Facing the Enemy
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Facing the Enemy is a 2001 erotic thriller film starring Linden Ashby, Maxwell Caulfield, and Alexandra Paul. The film was directed by Robert Malenfant and produced by Anita Gershman.
Premise
Griff McCleary (Linden Ashby) is a cop, now his son shot 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 (Alexandra Paul), 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 (Cynthia Preston). It seems that Nikki is 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 suspended from the force. But he is unaware that her partner-lover Harlan Moss (Maxwell Caulfield), wanting to get back at Griff, Harlan is pursuing Griff's 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 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)