''Run for Your Life'' is a 2014 American a television drama film based on a true story for

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. Meredith ( Amy Smart) is a battered Canadian woman who flees Canada to escape her abusive husband. She settles in Seattle, but her now-remarried ex-husband finds her. To protect her children, she must choose between killing him herself, hiring someone to kill him, or disappearing with her children and assuming new identities. It is based on Katherine Kotaw's memoir ''Quicksand: One Woman’s Escape From the Husband Who Stalked Her''.Emily L. Newman, Emily Witsell ''The Lifetime Network: Essays on "Television for Women" in the 21st Century''- 2016 1476624593 "... Run for Your Life, Amy Smart plays a woman in an abusive relationship who struggles with the decision to disappear and hide from her ex or to kill him. Based in part on a true story, the film draws from Katherine Kotaw's memoir Quicksand:" The movie shows the events and consequences based on both paths in parallel, with frequent scene switching between the paths.

Cast

* Amy Smart as Meredith Redmond * Mark Humphrey as Robert Redmond * Aislyn Watson as Amanda Redmond * Genea Charpentier as Isabel Beckman * Lochlyn Munro as Neal *

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as Annabelle Redmond

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* 2014 television films 2014 films 2014 drama films Films about dysfunctional families Films set in Seattle American drama television films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films {{US-tv-drama-film-stub