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Dead Before Dawn

Dead Before Dawn
Release date: 1993-01-09
Rating: 4.3
Votes: 16
Genres: Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
Based upon a true story. Wife with young family finds life becoming unbearable with her successful, but violent and abusive, husband. After filing for divorce, she quickly learns that her husband, through fear of his personal life embarrassing his clients, has commissioned an assassin to murder her before going to court. Unfortunately, for him, the hired assassin turns out to be an FBI agent. The FBI convince her that she must “pretend” to have been murdered in order to prove her husband’s involvement.

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