Overview - False Pretenses

Date of release

Genres

  • TV Movie
  • Thriller
  • Drama

Runtime: 86 minutes

Homepage: False Pretenses

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

Revenue data not disclosed

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Power

    Production country

  • Name: Incendo Productions

    Production country Canada

  • Name: Power

    Production country

  • Name: Lifetime

    Production country United States of America

Overview

Falling victim to a glib con artist named Michael (Stewart Bick), Texas housewife Diane (Peta Wilson) loses all her money, a disaster that drives her husband Randal (Anthony Lemke) to suicide. Unable to get justice through the official channels, Diane mounts her own plan of revenge. This involves assuming a new identity, trading in her blonde tresses for a redheaded "do", moving to a small town, and systematically seducing the man who ruined her life. One of six "no frills" TV movies produced in Canada for the Lifetime cable network at a flat cost of 2 million each,

Cast

  • Name: Peta Wilson

    Character: Dianne / Dee Dee Martin

    Popularity: 1.8041

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  • Name: Stewart Bick

    Character: Mitchell Thomson

    Popularity: 1.3629

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  • Name: Melanie Nicholls-King

    Character: Cerise

    Popularity: 0.516

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  • Name: Conrad Pla

    Character: Nando

    Popularity: 0.768

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  • Name: Francis X. McCarthy

    Character: Chasen Boggs

    Popularity: 0.8364

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  • Name: Anthony Lemke

    Character: Randal Ackers

    Popularity: 0.7362

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  • Name: David Gow

    Character: Norm

    Popularity: 0.2745

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  • Name: Jennifer Morehouse

    Character: Paige Segal

    Popularity: 0.3555

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