A "steamy thriller" with the dubious enticement of supporting performances by comic actors Harvey Korman and Alan Thicke, BETRAYAL OF THE DOVE turns out to be a direct-to-video fowl of a different sort. This turkey does little but deliver strange turns from a cast of celebrity names who
had, apparently, nothing better to do that week.
Winsome Ellie West (Helen Slater) is separated from husband Jack (Thicke), a menacing, philandering alcoholic. When Ellie enters the hospital for a tonsilectomy she senses danger to her and daughter Autumn (Heather Lind). Fortunately gallant Dr. Jesse Peter (Billy Zane) is the attending
physician, and he heroically pulls Ellie b...
Released:
1993
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins