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Once You Meet a Stranger (1996)

Once You Meet a Stranger poster
Directed by
Tommy Lee Wallace
Genre
thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two women meet by chance and agree to swap murders. One takes the deal seriously while the other becomes trapped in a dangerous game of manipulation.

tensesuspensefuldarkpsychologically intenseunsettlingdeliberatetwistedchilling

What happens

Once You Meet a Stranger is a 1996 American thriller television film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. It is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film Strangers on a Train, based on the 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith. In the remake, the genders of the principal characters have been switched from male to female. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Theresa Russell, and it premiered on CBS on September 25, 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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