Sexual Advances

May 10, 1992

1h 40m

★ 6.0

Sexual harassment. It's just a story in the news until it happens to you.

Overview

Drama about a happily married career woman who falls victim to a management power play involving sexual harassment by her sports-equipment company's in-house lawyer.

Genres

TV Movie

Drama

Production Companies

Carol Polakoff Productions Inc.

Spelling Entertainment

ABC

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Cast

Paula Pratt

Stephanie Zimbalist

Jack French

William Russ

Cliff Ripley

Terry O'Quinn

Soloman Bethune

Réal Andrews

Marshall Pratt

Patrick James Clarke

Rita

Deborah May

Loretta

Sheelah Megill

Treadway

Ken Pogue

Rosalie

Veena Sood

Chris

Peter Stebbings

Jocelyn

Catherine Zak

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.

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