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Once You Meet a Stranger is a 1996 American thriller television film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. It is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film Strangers on a Train, based on the 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith. In the remake, the genders of the principal characters have been switched from male to female.[1] It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Theresa Russell, and premiered on CBS on September 25, 1996.[2]
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Genre | Thriller |
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Story by | Whitfield Cook |
Directed by | Tommy Lee Wallace |
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Music by | Peter Manning Robinson |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Executive producer | Michael Filerman |
Producer | Phil Parslow |
Cinematography | Steven Poster |
Editor | Paul Dixon |
Running time | 96 minutes |
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Network | CBS |
Release | September 25, 1996 |
A fading actress, Sheila, finds consolation in a stranger, Margo, during her train journey. Sheila tells Margo of her desire to divorce her husband, and in turn Margo shares her hatred for her domineering mother. They jokingly suggest performing a murder on each other's behalf. But all too soon the joke becomes reality.
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