Christopher Stone

Killer Instinct -- A man finds himself the hostage of an engaging hit man with moral issues, as he may become his unwitting last victim.

A moving and compelling story about a troubled man and his professional carers. An idealistic psychiatrist battles hospital bureaucracy, the law and ignorance in order to give her patients the critical care and treatment they deserve. The most desperate of her patients is Freddie, a tortured young man whose shattered past has set him on a deadly path of violence and anger. Hampered at every turn by an oppressive system, Dr Lisa DaVito's only ally is the hospital's legal services counsellor, Charlie Long, and together they struggle to save Freddie from his dark impulses and an overburdened system that sees him as just another case. In the end, one tragic incident seals Freddie's fate and shakes Dr DaVito's faith in both her profession and her ability to help those most in need. Thought-provoking and controversial, Killer Instinct is a hard-hitting examination of a public mental health care system in crisis.

Jacqueline Bisset ("The Deep," "Murder on the Orient Express") stars in this dramatic story of one young woman's odyssey from innocence to decadence. She leaves British Columbia with her boyfriend at age 19, young and pretty and hopeful for a career in show business. But a detour to Las Vegas leads her into a life that by 22, no one would envy. Jim Brown ("The Dirty Dozen") and Joseph Cotten ("Citizen Kane," "Gaslight") co-star, with a quick cameo by Penny Marshall ("Laverne and Shirley"). A compelling feature from television director Jerry Paris ("Happy Days").

Christine Adams, at 19, leaves her small town to follow her boy-friend to L.A., where he works for a bank, to live with him and have babies. He's not keen on a baby right away, so she heads for Las Vegas where she gets a job as a show girl.