My Sister's Keeper ( A Killing Affair )

My Sister's Keeper (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: A Killing Affair
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1986 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
David Saperstein

Written By:
Robert Houston

Actors:
Peter Weller ..... Baston Morris
Kathy Baker ..... Maggie Gresham
John Glover ..... Sheb Sheppard
Bill Smitrovich ..... Pink Gresham

Synopsis:

In 1943 West Virginia, Maggie Gresham lives with her two children and her abusive, cheating husband Pink who is the foreman of the local mill. When a drifter named Baston comes into town and asks Pink for a job, Pink insults and rejects him. The following day, Maggie finds Pink's body at their isolated house in the forest. Soon after, Baston arrives at Maggie's door pretending to be looking for Pink, but then holds her at gunpoint, telling her how he killed her husband with an axe. After Maggie has been trapped in the house with Baston for several days, he explains that he murdered Pink because he learned that he had had an affair with his wife and killed their two children. As they talk, Maggie and Baston become romantically drawn to each other, but their relationship comes to a tragic end.

It's 1943, the isolated backwoods of Appalachia, a woman takes in a stranger who admits he killed her husband. He claims he was repaying him for sleeping with his wife and killing his family. The relationship between the widow and the killer intensifies, she doesn't know if she can trust him, or why she can't fight him.

The story of a widow (in West Virginia) who takes in a drifter who she believes killed her husband. She begins to fall for him but cannot be sure if she should trust him.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 04 June, 2008.