Based On: | Smithereens novel by B.W. Battin |
Director: | Thomas J. Wright |
Starring: | Barbara Eden Loretta Swit David Ackroyd Amanda Peterson Kim Zimmer Richard Kline |
Music: | J. Peter Robinson |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Executive Producer: | Sheldon Pinchuk Bill Finnegan |
Producer: | Pat Finnegan |
Editor: | Scott Eyler |
Cinematography: | Frank Beascoechea |
Runtime: | 97 minutes |
Company: | Bar-Gene Productions Finnegan Pinchuk Company |
Network: | NBC |
Hell Hath No Fury is a 1991 American made-for-television thriller-drama film starring Barbara Eden and Loretta Swit about a housewife who is simultaneously framed for her husband's murder and terrorized by the deranged woman who killed him. The film was directed by Thomas J. Wright and written by Beau Bensink based on the novel Smithereens by B.W. Battin. It originally premiered on NBC Monday Night at the Movies on March 4, 1991.
Terri Ferguson (Barbara Eden) is a housewife married to well-known and respected businessman Stanley (David Ackroyd) who also has an estranged relationship with her college aged daughter Michelle (Peterson), and she's still feeling the empty nest syndrome. Terri's perfect world is shattered when her husband is brutally murdered and thus begins a terrifying ordeal where Terri finds herself the prime suspect in her husband's murder and becomes the helpless victim of Connie Stewart (Loretta Swit), a deranged woman and ex-college rival of Terri's who is the real murderer and was Stanley's ex-lover. She blames Terri for stealing Stanley away from her years ago and plots a psychotic revenge against her. Although the police are determined to convict Terri, and with no one else to turn to, she must do battle alone against Connie.[1]