these kind of movie where a psycho of one variety or another try to damage the reputation ( and eventually eliminate altogether ) some naive person in order to take over their life . fatal attraction and pacific height and the hand that rock the cradle and single white female and and a thousand make for tv movie be some example of this . but while a few and especially fatal attraction and pacific height could offer at least some extremely paranoid and suspenseful character or a few plot twist and unlawful entry play everything by the book . and be it not for the notoriety of it star ( kurt russel and ray liota and and madeline stowe ) and this movie would sink to mediocrity faster than a danielle steele miniseries . russel play michael carr and an incessantly naive guy who call on the help of a pair of officer when someone break into his house and try to attack his wife ( madeline stowe ) . unfortunately and he quietly vent his anger about feel so helpless in the situation to the wrong cop ( ray liotta ) and a typically psychopathic villain with no limit for his power . at first empathize with carr ( probably only pretend to do so ) and the cop befriend the couple . but soon enough and the cop want carr out of the way so and destroy the guys life nearly any way he can ( which be pretty easy when youre a cop and and when youre the cop who have instal the guy security system in his house ) in order to take over and presumably and get his wife . it seem less end orient and and more like the cop just want to prove his power . the wife be more like a trophy and in other word and than an end . and the story play out entirely by the book and you can probably predict every occurrence before it happen on the screen if you have see enough of these movie . from the shock moment our main and naive character realizes he be a victim of credit card fraud ( perpetrate by the psychopathic villain ) to the turn around he not really dead finale .