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Head On is a canadien film of genre Drama with Sally Kellerman
Head On (1980)
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Add to a movie listHead On is a 1980 Canadian drama film directed by Michael Grant. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival. It was released on VHS home video by Vestron Video in 1985 in the USA and has not yet been released on DVD. It is also known in the USA as Fatal Attraction (not to be confused with the 1987 film of the same name starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close).
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Michelle Keys and Peter Hill are two strangers who meet by accident in a head-on traffic accident. Both of them receive only minor injuries but they bring legal action against each other. Soon their business relationship leads to romance as their mutual attraction to one another transforms into a bizarre game of sexual upmanship with each encounter becoming more perverse.Actors
Sally Kellerman
(Michelle Keys)
Stephen Lack
(Peter Hill)
Lawrence Dane
(Frank Keys)
John Huston
(Clarke Hill)
Tiffany Million
(Head Nurse)
Hadley Kay
(Michelle's Patient (Stanley))
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