Hell Hath No Fury (film)

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Hell Hath No Fury
Genre
  • Thriller
  • Drama
Based onSmithereens novel by B.W. Battin
Written byBeau Bensink
Directed by Thomas J. Wright
Starring Barbara Eden
Loretta Swit
David Ackroyd
Amanda Peterson
Kim Zimmer
Richard Kline
Music by J. Peter Robinson
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersSheldon Pinchuk
Bill Finnegan
ProducerPat Finnegan
CinematographyFrank Beascoechea
EditorScott Eyler
Running time97 minutes
Production companiesBar-Gene Productions
Finnegan Pinchuk Company
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseMarch 4, 1991 (1991-03-04)

Hell Hath No Fury is a 1991 American made-for-television thriller-drama film starring Barbara Eden and Loretta Swit about a housewife who is simultaneously framed for her husband's murder and terrorized by the deranged woman who killed him. The film was directed by Thomas J. Wright and written by Beau Bensink based on the novel Smithereens by B.W. Battin. It originally premiered on NBC Monday Night at the Movies on March 4, 1991.

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Terri Ferguson (Barbara Eden) is a housewife married to well-known and respected businessman Stanley (David Ackroyd) who also has an estranged relationship with her college aged daughter Michelle (Peterson), and she's still feeling the empty nest syndrome. Terri's perfect world is shattered when her husband is brutally murdered and thus begins a terrifying ordeal where Terri finds herself the prime suspect in her husband's murder and becomes the helpless victim of Connie Stewart (Loretta Swit), a deranged woman and ex-college rival of Terri's who is the real murderer and was Stanley's ex-lover. She blames Terri for stealing Stanley away from her years ago and plots a psychotic revenge against her. Although the police are determined to convict Terri, and with no one else to turn to, she must do battle alone against Connie. [1]

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References

  1. Howard H. Prouty, Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews 1991-1992, Garland Publishing, 1994