Murder Ordained
1987This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also has affairs, and whose husband is unwilling to divorce her. One day the minister's wife is found dead, in what appears to be an auto accident, but the highway patrolman who investigated the accident doesn't think that it's an accident but doesn't have enough evidence to justify an investigation. Later, when the woman's husband is killed an investigation begins.
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Keith Carradine
as Trooper John Rule
JoBeth Williams
as Lorna Anderson
Kathy Bates
as Bobbi Birk
Guy Boyd
as Mike Buckley
Terence Knox
as Martin Anderson
Darrell Larson
as Ronald Stark
John Goodman
as Hugh Rayburn
Annabella Price
as Sandy Bird
Robert Harper
as Warren
Margot Rose
as Nancy Horst
M. Emmet Walsh
as Vern Humphrey
Terry Kinney
as Tom Bird
Anne E. Curry
as Loraine Rule
Bruce French
as Bruce Linton
Lee Garlington
as Lorna's Friend
Johnny Galecki
as Doug Rule
Ben Stephenson
as Canoeist (uncredited)