The Cast 

Julia Roberts Hilary O'Neil	Campbell Scott Victor Geddes
Colleen Dewhurst Estelle Whittier	Vincent D'Onofrio Gordon
David Selby Richard Geddes	A.J. Johnson Shauna
George Martin Malachi

Says director Joel Schumacher, "Obviously Julia's a great beauty and has an extremely alluring personality on the screen, but she's also a great actress with a phenomenal range. She's so young, though, that I don't think she realizes yet how talented she is."

Roberts recently starred with Patrick Bergin in Twentieth Century Fox's runaway hit "Sleeping With the Enemy," about a young woman who takes on a new identity in a desperate attempt to escape her husband's obsessive love. She also starred last summer opposite Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon in Joel Schumacher's hit supernatural thriller "Flatliners," for which she received a Movie Award for Best Actress in a Drama.

Roberts first met producer Sally Field when she co-starred opposite Field, Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis in "Steel Magnolias." Her performance as Shelby in the ensemble comedy won Roberts the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination. She received wider attention earlier when she starred opposite Richard Gere in the comedy smash "Pretty Woman" winning her second Oscar nomination, a second Golden Globe Award and a second Movie Award. She was also named NATO/ShoWest's Female Star of the Year, an award which is voted by America's theatre owners.

A native of Smyrna, Georgia, Roberts appeared in director Bobby Roth's "Baja Oklahoma" and subsequently went on to star in Donald Petrie's "Mystic Pizza." Her latest screen venture was Erin Brokovitch.
 

Scott most recently starred opposite Debra Winger and John Malkovich in Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Sheltering Sky." He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Willy in "Longtime Companion" and will soon be seen in Kenneth Branagh's filmnoir "Dead Again."

Raised in Westchester County, New York Scott became interested in acting while at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, After moving to New York, he appeared off-Broadway in such productions as "Measure for Measure," "A Man for All Seasons," "Copperhead" and "The Last Outpost." On Broadway, he has starred in "Long Day's Journey into Night," "Hay Fever," "Ah, Wilderness!"and "The Real Thing." Most recently, Scott played the title role of "Hamlet" at the Old Globe Theatre, winning the San Diego Drama Critics Award for Best Actor.

His television credits include the miniseries "The Kennedys of Massachusetts," in which he played Joseph Kennedy, Jr., and the ABC television film "The Perfect Tribute;" which aired this spring.

Upon completing "Dying Young," Scott immediately travelled to Seattle to begin filming "Singles" opposite Bridget Fonda for director Cameron Crowe. 

Scott recently co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in the Odyssey Network's presentation of Hamlet.
 

D'Onofrio made his feature film debut and received considerable attention for his role as the tormented recruit Private Leonard "Gomer" Pyle in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket." he costarred with Julia Roberts as the impatient groom in the 1988 sleeper comedy "Mystic Pizza" and played a vulnerable boat builder left to raise his younger brother in "Signs of Life," a rookie athlete in the adventure "Salute of the Jugger" and Thor the biker, in "Adventures in Babysitting." He will also be seen this year in the motion pictures "Naked Tango" "Fires Within" and "Crooked Hearts."

D'Onofrio was born in Brooklyn and raised in Hawaii, Colorado and Miami. The beginning of his acting career can be traced to a lifelong friendship with director Elio Medina. In the late Seventies D'Onofrio moved to New York, where he trained with the American Stanislavsky Theatre for three years, performing in a variety of productions including "Of Mice and Men," 'The Petrified Forest," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "The Indian Wants the Bronx" in which he toured for six months in the Northeast. He then began working with Sharon Chatten at the Actors Studio, where he continues to train. D'Onofrio won his first role on Broadway in "Open Admissions" for the Music Box Theatre.
 

Says writer Richard Friedenberg: "Estelle is an earth mother type -- strong, caring, and very perceptive. For me Colleen Dewhurst is Estelle --  there was no other choice. If she hadn't been available, I would have had to rewrite the character."

Her award-winning career has ranged from the New York Shakespeare Festival in the Park and some of off-Broadway and Broadway's most distinguished plays, to motion pictures and television.

Her most recent New York stage appearances were "Love Letters"; the one-wornan play "My Gene," a performance she also repeated with great success at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C., and the Eugene O'Neill Double Bill on Broadway: "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "Ah, Wilderness!"

On Broadway Dewhurst has also starred in the acclaimed revival of "You Can't Take It With You" with Jason Robards, "An Almost Perfect Person," the revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," for which she received a Tony nomination, and Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten," for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress. Her other theatre credits include "Mourning Becomes Electra," "More Stately Mansions," "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," "The Good Woman of Setzuan," "All Over" and "All the Way Home," the role for which she won her first Tony Award for Best Actress. She made her directorial debut with the play "Ned and Jack."

Her many off-Broadway credits include "Taken In Marriage" at the Public Theatre and "Hello and Goodbye," for which she won a Drama Desk Award.

Among her film credits are "Bed and Breakfast," "The Glitter Dome, "The Dead Zone," "Tribute" with Jack Lemmon, "When a Stranger Calls," "Annie Hall," "McQ" with John Wayne, "Ice Castles," "A Fine Madness" and "The Boy Who Could Fly." She made her film debut in "The Nun's Story."

Dewhurst won Emmy Awards for her recurring role on "Murphy Brown" and for the film "Between Two Women." She has also starred in the television films "Those She Left Behind," "As Is" and "The Kitty O'Neill story"; the miniseries "The Blue and the Gray" and "The Woman's Room," and the critically acclaimed "Anne of the Green Gables," for which she won cable's Ace Award.

She passed away in August 1991.
 

A native of Morgantown, West Virginia, he moved to New York in 1988, where he was cast as Quentin Collins in the cult classic "Dark Shadows," At the same time he appeared in "The Devil's Disciple" with Jill Clayburgh at the American Shakespeare Festival. His many Broadway and off-Broadway productions include David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones," "The Heiress"' with Jane Alexander, "Eccentricities of a Nightingale," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Sam Shepard's "The Unseen Hand" and "Ghandi," directed by Jose Quintero. He completed a seven-week run in "The Crucible" at the LA. Theatre Center. Most recently he has written and performed his own screenplay, and recorded Caine Mutiny Court Martial, an audio drama, for the Smithsonian.

Selby is perhaps best known for his role as Richard Channing on the popular television series "Falcon Crest." He played Michael Tyrone on "Flamingo Road," John Dean in "Washington: Behind Ctosed Doors" and Avery Brundage in "King of the Olympics."

For the latest information on Mr. Selby, please visit Criseyde's  David Selby Site.
 

For television she has appeared in the series "A Different World," "The Cosby Show," "Day by Day," "In the Heat of the Night" and "Fresh Prince of Bel Aire," and in the television films "The Mary Thomas story," "First and Ten" and "Best Intentions,"

Her other feature film credits include "Pretty Hattie's Baby" and "House Party."
 

His feature film credits include "He Said, She Said," "Awakenings," "Dead Poets Society," "Falling In Love" and "Licence to Kill." 

For the stage, he has appeared on Broadway in productions of "M. Butterfly," "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," "Pack of Lies," "Total Abandon," "Plenty" and "The Hothouse."