Appointment with Death (1988)

Directors

Michael Winner

Cast

Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove, David Soul, Nicholas Guest, Valerie Richards

The story

Emily Boynton, stepmother to the three Boynton children – Lennox, Raymond, and Carol – and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying her late husband's second will that would split his fortune between her and his children, leaving them $200,000 each, freeing them from her controlling presence. The original will leaves all of the Boynton fortune to Emily, only splitting it evenly amongst the children upon her death. She takes the stepchildren and Nadine, Lennox's wife who serves as Emily's nurse, on holiday to Europe.

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