Jeff Fahey
Det. Jack Whitfield
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Jeff Fahey plays a sketch artist who, while sketching a murder suspect with a witness (Drew Barrymore), realizes the killer might be his own wife (Sean Young). He changes the sketch and inadvertently draws another woman he encountered near the murder scene (Stacy Haiduk), implicating her in the murder.
A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willing to believe she was responsible, he resketches the pictures so they don't look like her, and he begins his own investigation of the murder.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Phedon Papamichael
- 1992-06-27
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, also known as The Sketch Artist, is a 1992 American made-for-television crime-thriller film written by Michael Angeli and directed by Phedon Papamichael and starring Jeff Fahey, Sean Young and Drew Barrymore. It was released theatrically in Canada, Sweden and South Korea.
During a homicide investigation, a police sketch artist realizes a witness is describing a suspect resembling the artist, Jack Whitfield's wife down to the last detail. Conflicted by this revelation, he withholds pertinent information and begins his own search for the truth.
•Jeff Fahey as Detective Jack Whitfield
•Sean Young as Rayanne Whitfield
•Frank McRae as Milon
•Drew Barrymore as Daisy
•Tchéky Karyo as Paul Korbel
•James Tolkan as Tonelli
A sequel starring Fahey and Courteney Cox, Sketch Artist II: Hands That See, followed in 1995.
1.Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1997. ISBN 0452279143.
2.Young Hollywood. Batsford, 1994. ISBN 0713472669.
A police sketch artist is brought in on a murder case in which he realizes the woman fleeing the scene of the crime is his wife. He covers it up, then gets so embroiled in the case that he too becomes a suspect.
Sketch Artist is a film directed by Phedon Papamichael with Jeff Fahey, Sean Young, Drew Barrymore, Frank McRae .... Year: 1992. Original title: Sketch Artist. Synopsis: Sketch artist for the police Jack Whitfeld helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife.
A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willing to believe she was responsible, he resketches the pictures so they don't look like her, and he begins his own investigation of the murder.
