''Deadly Relations'' is a 1993 American
television film
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directed by
Bill Condon
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. It stars
Robert Urich
Robert Michael Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an American film, television, and stage actor, and television producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, he starred in a record 15 television series.
Urich began his ca ...
,
Shelley Fabares
Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (; born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her television roles as Mary Stone on the sitcom ''The Donna Reed Show'' (1958–1963) and as Christine Armstrong on the sitcom ...
and
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (; born ) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Paltrow gained notice for her early work in films ...
. The film originally aired on
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on May 22, 1993.
''Deadly Relations'' is based on the true crime book ''Deadly Relations: A True Story of Murder in a Suburban Family'' by Carol Donahue and Shirley Hall. Donahue and Hall are the daughters of Leonard Fagot, a
attorney whose obsession with controlling his daughters led to him murdering their husbands for hefty insurance pay outs.
Plot
Leonard Fagot has four daughters with whom he is obsessed. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date. And if he disapproves of them, he probably will have them killed to get them out of his daughters' life.
Cast
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Robert Urich
Robert Michael Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an American film, television, and stage actor, and television producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, he starred in a record 15 television series.
Urich began his ca ...
as Leonard J. Fagot
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Shelley Fabares
Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (; born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her television roles as Mary Stone on the sitcom ''The Donna Reed Show'' (1958–1963) and as Christine Armstrong on the sitcom ...
as Shirley Fagot
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (; born ) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Paltrow gained notice for her early work in films ...
as Carol Ann Fagot Applegarth Holland
* Joy Farmer as Shirley Fagot, Jr.
* Georgia Emelin as Joanne Fagot Westerfield
* Jillian Boyd as Nancy Fagot
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Matthew Perry
Matthew Langford Perry (born August 19, 1969) is an American-Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom ''Friends'' (1994–2004).
As well as starring in the short-lived television series ''Stud ...
as George Westerfield
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Tony Higgins
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Club career
During his career Higgins played for Hibernian, Partick Thistle, Greenock Morton and Stranraer. He played for Hibernian in the marathon 1979 Scotti ...
as Mike Holland
* Ted Marcoux as Bruce Applegarth
*
Roxana Zal
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Life and ...
as Marty
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1993 television films
1993 films
1990s crime drama films
American crime drama films
American thriller films
Thriller films based on actual events
Films based on non-fiction books
Films directed by Bill Condon
Films set in the 1960s
Films set in the 1970s
Films shot in Atlanta
Crime films based on actual events
ABC Motion Pictures films
American drama television films
1990s American films
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