Director John Schlesinger has an emotive subject here, but his low-key treatment fails to make the most of the potential suspense and terror that should be part of the territory.

Sally Field is happily settled with second husband Ed Harris, plus a daughter from each of her marriages.

Then the older girl, at home preparing for a party, is raped and murdered by an intruder.

Police identify the assailant (Kiefer Sutherland) but he gets off on a legal technicality.

At first intent on personal revenge, Field is warned off by an FBI agent working undercover to root out vigilante elements in selfhelp groups.

But when the police fail to act on information she supplies on a second woman the killer is stalking, and the woman ultimately suffers the same fate as her daughter, Fields grits her little teeth and sets a vengeance plan in motion.

Routinely competent in a TV movie way, the film benefits from its star cast, but is unlikely to linger in your memory.