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directed by

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and starring

Dylan McDermott Mark Anthony "Dylan" McDermott (born October 26, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for his role as lawyer and law firm head Bobby Donnell on the legal drama series ''The Practice'', which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performa ...

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, and

Sharon Stone Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress and film producer. Known for primarily playing femmes fatales and women of mystery on film and television, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1990s. She is the ...

. The primary location for the film was C.E. Toberman Estate in

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, a large Mediterranean-style, 22-room house built at the top of Camino Palmero in 1928 by C. E. Toberman.

Plot

A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion. A psychological thriller with an aspiring writer who was recently evicted moves into a run down California mansion; an enigmatic tenant collaborates on his novel as the "real" killer of the family that the writer is writing about. The writer does not like writing about "blood and guts" to have a best-seller; yet, desperation finds him moving into a house where the inhabitants were murdered by a serial killer, still-at-large, the "real killer" moves into the house as a tenant, helps write the book, then reveals that he killed the family.Zion, Lawrie. The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria, Australia · Thursday, November 02, 1995. Page 56

Cast

as Bruce Simmons *

as Evan Best *

as Serena Black *

Ron Karabatsos Ronald Christ Karabatsos (1933–2012) was an American character actor, who prior to his acting career worked as a Union City police detective. Early life Karabatsos was born on April 22, 1933, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA, to Constantine and ...

as Stan Reeb *

as Eddie Hale *

Mary Woronov Mary Woronov (born December 8, 1943) is an American actress, writer, and Figurative art, figurative painter. She is primarily known as a cult film star because of her work with Andy Warhol and her roles in Roger Corman's cult films. Woronov has ...

as Woman Tourist * David Q Combs as Man Tourist *

Vanna Bonta Vanna Marie Bonta (April 3, 1953 – July 8, 2014) was an American writer, actress, and inventor. She was of partial Italian descent. She wrote ''Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel''. As an actress, Bonta played "Zed's Queen" in ''The Beastmaster''. ...

as Serena's Secretary * Elizabeth Whitcraft as Serena's Secretary (as Liza Whitcraft) * Phoebe Stone as Little Girl * Shawne Rowe as Telegram Clown * Richard Zavaglia as Detective Clifton * Jillian McWhirter as Dol Whitney *

Brett Cullen Peter Brett Cullen (born August 26, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Dan Fixx in ''Falcon Crest'' (1986–1988), Sam Cain in '' The Young Riders'' (1989–1990), Governor Ray Sullivan in ''The West Wing'' (2005–2 ...

as John Whitney

References

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* * 1991 films 1991 crime thriller films 1990s American films 1990s English-language films American crime thriller films Films about writers Films scored by Hans Zimmer Films scored by Mark Mancina Films shot in Los Angeles English-language crime thriller films {{crime-thriller-film-stub

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