Five Desperate Hours
Release Date: 1997-10-05
Rating : 5.2/10
Duration : 90 minutes
Genres : Crime, Thriller, TV Movie
Director : Dan Lerner
Writer : Philip Rosenberg
Joseph Grange (Giancarlo Esposito), an unstable fugitive from the law, bursts into the home of suburban housewife Claire Ballard (Sharon Lawrence), and an intense hostage drama begins. Desperate to save her life, Claire initiates a dialogue with Grange as a trigger-happy SWAT team waits outside poised to storm the house. Claire, herself the product of a troubled past, begins to identify with the tormented Grange and, over five tension-filled hours, victim and captor forge an unlikely bond.
Cast
Sharon Lawrence
Giancarlo Esposito
Daniel Hugh Kelly
Rocky Carroll
Doug Abrahams