Facing the Enemy is a 2001 erotic

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starring

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, and

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. The film was directed by Robert Malenfant and produced by

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Premise

Detective Griffin "Griff" McCleary's son Kevin McCleary shoots himself with Griff's gun. A year later both he and his wife are still reeling from it. Griff feeling shut out by his wife Olivia, decides to move out. Now he is investigating what appears to be a murder a murder-suicide. He believes that there is no suicide. His investigation leads to a girl named Nikki Mayhew. It seems that Nikki is

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and has not had much luck with men. When Griff helps her, she asks if she could stay with Griff, after she and Griff sleep together, she learns that he is a cop and that he has been following her, shattered Nikki shoots herself. Griff is then suspended from the force. But he is unaware that her partner-lover Harlan Moss, wanting to get back at Griff, Harlan is pursuing Griff's estranged wife Olivia. Who is vulnerable after hearing what happened between Griff and Nikki.

Cast

as Detective Griffin "Griff" McCleary *

as Olivia McCleary *

as Harlan Moss *

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as Nikki Mayhew * Melanie Wilson as Cassie Iver * Bruce Weitz as Lieutenant Carl Runyon *

Max Gail Maxwell Trowbridge Gail Jr. (born April 5, 1943) is an American actor who has starred on stage, and in television and film roles. He is best known for his role as Detective Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz on the sitcom ''Barney Miller'' (1975–1982), ...

as Thomas Galloway * Christopher Comes as Benny Janovic *

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as Irene Spellman * Patricia Harty as Sandra Galloway * Greg Fitzpatrick as Brett * Judith Montgomery as Dolly Dixon * Dyllan Christopher as Kevin McCleary * Emmett Shoemaker as Jeff * Anne Welles as Anita * Christopher Kriesa as Detective Stewart * Ron Smith as The Man On The Street (uncredited)

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