Secret Lives

Jul 21, 2005

1h 36m

★ 5.3

Overview

An art professor is informed that the husband she thought died ten years before has just been murdered. So she starts to research her husband's secret life in search of the reason he disappeared and who might have killed him.

Genres

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

Regent Entertainment

Secretive Productions

Shavick Entertainment

Insight Productions

Insight Film & Video Productions

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Cast

Jill Thompson

Daphne Zuniga

Mike McCoy

Duncan Regehr

Shelby

Lisa Ryder

Sheriff Knowles

Philip Granger

Randi

Anne Openshaw

Leonard

Ken Dresen

Madge

Carol Alexander

Carla

Heather McDermott

Mark

Mackenzie Gray

Figure

John Homback

Andrew

Jeff Cunningham

Dock Worker

Randy Thompson

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