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The People Across the Lake

The People Across the Lake

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The People Across the Lake

1988

1h 39m

6.0(21 votes)

Horror

TV Movie

Thriller

Overview

In an effort to get away from the city and all its crime, Chuck Yoman and his family move to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town. The discovery of a mutilated corpse in the lake and another body in the woods, however, suggests that the Yomans would have been safer if they had stayed put...

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Columbia Pictures Television

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Valerie Harper

Valerie Harper

Rachel Yoman

Gerald McRaney

Gerald McRaney

Chuck Yoman

Barry Corbin

Barry Corbin

Malcolm Bryce

Tammy Lauren

Tammy Lauren

Lisa Yoman

Daryl Anderson

Daryl Anderson

Henry Link

Jeff Kizer

John Bryce

Gary Bisig

Gregory Togel

Steven "Stevie" Yoman

Dorothy Lyman

Dorothy Lyman

Ruth Mortimer

Thomas Peacocke

Sheriff Boignton

Creative team

Directed by: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Written by: Bill McCutchen
Dalene Young
Produced by: Richard L. O'Connor

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