Too Close to Home (1997) Online
The 29 year old lawyer Nick Donahue is still living with his mother (Diana). To escape from her possessive behavior, he decides to look for a flat of his own. Diana can't stand the idea of her son leaving her. Trying to make him change his mind ,she doesn't even hesitate to simulate a suicide attempt. While she is hospitalized, Nick falls in love with a nurse (Abby) and they quickly marry. When Diana finds this out, things take a dramatic turn...
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Judith Light | - | Diana Donahue | |
Ricky Schroder | - | Nick Donahue (as Rick Schroder) | |
Sarah Trigger | - | Abigail 'Abby' Emma Fletcher | |
Dorothy Gordon | - | Mrs. Jane Sweeney | |
Ruth Marshall | - | Adrienne | |
John Nelles | - | Brian Moffett | |
Peter MacNeill | - | Judge Sorenson | |
Harry Lennix | - | Prosecuting Attorney | |
Sugith Varughese | - | Henry Singh | |
Allegra Fulton | - | Gloria Lopez | |
Isai Rivera Blas | - | Humberto Lopez (as Gil Rivera Blas) | |
Don Allison | - | Ted Barnes | |
James Kidnie | - | Woody Ryan | |
Christopher Kelk | - | Jackson | |
Domenic Cina | - | Witness |
Based on a real-life incident. In 1958, Elizabeth Ann Duncan hired two drifters - Augustine Baldonado and Luis Moya - to murder her pregnant daughter-in-law out of jealousy of her son, Frank, an attorney. As in the film, Frank met his wife, a nurse, at a hospital after Elizabeth attempted suicide in a ploy to keep him from leaving home, and, as in the film, he represented his mother at her trial. Elizabeth, Baldonado, and Moya were executed in San Quentin's gas chamber on August 8, 1962.
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