Writing

Deborah Dalton

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Writing

Credits

14 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

Cobra poster
6.2

A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.

Cobra

1986

The Woman in Red poster
6.3

When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.

The Woman in Red

1984

Daddy poster
7.2

Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.

Daddy

1987

Two of a Kind poster
6.1

God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all over. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world by falling in love.

Two of a Kind

1983

Best Kept Secrets poster
7.3

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.

Best Kept Secrets

1984

On Fire poster
9.0

Joe is an arson investigator for the fire department. He has a loving and devoted wife and has two just as loving and devoted sons. Things couldn't be better for him until he learns that the department wants to retire him. He does so reluctantly. He then falls into a deep depression because, while most people look forward to retirement, he doesn't. So, his wife and children do their best to lift his spirits but all he does is push them away.

On Fire

1987

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