Dead Before Dawn

1993

Drama / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 757 757

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Plot summary

Based upon a true story. Wife with young family finds life becoming unbearable with her successful, but violent and abusive, husband. After filing for divorce, she quickly learns that her husband, through fear of his personal life embarrassing his clients, has commissioned an assassin to murder her before going to court. Unfortunately, for him, the hired assassin turns out to be an FBI agent. The FBI convince her that she must “pretend” to have been murdered in order to prove her husband’s involvement.

Director

Charles Correll Photo
Charles Correll

Top cast

Cheryl Ladd Photo
Cheryl Ladd as Linda
Kim Coates Photo
Kim Coates as Zack
Hope Lange Photo
Hope Lange as Virginia DeSilva
Jensen Daggett Photo
Jensen Daggett as Dana Shoreham
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897.4 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 4
1.62 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Freedom060286 7 / 10

Good Movie, Despite Some Historical Inaccuracies

This movie pretty much follows the sequence of events leading up to the arrest and conviction of Robert Edelman for hiring someone to murder his wife.However there are some inaccuracies. The actor playing Edelman looked nothing like him, although the character of the man was in line with the way he was said to be - high strung, aggressive, easily angered and disrespectful toward others.The background events leading up to the divorce are not mentioned in the movie. The couple had agreed to not have children when they married because they were of different religious beliefs. However, after a decade the wife converted to Edelman's religion, and then they had two children. But after three years, she returned to her parents Baptist faith, and this infuriated Edelman.But much of the movie was accurate, especially the parts with the private investigator hired by Edelman. Young even looked a lot like the actor playing him.
Reviewed by MarieGabrielle 6 / 10

Not bad for a true story...this film

was directed by Charles Correll, who also directed several other TV suspense movies, including "Into the Deep Woods" with Tony Perkins and Rosanna Arquette.Primarily it is the true story of Linda Edelman, whose husband plotted to have her killed. Not a novel idea. But Cheryl Ladd is pleasant to watch, she is usually very believable in these roles, which is more than can be said for Jameson Parker, who portrays the abusive husband.For some reason I am thinking Gerald McRaney would have been better in this movie, because he is a better actor, or perhaps because he was the foil to Jameson Parker in TV's "Simon and Simon" detective series. Jameson Parker is simply too uptight really, to even act the part of a stuffed-shirt wife beater!.Matt Clark and Hope Lange, noted veteran actors, portray Ladd's parents. Matt Clark is particularly funny when he says at a restaurant: "I hate Italian food, it all tastes like pizza", as they are longtime Texas residents, born and bred.All in all, give the movie a chance. Ladd does well, it is not too soapy, and movies about spousal abuse at least send a valid message to the audience.
Reviewed by lavatch 7 / 10

Portrait of a Monster

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