''Tainted'' is a 1987 American film written and directed by Orestes Matacena and starring

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. The film is a low-budget suspense drama about Cathy (Shattuck) a young school teacher married to the owner of a

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. It is centered on Cathy's attempt to cover-up the murder of an intruder who attempted to

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her. The cover up of the rape is due to the man that raped her being her ex-husband in the film.

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