Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery

About Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery

When hard boiled private eye Donald Strachey finds his latest client dead, an apparent suicide, Albany’s favorite gay detective smells a rat and decides to take matters into his own hands. With the help of his straight-laced but adoring husband Tim and his occasionally too-eager assistant Kenny, Strachey’s investigation leads him on a dark and dangerous trail into the world of "gay conversion ther…

Shock to the System: A Donald Strachey Mystery (2006) is a crime mystery film directed by Ron Oliver. Its themes are murder investigation, politician, suspicion of murder, and private investigator.

Chad Allen stars as Donald Strachey, Sebastian Spence as Timmy Callahan, Michael Woods as Dr. Trevor Cornell, and Morgan Fairchild as Phyllis Hale. At 91 minutes long, it arrived in August 2006.

The screenplay is by Ron McGee. The story is adapted from a novel. In the United States it streams on Here TV.

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