
The Operative(2019)
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.


“To write the perfect novel, she needed a touch of Grace.”
A bestselling female novelist, suffering from writer's block, hires an innocent young woman to watch over her twin children. As the novelist dangerously indulges in her new best seller, the line between the life she's writing and the one she's living becomes blurred.

Kristin Davis
Mary Morrison

Dermot Mulroney
Tom Morrison

Shanola Hampton
Elaine

Lora Martinez-Cunningham
Andrea Miller

Greer Grammer
Grace

Grayson Berry
Detective Newheart

Marie Wagenman
Alexandra Morrison

Olivia Taylor
Nanny #3

Jean Effron
Librarian

Ellen Humphreys
Angela Huntsman
Deadly Illusions is a thriller, drama film released in 2021. Directed by Anna Elizabeth James, it stars Kristin Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Shanola Hampton. A bestselling female novelist, suffering from writer's block, hires an innocent young woman to watch over her twin children. As the novelist dangerously indulges in her new best seller, the line between the life she's writing and the one she's living becomes blurred.
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