Intimate Strangers (1977 film)

Intimate Strangers alternative title Battered is a 1977 madeforTV drama film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, and written and produced by Richard and Esther Shapiro.

Donald Halston Dennis Weaver loses a policy at work, leading to a financial setback. He takes out this personal and financial humiliation on his loving wife Janice Sally Struthers. After a fight over her daily spendings, he accidentally pushes her, causing her to spill coffee over herself. He immediately apologizes, and Janice does not wait long before forgiving him. The next morning, she runs into an old friend Karen Renshaw Tyne Daly, who once left town for Florida but is now working as a drafts woman. They quickly become best friends.Donald, meanwhile, is convinced by his colleague and friend Mort Burns Larry Hagman to give him company on a nights out with two attractive women. Donald spends the night with one of the women and cheats on his wife. He returns home at night to a worried Janice, though instead of apologizing, he admits to his unloyalty in a rage, and starts beating her when she gets mad at him for the affair. The police quickly arrive due to complaints of neighbors, though Janice lies about the situation to protect her husband. ........

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