Hands of a Stranger Movie Review 1987

Policeman's wife is raped during an adulterous tryst. As the painful truth dawns on the cop, he himself dallies with a compassionate lady D.A. while hunting the attacker. About as sordid as a network TV-movie gets without toppling into sleaze; strong acting and a sober script pull it through. But the plot, from Robert Daly's novel, doesn't justify miniseries treatment; the two-cassette package is excessively long.

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 179 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense, Cops, Rape

Screenplay

Arthur Kopit

Cast

Armand Assante, Beverly D'Angelo, Blair Brown, Michael Lerner, Philip Casnoff, Arliss Howard

Director

Larry Elikann

Producer

Worldvision, Edgar J. Scherick Associates