Murder Ordained

185 minutes

5/3/1987

Overview

This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also has affairs, and whose husband is unwilling to divorce her. One day the minister's wife is found dead, in what appears to be an auto accident, but the highway patrolman who investigated the accident doesn't think that it's an accident but doesn't have enough evidence to justify an investigation. Later, when the woman's husband is killed an investigation begins.

Cast List

Keith Carradine
as Trooper John Rule
JoBeth Williams
as Lorna Anderson
Kathy Bates
as Bobbi Birk
Guy Boyd
as Mike Buckley
Terence Knox
as Martin Anderson
Darrell Larson
as Ronald Stark
John Goodman
as Hugh Rayburn
Annabella Price
as Sandy Bird
Robert Harper
as Warren
Margot Rose
as Nancy Horst
M. Emmet Walsh
as Vern Humphrey
Terry Kinney
as Tom Bird
Anne E. Curry
as Loraine Rule
Bruce French
as Bruce Linton
Lee Garlington
as Lorna's Friend
Johnny Galecki
as Doug Rule
Ben Stephenson
as Canoeist (uncredited)
Don Hood
as Sergeant Clayton
George McDaniel
as Duane Stark
Jason Barnhill
as Jason Rule
Pat Billingsley
as Ray
Terry Bozeman
as Kevin Lloyd
Larry Brandenburg
as Judge
Robert Britton
Joel Colodner
as Simon Long
Nathan Davis
as Doctor
Darrell Fetty
as Bagwell
Patricia Gaul
as Paulette
Meg Gibson
as Cheryl
Lee Kessler
as Helen
Michael Krawic
as Bird's Lawyer
William Kuhlke
Tony Lincoln
Holmes Osborne
as TV Evangelist
Mike Pniewski
as Shanks
Chelcie Ross
as Detective
Ned Schmidtke
as Jeff Ellis
Mary Seibel
as June Post
Ann Whitney
Hillary Wolf
as Holly Anderson
James Anthony
as Phillip Jordan
Peter Bakely
as Umpire
Drew Dimmel
as TV Reporter
Herk Harvey
as Jury Foreman
John Stefano
as Birds' Neighbor
Ben Stephenson
as Canoeist