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Killing Daddy | |
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Written by | Trent Haaga |
Directed by | Curtis Crawford |
Starring | Elizabeth Gillies Cynthia Stevenson William R. Moses |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Tom Berry Neil Bregman |
Producers | Curtis Crawford Stefan Wodoslawsky |
Running time | 85 minutes |
Production company | Reel One Entertainment |
Distributor | Lifetime |
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Original release |
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Killing Daddy (also known as My Father Must Die) is a 2014 TV movie that aired on Lifetime. [1] The film stars Elizabeth Gillies, Cynthia Stevenson, and William R. Moses.
At a young age, Callie Ross (Sabrina Mangiaracina) has been scarred by the death of her mother (Jenilee Murray). When she is grown up, Callie (Elizabeth Gillies) has blamed her father George (William R. Moses) for her mother's death and has estranged herself from him and her sister Laura (Tori Anderson). Upon hearing that her father has come down with a stroke, Callie sees this as an opportunity to take revenge on her father and his housekeeper Emma Granger (Cynthia Stevenson) and regain what George has taken from her.
The film was released on July 5, 2014 on Lifetime, with re-airings on the Lifetime Movie Network. The film also aired in Canada on The Movie Network. [2] International airings of the film occurred on TF1 in France, on RTL-TVI in Belgium, [3] on Real Time in Italy, on Divinity in Spain [4] and on HRT 2 in Croatia. [5]
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