Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Stranger in the Family
TITLE DETAILS

Stranger in the Family

1991-10-27 · 91 min · ★ 5.7

TV Movie · Drama

Steve Thompson is losing himself, one memory at a time. Plagued with amnesia after getting a concussion, Steve is overwhelmed by his unrecognizable life and leaves his family in search of answers. But his quest only returns him back home, where he must face his demons and get at the truth.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Donald Wrye
Production companies
Hearst Entertainment Productions, ABC
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Teri GarrTeri GarrRandi Thompson
Neil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick HarrisSteve Thompson
Randle MellRandle MellAlan Thompson
Sierra SamuelShari Thompson
Kathryn DowlingDr. Webb
Cully FredricksenCully FredricksenPrincipal
Mag RuffmanMag RuffmanMrs. Kessler
Kris LeFanCraig
Jeff Bryant
Sarah DeAngelis
Stacy Pearson
Shane EdelmanShane Edelman
Steve Cribari
Lindsey Edelman
John Evans
Mark Sult
Kenn Watt
Nancy Lee Russell
Kathleen Turco-Lyon
Jerado Carmona

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Recommendations

Spellbound
★ 7.4
Spellbound1945Drama

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

Ray Donovan: The Movie
★ 6.8
Ray Donovan: The Movie2022TV Movie · Drama

A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each of them struggles to overcome their violent upbringing, but destiny dies hard, and only their fierce love for each other keeps them in the fight.

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
★ 7.1
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault1996TV Movie · Drama

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

TalhotBlond
★ 6.3
TalhotBlond2012TV Movie · Drama

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

I Am Elizabeth Smart
★ 6.8
I Am Elizabeth Smart2017TV Movie · Drama

The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.

Hello Sister, Goodbye Life
★ 6.1
Hello Sister, Goodbye Life2006TV Movie · Drama

A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.

Cheaters
★ 6.3
Cheaters2000TV Movie · Drama

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

Seeds of Yesterday
★ 6.4
Seeds of Yesterday2015TV Movie · Drama

The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.

Locke & Key
★ 6.9
Locke & Key2011TV Movie · Drama

Three children become the caretakers of a New England mansion that is home to a bevy of secrets and magic.

Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
★ 7.2
Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery2020TV Movie · Drama

Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr. Zee Madieras to track down their friend's missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also... a murderer.

A Bramble House Christmas
★ 6.4
A Bramble House Christmas2017TV Movie · Drama

While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim what he considers his family’s money, going undercover to investigate the bed and breakfast the nurse has recently taken over. When Finn meets Willa, he discovers she’s not a conniving gold digger at all, but a woman in need who put the money to good use. When she discovers his true identity, will it keep Willa from ever trusting him again?

Double Teamed!
★ 6.0
Double Teamed!2002TV Movie · Drama

Heather and Heidi play volleyball for their school team, when their family decides that they need to go to a bigger school so that they will have a better chance for scholarships. But at the new school, the twins are discovered by the basketball coach. Inspired by the true story of Heather and Heidi Burge.

Witness Protection
★ 6.3
Witness Protection1999TV Movie · Drama

Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing prosecution for a number of serious crimes, Batton is offered a deal by the FBI in which he will be given immunity in exchange for testifying against his former partners. However, Batton will have to join the Federal Witness Protection Program, which means that he, his wife, and his children will never again see their friends and family.

The Firm
★ 6.5
The Firm1989TV Movie · Drama

A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans. When 'The Firm' decide to confront a rival gang, it ends in tragedy.

Girl in the Box
★ 6.7
Girl in the Box2016TV Movie · Drama

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

Sleep, My Love
★ 6.3
Sleep, My Love1948Drama

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

Love Finds You In Sugarcreek
★ 6.5
Love Finds You In Sugarcreek2014TV Movie · Drama

Will a mysterious stranger's past wreak havoc on a quiet Amish community after they've opened their doors -- and hearts -- to him and his son?

...First Do No Harm
★ 6.8
...First Do No Harm1997TV Movie · Drama

When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and desperate, and so does her own research into the existing literature on treatments. When she decides to try an alternative treatment called the Ketogenic Diet, devised long ago by a doctor from Johns Hopkins, she is met with narrow-minded resistance from Robbie's doctor, who is prepared to take legal action to prevent Lori from removing him from the hospital.

