When a woman's emotions sway away on a slender thread, expect anything…
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?
- Suicide or self-harm
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and intimate.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Sidney PoitierAlan Newell
- Anne BancroftInga Dyson
- Telly SavalasDr. Joe Coburn
- Steven HillMark Dyson
- Ed AsnerDet. Judd Ridley
- Indus ArthurMarian
- Paul NewlanSgt. Harry Ward
- Dabney ColemanCharlie
- H.M. WynantDoctor Morris
- Robert F. HoyPatrolman Steve Peters
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- Sydney PollackDirector
- Stirling SilliphantWriter
- Loyal GriggsDirector of Photography
- Quincy JonesOriginal Music Composer
- Thomas StanfordEditor
- Stephen AlexanderProducer
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