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Calling the Shots
Overview
In CALLING THE SHOTS, Redgrave plays a female television journalist who gets into a very scary kind of trouble over one of her stories. She receives threats and packages containing very provocative material. Before long she finds that this mysterious someone is stalking her. When the police get involved it's discovered that her apartment has been fitted with bugging devices and hidden cameras.
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