunders
Walter Marsh	...	Osgood Winter
Norma MacMillan	...	Eula Winter
Chad Dormer	...	Gregory Ferrar
Emily Harrison	...	Bonnie Ferrar
Alan Van Sprang	...	Marshall Cameron
Patti Allan	...	Domestic Violence Leader
Paul Batten	...	Bob
William B. Davis	...	Group Leader
J.B. Bivens	...	Officer Bivens
Charles Warner	...	Officer Nash
Fulvio Cecere	...	Officer Tuggles
Deryl Hayes	...	Officer Lawson
Judith Maxie	...	Judge Ruth Taylor
Russell Ferrier	...	Jail Guard
Tosca Baggoo	...	Bank Teller
Robert Saunders	...	Bus Driver
Iris Quinn	...	Woman on Porch
Paul Hubbard	...	Officer
Janie Woods-Morris	...	Woman Customer #A
BJ Harrison	...	Woman Customer #B
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paul A. Kaufman	...	Juror (uncredited)

Directed by
Michael Toshiyuki Uno

Writing credits (WGA)
David J. Hill		(written by)

Produced by
Annette Handley	....	executive producer
Paul A. Kaufman	....	executive producer
Donald Kushner	....	executive producer
Peter Locke	....	executive producer
Joel S. Rice	....	executive producer

Original Music by
James McVay

Cinematography by
Henry M. Lebo

Film Editing by
Peter C. Frank
Pam Wise

Production Design by
Sheila Haley

Costume Design by
Tish Monaghan

Production Management
Fiona Duncanson	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Paul A. Kaufman	....	second unit director

Sound Department
Kris Fenske	....	assistant sound editor
Michael McGee	....	production sound mixer

Stunts
Siegfried Polap	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Marco Ciccone	....	first assistant camera
Michael Derbas	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Karyn Wagner	....	costumer: Donna Mills

Transportation Department
Dave Miller	....	transportation co-captain

Other crew
Tina Dawson	....	assistant accountant: payroll

Production Companies

• Kaufman Company, The
• Kushner-Locke Company, The
• WildRice Productions

Distributors

• Aquarius TV (2000) (Greece) (TV)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1995) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• New Films International

Also Known As:

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Kaufman Company, The

Quotes:

Beth Williamson:[in court, as Ron goes aggressive on her on Kaye's murder trial] Wait a minute! I'm not the one on trial here; he is! How dare you try to muddy Kaye's character! How dare you point fingers at me!
Judge Ruth Taylor:Order!
Beth Williamson:He hunted her down and he killed her!
Ron:Objection!
Judge Ruth Taylor:Counselor...
Assistant D.A. Bob Melchor:Beth...
Beth Williamson:I'm sick of hiding, I'm sick of wondering when and where it's going to happen to me, and I'm sick of people like you who do NOTHING ABOUT IT!
Judge Ruth Taylor:Counselor, control your witness or she'll be placed in contentive court!
Beth Williamson:They hunt us down, we hide, they find us, we go deeper into hiding and they find us, we run - it happens over and over and over again! And all the time in the back of your mind, you're terrified that the day is going to come when there won't be anyplace left to hide. You fight that with everything that's in you, but the fear wears you out.
[the jury goes silent as they listen to her]
[...]

Everything that ever meant anything to me you've taken away!

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

**SPOILER** Hard hitting movie about spousal abuse and how in many cases the law and court system is unable to prevent it. That's until the person abused almost ends up being murdered by, in this case the wife, her abuser.

You can see right away that Tom Williamson, Corbin Bernsen, is committable in how he treats his long suffering wife Beth, Donna Mills, at the start of the film. It's as if anything that Beth does is not good enough for her control freak nut-case of a husband! Even the potato salad that Beth cooked up for Tom and her sweet and also abused, because of her pops instability, 6 year old daughter Lourie, Alexandera Purvis, ended up, together with the main course, on the floor not the kitchen table. Always looking to start something over nothing Tom's brutality against his helpless wife reach a breaking point when she together with little Lourie flee from the Williamson home to the safety of her sister Terrie's, Allison Hossack, place before the deranged Tom ends up killing her.

It's later when Tom breaks into Beth's parents house where she was staying that he really went all out in battering her leaving Beth's face a bloody mess and almost unrecognizable. It's then with Beth's father Andrew, Ken Pouge, and the local police coming to her rescue that she finally decided to press charges against the crazed and dangerous lunatic. Faced with jail time and the loss of his daughter Lourie, in a custody battle that Beth is sure to win, Tom changes his tactics in him acting babyish and almost stupid. This is Tom's way of trying to show the court just how innocent he is and that it's really Beth, whom he claims abuses both him and Lourie, who's really the cause of all the problems in the Williamson household. Being the master manipulator that he is Tom at first gets away with it in him being released from the clink, jail, but forced to attend anger management classes. Instead of learning to control his temper Tom learns all the ins and outs of saying the right words to his probation officer that ends up with him being let out on the street to do more damage to Beth despite an order of protection from the court issued against him!

It's when Beth is forced to testify in open court against her roommate Kaye Farrar's (Robin Givens), at the local battered woman's shelter where Beth & Lourie are now living, deranged and estranged husband Joe, Tracy Olsen, whom she witnessed knifing her to death that her cover in being in the witness protection program is blown. With Tom now completely out of control in his wanting to do Beth in he now can find out, in her being forced to testify, Beth's place of residence!

**SPOILERS** If Tom wasn't crazy enough the last ten or so minutes of the film has him go the whole nine yards straight to a both padded cell and straight-jacket. It's Beth very alert neighbors who in the end saved her life by calling the police who came to her rescue when this time around Tom was ready to use a gun, not his fists, on her! The movie shows how a defenseless woman like Beth Williamson is mistreated by her deranged husband because of at first her unwillingness, until it finally gets out of hand, to press charges against him. It was Beth putting up with Tom's craziness that in fact encouraged, in getting away with it, instead of pacified Tom and almost lead to her ending up getting killed by him!