Once You Meet a Stranger is a 1996 Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television is the television production arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Television Studios, it serves as a television production arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as Shameless on...

 thriller directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

Tommy Lee Wallace

Tommy Lee Wallace is an American film producer, director and screenwriter.He is best known for directing Halloween III: Season of the Witch and It.-Early life:...

. It is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...

's Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train (film)

Strangers on a Train is an American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith. It was shot in the autumn of 1950 and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman,...

. Yet in the remake the genders of the principal characters have been switched from male to female. It stars Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She is known for her roles in the films Bullitt , Airport , The Deep , Class , and the TV series Nip/Tuck in 2006...

 and premiered on CBS

CBS

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 on 25 September 1996.

Plot

A fading actress, Sheila (Bisset) finds consolation in a stranger, Margo (Russell) during her train journey. Sheila tells Margo of her desire to divorce her husband, and in turn Margo shares her hatred for her domineering mother. They jokingly suggest performing a murder on each other's behalf. But all too soon the joke becomes reality.

Cast

• Jacqueline Bisset
  Jacqueline Bisset
  Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She is known for her roles in the films Bullitt , Airport , The Deep , Class , and the TV series Nip/Tuck in 2006...
  
   as Sheila Gaines
• Theresa Russell
  Theresa Russell
  Theresa Russell is an American actress.-Biography:Russell was born Theresa Paup in San Diego, California, the daughter of Carole Platt and Jerry Russell Paup. She attended Burbank High School, but did not graduate. She married English film director Nicolas Roeg , in 1982...
  
   as Margo Anthony
• Mimi Kennedy
  Mimi Kennedy
  Mimi Kennedy is an American actress, author and activist.-Early life:Kennedy was born Mary Claire Kennedy in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Nancy Helen and Daniel Gerald Kennedy. She got her start in theater with the Rochester Community Players, appearing in Agatha Christie's "Spider Web"...
  
   as Connie
• Celeste Holm
  Celeste Holm
  Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performances in Come to the Stable and All About Eve...
  
   as Clara
• Richard Doyle
  Richard Doyle (actor)
  Richard Doyle , sometimes credited as Richard Doyal, is an American actor and voice actor.- Early life :Richard Doyle was born in 1945 in Brockton, Massachusetts...
  
   as Mr. Anthony
• Robert Desiderio
  Robert Desiderio
  Robert Desiderio is an American actor best known for his television roles.Desiderio was born in New York City, New York, the son of Mary and Anthony J. Desiderio. He first came to prominence in soap opera, with parts in daytime dramas such as Search for Tomorrow, Ryan's Hope and One Life to Live...
  
   as Andy Stahl
• Kathryne Dora Brown
  Kathryne Dora Brown
  Kathryne Dora Brown is an American actress.Born in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of actor Georg Stanford Brown and actress Tyne Daly. Her uncle is actor Tim Daly.-Feature films:-Television:-Theatre:...
  
   as Skeptic
• Nick Mancuso
  Nick Mancuso
  Nicodemo Antonio Massimo "Nick" Mancuso is a Canadian cinema and stage actor.-Career:Mancuso was born in Mammola, Calabria, Italy and immigrated to Canada in 1956...
  
  as Aaron