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'''''Facing the Enemy''''' is a [[2001 in film|2001]] American [[erotic film|erotic]] [[thriller film]] starring [[Linden Ashby]], [[Maxwell Caulfield]], and [[Alexandra Paul]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Craddock |first=Jim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRnQWgtuSKAC&q=Facing+the+Enemy%C2%A0Linden+Ashby |title=VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever |date=2004 |publisher=Thomson/Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-7470-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Facing the Enemy |url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/facing-the-enemy/2000110943/ |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}}</ref> The film was directed by Robert Malenfant and produced by [[Anita Gershman]]. The film is also known as '''''Dead Wrong'''''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lumiere |url=https://lumiere.obs.coe.int/movie/214686 |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=lumiere.obs.coe.int}}</ref>

==Premise==
Detective Griffin "Griff" McCleary's son Kevin McCleary shoots himself with Griff's gun. A year later both he and his wife are still reeling from it. Griff feeling shut out by his wife Olivia, decides to move out. Now he is investigating what appears to be a murder a [[murder-suicide]]. He believes that there is no [[suicide]]. His investigation leads to a girl named Nikki Mayhew. It seems that Nikki is [[wikt:fragile|fragile]] and has not had much luck with men. When Griff helps her, she asks if she could stay with Griff, after she and Griff sleep together, she learns that he is a cop and that he has been following her, shattered Nikki shoots herself. Griff is then [[Suspension (punishment)|suspended]] from the force. But he is unaware that her partner-lover Harlan Moss, wanting to get back at Griff, Harlan is pursuing Griff's [[Family estrangement|estranged]] wife Olivia. Who is vulnerable after hearing what happened between Griff and Nikki.

==Cast==
* [[Linden Ashby]] as Detective Griffin "Griff" McCleary
* [[Alexandra Paul]] as Olivia McCleary
* [[Maxwell Caulfield]] as Harlan Moss
* [[Cynthia Preston]] as Nikki Mayhew
* [[Melanie Wilson (actress)|Melanie Wilson]] as Cassie Iver
* [[Bruce Weitz]] as Lieutenant Carl Runyon
* [[Max Gail]] as Thomas Galloway
* Christopher Comes as Benny Janovic
* [[June Chadwick]] as Irene Spellman
* Patricia Harty as Sandra Galloway
* Greg Fitzpatrick as Brett
* Judith Montgomery as Dolly Dixon
* Dyllan Christopher as Kevin McCleary
* Emmett Shoemaker as Jeff
* Anne Welles as Anita
* Christopher Kriesa as Detective Stewart
* Ron Smith as The Man On The Street (uncredited)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0267414}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|facing_the_enemy}}

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