EDITOR’S NOTE: Deadly Deception was on the CBS Late Movie on December 22, 1989.
The VHS art for this movie makes it feel like you’re about to watch a Mexican straight to video horror movie. Instead, you get a well-made TV movie that was directed by the king of the form, John Llewellyn Moxey, and written by Gordon Cotler (The Facts of Life Down Under).
Laurie Shoat (Meg Gibson) is struggling with post-partum depression when she ends up dead and her child missing. The police just think it was a murder suicide while her husband Jack (Matt Salinger, Cannon’s Captain America) thinks that his son is still alive and that his wife was murdered. With the help of a reporter named Anne (Lisa Elibacher, 10 to Midnight), he learns that a woman named Sarah (Mildred Natwick) may be the secret to why his wife was found hung in a motel.
The New York Times said that it was, “melodrama, occasionally unpleasant, vaguely depressing, only fitfully interesting.” They’re wrong, but how often did reviewers like TV movies?
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