Haunted by the drowning death of his own daughter, a police investigator embarks on an obsessive 10-year hunt for the identity of a dead boy, to the detriment of his family life.
Acting
Farley Granger's hollowed-out desperation
Direction
Friedman weaponizes mundane spaces
Director
Richard Friedman
Farley Granger
Douglas Andrews
Lee Bryant
Jane Andrews
John McCurry
Jim O'Brien
Arch Johnson
Dr. Robert Riordan
Barbara Bingham
Suzy Andrews
Ruth Warrick
Beatrice VandenBerg
Danny Aiello
Capt. Mike Grasso
Veronica Hart
Victoria Howe
Frank Ferrara Sr.
Lazio Szathmary
Kelly Nichols
Lover Nurse
Robert Kerman
Dr. Howe
Margaret Hall
Sister Margaret
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Farley Granger was Hitchcock's Rope and Strangers on a Train star; this was his final theatrical lead, a grim bookend to his Golden Age career.
Released in 1984 but feels like 1974 — Friedman deliberately evoked the 'paranoid thriller' era while Reagan-era audiences wanted escapism. It bombed.
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