# Telling Secrets > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Telling_Secrets > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Telling_Secrets.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_Secrets > Source revision: 1357138860 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) For the book by Frederick Buechner, see [Telling Secrets (memoir)](/source/Telling_Secrets_(memoir)). 1993 American TV series or program Telling Secrets Screenplay by Jennifer Miller Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky Starring Cybill Shepherd Theme music composer Mark Snow Country of origin United States Original language English Production Producers Jennifer Miller Dan Witt Cinematography Isidore Mankofsky Editor Anita Brandt Burgoyne Running time 240 minutes Production companies Patchett Kaufman Entertainment World International Network Original release Network ABC Release January 17, 1993 (1993-01-17) ***Telling Secrets*** (a.k.a. *Contract for Murder*) is a 1993 American [television film](/source/Television_film) directed by [Marvin J. Chomsky](/source/Marvin_J._Chomsky) and starring [Cybill Shepherd](/source/Cybill_Shepherd).[1] It is based on the true story of Joy Aylor, who plots the murder of her adulterous husband's mistress.[2] ## Cast - [Cybill Shepherd](/source/Cybill_Shepherd) as Faith Kelsey - [Ken Olin](/source/Ken_Olin) as Det. Jay Jensen - [James McCaffrey](/source/James_McCaffrey_(actor)) as Jackson Merrick - [Christopher McDonald](/source/Christopher_McDonald) as Terry Kelsey - [Gary Grubbs](/source/Gary_Grubbs) as Det. Ron Taylor - [Andrew Robinson](/source/Andrew_Robinson_(actor)) as Dr. Phillip Eckhart - [G.D. Spradlin](/source/G.D._Spradlin) as Walter Jefferson - [Dylan Walsh](/source/Dylan_Walsh) as Jesse Graham - [Melora Walters](/source/Melora_Walters) as Karen Blake - [Mary Kay Place](/source/Mary_Kay_Place) as Shelley Jefferson Carp - [Anne Haney](/source/Anne_Haney) as Grace Jefferson - [Lynn Milgrim](/source/Lynn_Milgrim) as Gloria Marsh - [Ann Risley](/source/Ann_Risley) as Sally DeVries - [Nick Young](/source/Nick_Young_(actor)) as Highway Patrolman (uncredited) ## Reception David Hiltbrand of *[People](/source/People_(magazine))* graded the film a B.[3] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Loynd, Ray (16 January 1993). ["TV REVIEWS : For Cybill Shepherd, 'Telling Secrets' of a Femme Fatale"](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-16-ca-1150-story.html?_amp=true). *[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)*. Retrieved 4 July 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["True crime: The Lake Highlands mom and the hit man"](https://lakehighlands.advocatemag.com/2014/03/true-crime-lake-highlands-mom-hit-man). *lakehighlands.advocatemag.com*. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Hiltbrand, David (18 January 1993). ["Picks and Pans Review: Telling Secrets"](https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-telling-secrets-vol-39-no-2/). [People](/source/People_(magazine)). Retrieved 4 July 2020. ## External links - [*Telling Secrets*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108310/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Marvin J. Chomsky Assault on the Wayne (1971) Evel Knievel (1971) Mongo's Back in Town (1971) Fireball Forward (1972) Family Flight (1972) Mrs. Sundance (1974) Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975) A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975) Murph the Surf (1975) Mackintosh and T.J. (1975) Brink's: The Great Robbery (1976) Victory at Entebbe (1976) Little Ladies of the Night (1977) Holocaust (1978) Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979) Attica (1980) My Body, My Child (1982) Inside the Third Reich (1982) I Was a Mail Order Bride (1982) Tank (1984) The Deliberate Stranger (1986) Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) Billionaire Boys Club (1987) I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988) Brotherhood of the Rose (1989) Telling Secrets (1993) Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story (1993) Catherine the Great (1995) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Telling Secrets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_Secrets) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_Secrets?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.