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* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Dempsey faked having his legs disabled so he could murder Gail while standing so that he wouldn't be suspected]]. [[note]]Tragic Irony, Reeves was paralyzed for real ''six days'' after the film's release[[/note]]

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* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Dempsey faked having his legs disabled so he could murder Gail while standing so that he wouldn't be suspected]]. [[note]]Tragic Irony, Reeves Reeve was paralyzed for real ''six days'' after the film's release[[/note]]
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* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Dempsey faked having his legs disabled so he could murder Gail while standing so that he wouldn't be suspected]]. [[note]Tragic Irony, Reeves was paralyzed for real ''six days'' after the film's release[[/note]]

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* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Dempsey faked having his legs disabled so he could murder Gail while standing so that he wouldn't be suspected]]. [[note]Tragic [[note]]Tragic Irony, Reeves was paralyzed for real ''six days'' after the film's release[[/note]]
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* AFamilyAffair: Gail is having an affair with Dempsey's brother, Nick. [[spoiler:Nick ends up killing them both and successfully spinning it as self-defense]].

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* AFamilyAffair: Gail is having an affair with Dempsey's brother, Nick. [[spoiler:Nick [[spoiler:Dempsey ends up killing them both and successfully spinning it as self-defense]].
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* AFamilyAffair: Gail is having an affair with Dempsey's brother Nick. [[spoiler:Nick ends up killing them both and successfully spinning it as self-defense]].

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* AFamilyAffair: Gail is having an affair with Dempsey's brother brother, Nick. [[spoiler:Nick ends up killing them both and successfully spinning it as self-defense]].
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* AFamilyAffair: Gail is having an affair with Dempsey's brother Nick. [[spoiler:Nick ends up killing them both and successfully spinning it as self-defense]].
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A 1995 American MadeForTVMovie Crime Thriller directed by Creator/StevenSchachter that has a paralyzed former cop (Creator/ChristopherReeve) plotting his revenge on his unfaithful wife (Creator/KimCattrall) and her lover (Creator/EdwardKerr).

The movie also stars Creator/JoeMantegna, Creator/GeoffreyRivas, Creator/FinolaHughes, Creator/WilliamHMacy, Creator/RonCanada, Creator/NatalijaNogulich, Creator/ClarkGregg, Creator/BlakeFoster, Creator/JoannaMiles, and Creator/MartyLevy.

It aired on Creator/{{HBO}} on May 21, 1995.

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* AlliterativeFamily: Dempsey and his son, Damon.
* DisabilityAlibi: Dempsey Cain is a police officer who is shot and paralyzed from the waist down. He uses this as a means to get away with murdering people who wronged him because no one can prove a wheelchair-bound man is capable of it. [[spoiler:It's revealed his disability is faked, though]].
* ModestyBedsheet: When Nick and Gail are having sex under the covers that fall to their waists when [[InterruptedIntimacy they're interrupted by the sound of his pager going off]], Gail then starts reading a book topless before they resume their lovemaking. Nick then gets completely under the blankets and pulls them up to Gail's neck.
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Dempsey faked having his legs disabled so he could murder Gail while standing so that he wouldn't be suspected]]. [[note]Tragic Irony, Reeves was paralyzed for real ''six days'' after the film's release[[/note]]
* {{Tagline}}: "One cop is too hot, one cop is too cool, and one of them will commit the perfect murder".

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