Natural Enemies

Natural Enemies

6.0IMDb Score
Released:1979-11-01
Duration:100 min
Director:Jeff Kanew
Actors:Hal Holbrook, Louise Fletcher, Peter Armstrong, Elizabeth Berridge, José Ferrer
Production:Utopia

Overview:

Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, considers his life to be an empty failure. Awake one morning after a sleepless night, he comes to a decision: this evening he will take a rifle and shoot and kill his wife, their three children and then himself.

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