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Witness to the Execution is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tommy Lee Wallace released in USA on 13 february 1994 with Sean Young
Witness to the Execution (1994)
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Add to a movie listWitness to the Execution is a 1994 made-for-TV movie. Its plot concerns a fictional television network's desire to carry the live execution of a condemned killer as a pay-per-view event. It also portrays the events surrounding the attempt to create a television show about the execution. The movie stars Tim Daly and Sean Young.
Actors
Sean Young
(Jessica Traynor)
Timothy Daly
(Dennis Casterline)
Len Cariou
(Jake Tyler)
George Newbern
(Phillip Tyler)
Dee Wallace
(Emily Dawson (as Dee Wallace-Stone))
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