
Careful What You Wish For(2015)
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.


“An ex-cop haunted by his past, his murder and his future.”
A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of his mistress who may have been linked to some drug dealers.

Tom Berenger
Dr. Ernest Dewalt

Valeria Golino
Elizabeth Laughton

Kari Wührer
Jeri Gillen

Robert Davi
Trooper Larry Abbott

Richard Edson
Rodney Gillen

Stephen Lang
Alex Laughton

Danny Comden
Craig Fox

Ellen Greene
Della

Geoffrey Lewis
Draper Jewett
Trenton McDevitt
Male Student (as Trent McDevitt)
An Occasional Hell is a drama, thriller film released in 1996 exploring themes of widow, murder, disappearance, woman director. Directed by Salomé Breziner, it stars Tom Berenger, Valeria Golino, Kari Wührer. A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of his mistress who may have been linked to some drug dealers.
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