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Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery
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Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery

Aug 4, 2006
1h 31m
★ 5.9

Some secrets kill.

Overview

When hard boiled private eye Donald Strachey finds his latest client dead, an apparent suicide, Albany’s favorite gay detective smells a rat and decides to take matters into his own hands. With the help of his straight-laced but adoring husband Tim and his occasionally too-eager assistant Kenny, Strachey’s investigation leads him on a dark and dangerous trail into the world of "gay conversion therapy".

Genres

Crime
Drama
Mystery
Thriller

Production Companies

Shavick Entertainment
Insight Film Studios
Here! Films

Cast

Chad Allen

Donald Strachey

Chad Allen

Sebastian Spence

Timmy Callahan

Sebastian Spence

Michael Woods

Dr. Trevor Cornell

Michael Woods

Morgan Fairchild

Phyllis Hale

Morgan Fairchild

Daryl Shuttleworth

Detective Bailey

Daryl Shuttleworth

Anne Marie DeLuise

Lynn Cornell

Anne Marie DeLuise

Stephen Huszar

Grey

Stephen Huszar

Nelson Wong

Kenny Kwon

Nelson Wong

Ryan Kennedy

Walter

Ryan Kennedy

Shawn Roberts

Larry

Shawn Roberts

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Levon

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Rikki Gagne

Katey Simmons

Rikki Gagne

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