
Once You Meet a Stranger
This television remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) follows the same story, but has changed the genders of the lead characters from male to female. Sheila Gaines is a former child star whose first husband is unwilling to give her a divorce. A chance meeting with Margo Anthony on a train leads to a conversation where the mentally unstable Margo, who hates her mother, suggests that they swap murders, so as to solve their problems. Although she thinks nothing of the conversation, Sheila's life takes a surprising turn when her husband is murdered by Margo. Now Margo wants Sheila to do her part of "the deal." With the police on her tail and Margo constantly in her face, Sheila must find a way out of this tangled web.
Release Date: 1996-09-25
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Casts

Jacqueline Bisset
as Sheila Gaines

Nick Mancuso
as Aaron

Theresa Russell
as Margo Anthony

Art Bonilla
as Porter

Kathryne Dora Brown
as Skeptic

Celeste Holm
as Clara

Mimi Kennedy
as Connie

Richard Doyle
as Mr. Anthony

Robert Desiderio
as Andy Stahl

Anne Gee Byrd
as Judge Lea Cole