John Shea (1/95 See Jane Run)
Excerpt from Variety 1/5/95: John Shea | See Jane Run
Review: ‘Abc Sunday Night Movie’
January 5, 1995 | 11:00PM PT John P. McCarthy
Jane (Joanna Kerns) is first seen dazed and confused in a supermarket, suffering from amnesia. Her pockets are filled with hundred-dollar bills and her dress is bloody. She goes to a hospital and is given a diagnosis of severe trauma. Her husband, Michael (John Shea), a pediatric surgeon, arrives and takes her home. Michael oversees her recovery, hiring a young woman, Paula (Katy Boyer), to mind her and make sure she takes her medicine. It’s a classic set-up. Michael’s so perfect he must be guilty of something, but viewers can’t be sure. Is he lying to her? Is he plying her with narcotics? She’s haunted by flashbacks and nightmares. Did she kill someone? Did she have an affair with her neighbor? When Jane starts to recover, Michael tries to push her over the edge. After a knock on the head restores her memory, she does some detective work and pieces things together.
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Dashing and sincere, Shea turns in an understated performance as the sinister hubby.
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Excerpt from Seattle Times 1/8/95: John Shea
`See Jane Run' Starts Quickly, Slows At Finish
By John Voorhees Sunday, January 8, 1995 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
After she goes to the police and a hospital for help, a man who claims to be her husband, played by John Shea, shows up and takes her home, although she doesn't recognize either Shea or her home nor do the photographs of her daughter trigger any memories. Shea is the perfect choice for this role since he always projects a slightly shifty, sinister persona, and as Kerns (and viewers) begin to realize something weird is going on, something more than just amnesia, the game becomes trying to figure out what Shea is up to.
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Excerpt from New York Magazine 1/9/95: John Shea
Television: They Know How to Sitcom
The best of this week's network movies is See Jane Run (Sunday, January 8; 9 to 11 pm; ABC). Joanna Kerns is a victim of amnesia, that old soap standby, and subject in her fugue state to horrific hallucinations. With John Shea as her curly-haired doctor husband who medicates her so lovingly, we can guess pretty much where we're going.
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