, 1h35 Directed byPhyllis Nagy OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller ActorsAnnette Bening, Ben Kingsley, Cloris Leachman, Michael Gross, Frances Fisher, Frank Whaley Roles Crying Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) Rating59% On a stormy night in March 1980, a distraught Jean Harris arrives at the baronial Purchase, New York home of Herman Tarnower following a five-hour drive from McLean, Virginia. Her goal is to commit suicide beside the pond on his estate after confronting her former lover, who spurned her in favor of his considerably younger secretary-receptionist Lynne Tryforos. When she removes a gun from her handbag, Tarnower attempts to take it away from her, and in the struggle he accidentally is shot and collapses. Because the phone isn't working, Jean drives off to seek help from a neighbor, only to return to the house when she sees a police car heading in that direction.