Product Details

• Actors: Penelope Branning, Colleen Camp, Patrick Dempsey, Wanda-Lee Evans, Mary Pat Gleason
• Directors: Hubert C. de la Bouillerie
• Writers: Brent Briscoe, Mark Fauser
• Producers: Debbie Robins, Donna Dubrow, Hillary Anne Ripps, Jana Sue Memel, John McTiernan
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Republic Pictures
• VHS Release Date: January 21, 1997
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6303995802
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,808 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rookie cop sharpens her "people skills", August 28, 2008

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This review is from: Right to Remain Silent [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT, a rookie cop (Lea Thompson) who graduated the academy with highest grades experiences her first night shift at the precinct house. Eight people are booked for far-ranging reasons (a drunk driver, a crossdresser, a KKKer, a mugger, a man who helped his terminally ill wife commit suicide, etc.). Good cast is featured in TV movie based on a play that is by turns humorous, melancholy, thought-provoking and preachy.

(Not available on DVD.)


In the biggest hit movie of 1985, BACK TO THE FUTURE (and its two sequels), Lea Thompson played Michael J. Fox's girlfriend.


Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.

(6.0) The Right To Remain Silent (TV-1996) - Lea Thompson/Robert Loggia/Carl Reiner/LL Cool J/Judge Reinhold/Amanda Plummer/Patrick Dempsey/Laura San Giacomo