Five Desperate Hours

In seconds, their paths crossed. In hours, their lives changed.

Five Desperate Hours — Plot

Joseph Grange (Giancarlo Esposito), an unstable fugitive from the law, bursts into the home of suburban housewife Claire Ballard (Sharon Lawrence), and an intense hostage drama begins. Desperate to save her life, Claire initiates a dialogue with Grange as a trigger-happy SWAT team waits outside poised to storm the house. Claire, herself the product of a troubled past, begins to identify with the tormented Grange and, over five tension-filled hours, victim and captor forge an unlikely bond.

• Release date
• October 5, 1997
• Runtime
• 90 min
• Genres
• Crime, Thriller, TV Movie
• Director
• Dan Lerner

Five Desperate Hours — Cast

Sharon Lawrence Clair Ballard Giancarlo Esposito Joseph Grange Daniel Hugh Kelly Jim Ballard Rocky Carroll Lt. Frank Early Doug Abrahams Cop #5 Garry Chalk Capt. Durk Brent Stait Danbury

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