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Black Widow is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Armand Mastroianni released in USA on 8 december 2008 with Elizabeth Berkley
Black Widow (2008)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 8 december 2008
Length 1h25
Directed by Armand Mastroianni
OriginUSA
Themes Serial killer films
Rating49%
Black Widow is a 2007 made-for-television movie produced by RHI Entertainment and starring Elizabeth Berkley, Alicia Coppola and Adriana DeMeo. It is loosely based on the 1987 film of the same name starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell.
Black Widow re-unites Elizabeth Berkley and Randall Batinkoff, who starred together four years previously in the action thriller The Detonator. Adriana DeMeo stars in crime series Without a Trace, for which Elizabeth Berkley has made a notable special guest appearance.
The film was originally released in 2007, before being re-cut and re-released in 2008 under the title Dark Beauty.
Synopsis
Olivia (Elizabeth Berkley), is young, beautiful, brilliant, and effortlessly charming. She is a dedicated charity worker, responsible for establishing free clinics across the country for poor women. When she meets millionaire Danny Keegan (Randall Batinkoff), the pair soon form a relationship and he falls for her. However, it soon becomes clear that not everyone admires Olivia. Danny’s college friend, Melanie (Alicia Coppola), a photo journalist for the Los Angeles Post, thinks that there is something suspicious about Olivia and soon wants to learn more about the mysterious woman.Actors
Elizabeth Berkley
(Olivia Whitfield / Grace Miller)
Alicia Coppola
(Melanie Dempsey)
Jeremy Howard
(Henry)
Brady Smith
(Lucas Miller)
Randall Batinkoff
(Danny Keegan)
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