Memories of Murder is a 1990 action–crime television film starring Nancy Allen

Nancy Allen (actress)

Nancy Anne Allen is a Golden Globe nominated American actress and cancer activist.Allen began an acting and modelling career as a child, and from the mid-1970s appeared in small film roles, most notably the anchor of Robert Zemeckis's ensemble comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand...

, directed by Robert Lewis and written by John Harrison

John Harrison

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Memories of Murder is the first of many original films that would be produced for the Lifetime Television Network, and, due to its popularity, would subsequently be released on VHS and DVD on July 31, 1990. Musical personality Vanity

Vanity (performer)

Denise Katrina Matthews , better known as Vanity, but sometimes credited as Denise Matthews-Smith or D.D. Winters, is a Canadian-born former singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and model from the 1980s until the early mid-90s...

 co-stars. The film was shot in British Columbia

British Columbia

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Plot

Jennifer (Nancy Allen

Nancy Allen

Nancy Allen may refer to:* Nancy Allen * Nancy Allen -See also:* Nancy Allan , Manitoban politician...

) is a woman who is suffering from amnesia

Amnesia

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 to the extent that she does not even recognize her husband and daughter. Extremely confused and tormented, she desperately seeks to piece together her life and, in doing so, stumbles upon some startling secrets from her shadowy past. She discovers that a female killer connected to her from her earlier life is intent on stalking her and seeking revenge by killing her and her family.

Cast

• Nancy Allen
  Nancy Allen
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   as Jennifer Gordon/Corey
• Nick Benedict
  Nick Benedict
  Nick Benedict is an American actor. He played the role of Curtis Reed in Days of Our Lives between 1993 and 2001. He is the older half-brother of Samuel Benedict and the son of actor Richard Benedict. He made his debut in 1955 in the series Wiretapper as a child. His first performance as an adult...
  
   as Mr. Bates
• Olivia Brown
  Olivia Brown
  Olivia Margarette Brown is an American actress.Brown was born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Livonia, Michigan, United States. Her family eventually moved to California and she is also a graduate of Santa Monica High School. She played Det. Trudy Joplin on Miami Vice and Vanessa Hargraves on...
  
   as Brenda
• Linda Darlow
• Don S. Davis
  Don S. Davis
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• Jerome Eden as Store Manager
• Robyn Simons as Amy
• Robin Thomas
  Robin Thomas
  Robin Thomas is an American film and television actor.He was born Robin Thomas Grossman in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His best-known television roles are as Mark Singleton in the soap opera Another World , and as Geoffrey Wells on the 1980s series Who's the Boss?...
  
   as Michael
• Vanity
  Vanity (performer)
  Denise Katrina Matthews , better known as Vanity, but sometimes credited as Denise Matthews-Smith or D.D. Winters, is a Canadian-born former singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and model from the 1980s until the early mid-90s...
  
   as Carmen

Critical reception

Chris Willman of the Los Angeles Times

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called the film "amazingly pedestrian" in terms of its mystery. Daniel Ruth of the Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Sun-Times

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wrote that he "couldn't keep track" of what was happening in the plot. Ken Tucker of the Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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gave it a "D" grade, saying, "Memories of Murder is full of romance-novel dialogue".