Silent Motive

Silent Motive

90 mins | Thriller, TV Movie | Oct. 16, 1991

Notorious for writing the most successful - and scandalous - scripts in Hollywood, hit screenwriter Laura Bardell suddenly finds herself implicated in a baffling series of film-industry killings. What's worse, the killer is using the same ingenious methods Laura herself employed in her latest movie about a real-life murder case. To her horror, Laura realizes her script is coming to life - and turning her fictional words into homicidal reality.

Silent Motive

90 mins | Thriller, TV Movie | Oct. 16, 1991

Silent Motive
Notorious for writing the most successful - and scandalous - scripts in Hollywood, hit screenwriter Laura Bardell suddenly finds herself implicated in a baffling series of film-industry killings. What's worse, the killer is using the same ingenious methods Laura herself employed in her latest movie about a real-life murder case. To her horror, Laura realizes her script is coming to life - and turning her fictional words into homicidal reality.
Producers Lifetime, Farrell/Minoff, Viacom Productions
Original title Silent Motive
Directors Lee Philips
Writers William P. Bekkala

Cast

Patricia Wettig

as Laura Bardell

Ed Asner

as Sam

Mike Farrell

as Detective Paul Trella

David Packer

as Brian / Cliff Sloan / Mark Gallaway

Molly Parker

as 2nd Female Questioner

Johannah Newmarch

as 1st Female Questioner

David Cubitt

as Doug

Kevin McNulty

as Cop

Frank Ferrucci

as Waiter

Rebecca Toolan

as Randy

Mark Brandon

as Presenter