Between Love and Hate (1993 film)

Between Love and Hate is a 1993 American television movie directed by Rod Hardy.

Between Love and Hate
Genre	Crime Drama
Written by	D. Victor Hawkins Tom Nelson Rebecca Whittington
Directed by	Rod Hardy
Starring	Susan Lucci Barry Bostwick Patrick Van Horn
Music by	Charles Bernstein
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	John Cosgrove
Producer	Jay Benson
Cinematography	David Connell
Editor	Richard Bracken
Running time	89 minutes
Production companies	Cosgrove/Meurer Productions World International Network
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	February 22, 1993 (1993-02-22)

Background

Between Love and Hate was the ninth TV movie Lucci appeared in.^[1] Her role, a seductive married mother, was compared by several reviewers to Erica Kane, her famous role on the soap opera All My Children.^[2] Lucci said she took the role because of the "page-turner" script.^[3]

Plot

Matt, a 19-year-old swimming coach at a country club, who is a virgin, has an affair with Vivian, a married mother in her forties whose daughter is taking classes with him.

When her husband Justin finds out about the affair after finding the couple's love letters, Vivian is forced to end it, upsetting Matt. This results in a chain of reactions from photocopying of love letters leading up to Matt shooting her dead.

Cast

• Susan Lucci.....Vivian Conrad
• Barry Bostwick.....Justin Conrad
• Patrick Van Horn.....Matt Templeton

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune was somewhat positive on the film, writing that Lucci was "pretty good in her part."^[4] The Calgary Herald panned the film: as "an amateurish knockoff of The Graduate."