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"Letter To My Killer" starts out strong with a cash starved, sympathetic, couple trying blackmail to solve their financial woes. Finding a thirty year old letter that implicates three high level executives in a murder and cover-up, Nick Chinlund and Mare Winningham put the bite on Rip Torn and his cohorts. What follows is a prolonged cat and mouse game between the puny and the powerful. Along the way, Torn deploys various methods to rid himself of his meek adversaries. Unfortunately, believability begins to wane as the story progresses, especially as relates to a couple of Wisconsin deer hunters who happen to pop up at convenient times to save the day. - MERK

This movie is not too bad. The idea is very good and the acting is fine. There are no real interesting turns in the story, yet I found myself involved in the plot and caring where it would all end. Could have been better, but for a late-nite TV movie it was entertaining.

It could have been a good movie if it had been directed by Hitchcock, for example. The story had some potential. But Hitchcock had not been available for 15 years, being busy directing films in another dimension. The result, a hard-to-watch film, despite Rip Torn being a very good actor, who was in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV Series 1955-1962. Mare Winningham, good actress too.

This is a poorly produced movie with huge plot holes and rifle toting characters that disappear at the climax. Good actors are wasted by a bad script and poorly executed sequences. Don't waste your time. The producers should be ashamed of themselves for this one.