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When the Bough Breaks (1986 film)

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'When the Bough Breaks' is a 1986 television film directed by Waris Hussein and starring Ted Danson. The screenplay by Phil Penningroth was adapted from Jonathan Kellerman's 1985 novel of the same name. Danson, who also co-produced, plays the crime-solving forensic psychologist Alex Delaware, a character who appears in a series of novels by Kellerman.

Plot



Alex Delaware, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows, Milo Sturgis, comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and Sturgis wants the doctor to help: Alex agrees, and the two go on the trail of the real perpetrators.

Cast



* Ted Danson as Alex Delaware

* Richard Masur as Milo Sturgis

* Rachel Ticotin as Raquel Santos

* James Noble as Dr. Warren Towle

* Kim Miyori as Kim Hickle

* Merritt Butrick as Tim Kruger

* David Huddleston as Vicar McCaffey

* Charles Lane as Van der Graaf

* Scott Paulin as Rick

* Deborah Harmon as Lisa

Reception



A 1986 'New York Times' review said that, after a "properly taut start", "the solution to the mystery becomes apparent early on and that leaves the movie...tumbling rapidly into ever more unbelievable situations". Jeff Jarvis of 'People' magazine called 'When the Bough Breaks' "a nice, tight, tense little murder mystery" with "some neatly shocking scenes".

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