The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion

Annabelle Apsion

Annabelle Apsion is an English actress, best known for playing Monica Gallagher in the hit television comedy-drama Shameless, which she played intermittently between 2004 and 2006, before becoming a regular cast member for the show's fourth series in 2007. She left the show in 2008 in order to...

, Alun Armstrong

Alun Armstrong (actor)

Alun Armstrong is a prolific British character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of...

, David Morrissey

David Morrissey

David Mark Morrissey is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool, and learned to act at the city's Everyman Youth Theatre. At the age of 18, he was cast in the television series One Summer , which won him recognition throughout the country...

 and Kenneth Walsh. The film deals with a woman who's husband has been arrested after going on a killing rampage and the reaction of her local community. It was produced In the United Kingdom by Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television, more commonly known as Central is the Independent Television contractor for the Midlands, created following the restructuring of ATV and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc, under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting...

 for the ITV Network and aired on 29 December 1990. It received a nomination for Best Single Drama at the 1991 BAFTA Awards

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...

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Plot summary

The film focuses on Kathy (Apsion) who is forced to face the hostility of her local community after her husband is revealed as a brutal spree killer

Spree killer

A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous assault on two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders."-Definition:According to the...

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Cast

• Annabelle Apsion
  Annabelle Apsion
  Annabelle Apsion is an English actress, best known for playing Monica Gallagher in the hit television comedy-drama Shameless, which she played intermittently between 2004 and 2006, before becoming a regular cast member for the show's fourth series in 2007. She left the show in 2008 in order to...
  
   - Kathy
• Alun Armstrong
  Alun Armstrong (actor)
  Alun Armstrong is a prolific British character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of...
  
   - Dad
• David Morrissey
  David Morrissey
  David Mark Morrissey is an English actor and director. Morrissey grew up in the Kensington and Knotty Ash areas of Liverpool, and learned to act at the city's Everyman Youth Theatre. At the age of 18, he was cast in the television series One Summer , which won him recognition throughout the country...
  
   - Rob
• Kenneth Welsh
  Kenneth Welsh
  Kenneth Welsh, CM is a Canadian film and television actor . He is known to Twin Peaks fans as the multi-faceted villain Windom Earle, and has more recently played the father of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.In 1984 he was nominated for a Genie Award as Best Actor for his...
  
   - Atkinson
• Helen Anderson - Troy
• Hugh Armstrong
  Hugh Armstrong
  Hugh Armstrong was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1892 to 1896 and from 1902 to 1915, and was a senior cabinet minister in the government of Rodmond P. Roblin...
  
   - Michael Finch
• Al Ashton - Mr. Wilding
• Charlotte Barker
  Charlotte Barker
  Charlotte Barker is a British actress.She was born to British comedian Ronnie Barker and Joy Tubb.Charlotte has worked mostly for television where she gave her debut in the 1985 film Frankie and Johnnie by Martin Campbell...
  
   - Vicky Pierce
• Sydnee Blake - Grieving Mother
• Kate Byers - Junior Police Officer
• Flaminia Cinque - Sally
• David Credell - Builder 3
• Richard Cubison
  Richard Cubison
  Richard Cubison is a British actor who has been active on television and in films since 1980.His first television role came in 1980 when he played a "heavy" in an episode of Minder...
  
   - Dr. Beloff
• Aaron Dawson - Tom
• Peter Guinness
  Peter Guinness (actor)
  Peter Guinness is a British film, television and theatre actor.-Career:He has appeared in over fifty television productions and over ten films...
  
   - Detective Sergeant Wills
• Jane Gurnett
  Jane Gurnett
  Jane Gurnett is a British actress best known for her leading roles in British TV series Casualty , Dangerfield and the second incarnation of Crossroads .-Career:...
  
   - Sharon
• Brian Hickey - Malcolm
• Caroline Holdaway - Teacher
• Colin Jeavons
  Colin Jeavons
  Colin Jeavons is a Welsh television actor.-Career:Jeavons is best known as Inspector Lestrade in the Granada television serials The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, or the part of the undertaker, Shadrack, in the television situation comedy written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from...
  
   - Mr. Crathew
• Karl Jenkinson - Builder 2
• Kate Lanson - Prostitute
• Mike Lunney - Housing Officer
• Gareth Marks - Barry
• Neale McGrath - Builder 1
• Eileen Nicholas - Mum
• James Ottaway - Mourner
• Gary Powell
  Gary Powell
  Gary Armstrong Powell is a British drummer. He is primarily the drummer for The Libertines, as well as doing the same for the band formed by his bandmate Carl Barat after the Libertines split, Dirty Pretty Things and Guyanese artist, Eddy Grant...
  
   - Journalist
• Bill Rourke - Minicab Driver
• Martin Sadler - Senior Police Officer
• Colin Simmonds - DHSS Officer
• Peter Williams
  Peter Williams
  Peter Williams is the name of:* Sir Peter Williams , former chairman of Oxford Instruments; Chancellor, University of Leicester* Peter Williams , New Zealand television presenter...
  
   - Philip Newsome
• Peter Llewellyn Williams - Philip Newsome
• Tessa Wojtczak - Sheila Barton