Synopsis
After the mysterious demise of a client, private detective Donald Strachey infiltrates a therapy group for gay people who want to become straight. He takes on the group's founder to prove that his client's death was not a suicide.
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Cast
- Chad AllenDonald Strachey
- Sebastian SpenceTimmy Callahan
- Michael WoodsDr. Trevor Cornell
- Morgan FairchildPhyllis Hale
- Daryl ShuttleworthDetective Bailey
- Anne Marie DeLuiseLynn Cornell
- Stephen HuszarGrey
- Nelson WongKenny Kwon
- Ryan KennedyWalter
- Shawn RobertsLarry
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
Enough action, a tiny pinch of sex and some campy moments from Morgan Fairchild. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
The story delivers enough twists and turns to be engaging without feeling like work, and the overall vibe is dangerous and flirty rather than brutal or excessively graphic. - 60
The New York Times
A sly, refreshingly grown-up gay entertainment, though rather less satisfying as a thriller. - 50
Village Voice
Director Ron Oliver applies a thin veneer of straight-to-cable pseudo-gloss without finding a workable tone, and the cast lacks the charisma and chemistry to make the genre and gender-bending register as more than novelty. - 50
Los Angeles Times
So grimly determined to be even-handed that it never generates tension. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Shock to the System demonstrates that merely subverting genre conventions doesn't quite make for compelling entertainment.
