| Genre: | Thriller |
| Story: | Whitfield Cook |
| Director: | Tommy Lee Wallace |
| Music: | Peter Manning Robinson |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | Michael Filerman |
| Producer: | Phil Parslow |
| Editor: | Paul Dixon |
| Cinematography: | Steven Poster |
| Runtime: | 96 minutes |
| Network: | CBS |
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.[1] It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Theresa Russell, and premiered on CBS on September 25, 1996.[2]
A fading actress, Sheila, finds consolation in a stranger, Margo, during her train journey. Sheila tells Margo of her desire to divorce her husband, and in turn Margo shares her hatred for her domineering mother. They jokingly suggest performing a murder on each other's behalf. But all too soon the joke becomes reality.