Happy Face Murders

Happy Face Murders

98 mins | Drama, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie | Sept. 5, 1999

An eccentric older woman implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young retarded girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.

Happy Face Murders

98 mins | Drama, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie | Sept. 5, 1999

Happy Face Murders
An eccentric older woman implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young retarded girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Paramount, Showtime Networks, Cosgrove/Meurer Productions
Original title Happy Face Murders
Directors Brian Trenchard-Smith
Writers John Pielmeier

Cast

Ann-Margret

as Lorraine Petrovich

Marg Helgenberger

as Jen Powell

Henry Thomas

as Dylan McCarthy

Nicholas Campbell

as Rusty Zuvic

Rick Peters

as Billy Lee Peterson

David McIlwraith

as Alan Sanford

Bruce Gray

as Ephraim Quince

J. C. MacKenzie

as Ed Baker

Emily Hampshire

as Tracy Billings

Anthony J. Mifsud

as Gary Martin

Christina Collins

as Nancy Severn

Sean Dick

as Charlie Severn

Lynne Deragon

as Virginia Billings

Raoul Bhaneja

as Dr. Mike Strong

Katya Gardner

as Rachel

James Downing

as Jake

Carole Mackereth

as Laura

Sarain Boylan

as Jill Watkins

Jackie Richardson

as Judge Hoyle

Marcia Bennett

as Judge Peale

Vickie Papavs

as Trucking Secretary

Len Doncheff

as Sheriff Frank Rogers

Richard Blackburn

as Sergeant Blakely

Sonia Dhillon Tully

as Secretarial Assistant