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When the Bough Breaks is a american film of genre Drama directed by Waris Hussein released in USA on 12 october 1986 with Ted Danson
When the Bough Breaks (1986)
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Add to a movie listWhen the Bough Breaks is a 1986 television film directed by Waris Hussein and starring Ted Danson. The screenplay by Phil Penningroth was adapted from a 1985 novel by Jonathan Kellerman, also titled When the Bough Breaks. Danson, who also co-produced, plays the crime-solving forensic psychologist Alex Delaware, a character who appears in a series of novels by Kellerman.
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Alex Delaware, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows, Milo Sturgis, comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and Sturgis wants the doctor to help: Alex agrees, and the two go on the trail of the real perpetrators.Actors
Ted Danson
(Alex)
Richard Masur
(Milo)
Rachel Ticotin
(Raquel Santos)
James Noble
(Dr. Warren Towle)
Kim Miyori
(Kim Hickle)
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