25 Jun 2000
One False Step
A comic feature film about an underachieving writer who sets out to write his masterpiece, but is confounded when one of its characters steps into his real life and introduces him to a life of sin and corruption.
Top Billed Cast
David Strathairn Jackson Kinley
Mary McDonnell Dora Overton
Sean McCann Theodore Warfield
Chris Wiggins Horace Talbott
Jackie Burroughs Granny Dollar
Nancy Beatty Mrs. Dinker
Marnie McPhail Edna Mae Kinley
Bernard Behrens Dr. Vernon Stark
Mert Hatfield Thomas Warfield
Dean McDermott Young Harlan Wade
Géza Kovács Luther Snow
Doug Lennox Harlan Wade
Linda Goranson Mrs. Hunter
Stuart Hughes Young Luther Snow
Norma Dell'Agnese Kitty Slater
Helen Hughes Betty Raines
Sean Sullivan Lloyd Walter Overton
Leon Pownall Gordon Townsend
Robyn Stevan Luanne
Soo Garay Maria
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