The Cool Surface is a 1994 thriller film starring Robert Patrick

Robert Patrick

Robert Hammond Patrick, Jr. is an American actor, known for his leading and supporting roles in a number of films and television shows....

, Teri Hatcher

Teri Hatcher

Teri Lynn Hatcher is an American actress, writer, and presenter. She is known for her television roles as Susan Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and Lois Lane on the ABC comedy-drama series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman...

, Cyril O'Reilly

Cyril O'Reilly (Actor)

Cyril O'Reilly is an American film and television actor, writer and producer.O'Reilly was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Harriet O'Reilly. He has worked in Hollywood for nearly three decades, and is known for his role as a reluctant vampire in Dance of the Damned, and for his role as...

, Matt McCoy

Matt McCoy (actor)

Matt McCoy is an American actor.McCoy was born in Ohio. Since starring as Sgt. Nick Lassard in two Police Academy films, his motion picture credits have included the Curtis Hanson films The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and L.A. Confidential , as well as the action comedy National Security ...

, Shannon Dobson and Ian Buchanan

Ian Buchanan

Ian Buchanan is a Scottish television actor who appeared on the soap opera All My Children as Dr. Greg Madden.His first major work in the United States was playing the characters Duke Lavery on the soap General Hospital from 1986 to 1989, and Ian McFyfer in series three and four of the comedy...

. It was written and directed by Erik Anjou.

Plot

A writer returns to Hollywood after finishing his novel in the wilderness. Still smarting from his girlfriend's suicide and his publisher's criticisms of his novel, he becomes intrigued by the neighbor couple's abusive relationship. Eventually he intervenes and becomes involved with the girl, basing a new book on their increasingly violent relationship sparked by his insane jealousy of her friends and her acting career.