Three young students go into a holiday which rapidly turns into horror as they hit-and-run a lonely hitchhiker in desert. They decide to keep the accident a secret, but as more and more ...
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Title: Dead Silence (TV Movie 1991)
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Cast
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| Renée Estevez | ... | Zanna Young | |
| Lisanne Falk | ... | Joan Reducci | |
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Carrie Mitchum | ... | Sunnie Haines |
| Steven Brill | ... | Tommy | |
| Claudette Nevins | ... | Mrs. Stillman | |
| Tim Russ | ... | Dep. Ryan | |
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| Al Ruscio | ... | Reducci | |
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Andrew Zeller | ... | Eric |
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Laura Bastianelli | ... | Margie |
| Bojesse Christopher | ... | Diver | |
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A.J. Freeman | ... | Repairman |
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Three young students go into a holiday which rapidly turns into horror as they hit-and-run a lonely hitchhiker in desert. They decide to keep the accident a secret, but as more and more evidence begins to turn up, they face the contradiction between morals and friendship. Written by Winnowill <an209309@anon.penet.fi>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
26 August 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Death in Palm Springs See more »Filming Locations:
Palm Springs, California, USACompany Credits
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1.33 : 1
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This well-acted TV movie really surprised me. I expected a typical "spring-break" pseudo-horror film, but was drawn into a psychological tale of conscience fighting fear. Three young, attractive co-eds are vacationing before college graduation when something horrific happens to them; the mitigating circumstances cause them to make disastrous moral and ethical choices. Mitchum and Estevez (granddaughter of Robert and daughter of Martin Sheen, respectively) are fine but Falk shines as the most conflicted and least culpaple of the protagonists. The minuses: A tv movie is a tv movie is a tv movie- well, you get the picture. Again, all the more to my surprise that this picture acquitted itself nicely, despite the low budget and lack of name stars. The Corkymeter says 3 and a half stars (out of 5).