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5.9/10   145 votes
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Director:

Alan Metzger

Writer (WGA):

Alan Hines (written by)

Contact:

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Release Date:

12 March 2001 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Tagline:

She married the man of her dreams and found herself in the nightmare of her life.

Plot:

A woman (Margaret Colin) discovers that her husband faked his death and assumed a new identity, while she struggled for 10 years as a single mother. full summary | add synopsis

User Comments:

Nice TV movie more (3 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Margaret Colin ... Elizabeth 'Peachy' Welsh

Jay O. Sanders ... Patrick Hennessy Welsh / Timothy Michael Kingsbury
Aaron Ashmore ... Chris Welsh

Michael Cera ... Young Ted Welsh

Erik Knudsen ... Young Chris Welsh
Maria Ricossa ... Linda Berg
Victoria Snow ... Claire

Gary Hudson ... Bill Sellers

Will Estes ... Ted Welsh

Anna Ferguson ... Ann Welsh
George R. Robertson ... Dick Welsh
Ralph Small ... Paul
Carolyn Dunn ... Sharon Baker
Michelle Moffat ... Prosecutor (as Michelle Moffatt)
Elva Mai Hoover ... Sheila
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

My Husband's Double Life (Australia) (UK) (USA) (DVD title)
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Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:U | Australia:M


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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Nice TV movie, 24 January 2005
6/10
Author: sammie_now from Vlissingen, Netherlands

My TV guide said that was a thriller, now at the end i just knew it could not be a thriller. It isn't; it's drama. TV guide was wrong. ;-). Now at the end they said that this was based on a real story, with some dramatic and added fiction. My first thought was: What was a real and what was not? The way the man faked his death? The way he felt sorry for his family? The way she, the wife was afraid of bonding? I don't know. I liked the movie, it's a nice TV-movie. But it starts slow, you see how close the family is to a certain point and then he is gone. The children suddenly grow up and then dad turns out to be alive. OK, nice! Why did the judge or social security not found out that he was already married or so? That's the only thing that kinda bite me.

For overall this movie is a 6 out of 10. Not perfect, not bad but just nice.

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