Love Finds You in Charm
★ 6.2
Love Finds You in Charm2015TV Movie · Drama

A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder
★ 7.0
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder2022TV Movie · Drama

A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body.

Similar titles

Steel Magnolias
★ 7.2
Steel Magnolias1989Drama

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

Mysterious Skin
★ 7.7
Mysterious Skin2005Drama

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Running Out
★ 10.0
Running Out1983TV Movie · Drama

A young woman, unable to handle the stress of raising a family, runs out on her husband and young daughter. 12 years later, she returns in hopes of rekindling a bond with them.

Watch the Sunset
★ 5.3
Watch the Sunset2017Drama

In a single afternoon a man comes to grips with the power of his past when his estranged family becomes tangled in its web. Shot in a continuous take.

The Majestic
★ 6.8
The Majestic2001Drama

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Topside
★ 6.6
Topside2022Drama

Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are forced to flee aboveground into a brutal winter night. Determined to return home, they fight to find shelter as their world is thrown into chaos.

Single Black Female 3: The Final Chapter
★ 7.0
Single Black Female 3: The Final Chapter2025TV Movie · Drama

After being wrongfully arrested for murder, Monica has finally been proven innocent. All charges have been dropped and the police have shifted their focus to Simone, who has seeming disappeared. But Simone is bonding with her daughter Joy.

Ya Pasó
★ 2.0
Ya Pasó2022Drama

Agustín finds himself in the middle of a chaotic dispute between his father and his mother, without being able to do anything about it.

Silence
Not rated
Silence2025Drama

Three sisters confront a secret when cleaning up the apartment of their deceased father.

Kabei: Our Mother
★ 7.6
Kabei: Our Mother2008Drama

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.

Oye Ninne
Not rated
Oye Ninne2017Drama

'Oye Ninne' charts the story of Vishnu, a young man who aspires to be a farmer while his parents want him to aim for something big. He grows up with his cousin Veda, whom he shares a love-hate relationship. For Vishnu, she's that "annoying cousin" everyone has in a family; whom your parents love more than you. Vishnu's father believes he's good-for-nothing, but will that change?

Gone, But Not Forgotten
★ 5.3
Gone, But Not Forgotten2003Drama

Questions about the identity of an amnesiac threaten his romance with the park ranger who rescued him.

Garmil
★ 9.0
Garmil1942Drama

Niren Lahiri directs this social-minded melodrama about the complicated relationship between a traditional Hindu family headed by Madhab Thakur (Choudhury) and their progressive next-door neighbor Mukherjee (Chhabi Biswas). Thakur's daughter, Malati (Sheila Haldar), and Mukherjee's son, Robi (Robin Majumdar), run a school teaching traditional Hindu values which they hope will become a countrywide franchise. Their planned nuptials are impeded when Malati's older sister is forced to marry a Brahmin against her will, resulting in a full-scale revolt in both households. Eventually, the rift is settled, the hero and heroine marry, and a sort of Hindu-laden modernity reigns in the two families.

Goldmine
Not rated
Goldmine2026Drama

Singer Lorelai's father suffers a heart attack and is placed on VR life support. She enters his virtual reality to revive him through shared memories, but becomes trapped in an Old Western VR world.

The Pretender 2001
★ 7.2
The Pretender 20012001TV Movie

Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing look back at how Jarod originally espaced from the Centre. But now he must infiltrate the NSA to capture a ruthless assassin who might be a fellow Pretender from his past!

Gemini
★ 6.6
Gemini1999Drama

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Marta
Not rated
Marta2015Drama

Marta comes home after her mother's funeral. Having devoted the last years of his life to take care of her, it's time to learn how to live with that void. For the first time she will think about the future, but an unexpected visit will force her to travel to the hardest places in her memory.

A World of Ours
★ 6.0
A World of Ours2008Drama

Noé comes into sixth grade at the same time he discovers a new city and a new house where he has just moved with his father, Marc. Coached by him, Noé takes intensive training of combat sport. And Mark does not hesitate to put him in a situation of attack. They are in danger, he must be prepared to respond to any aggression. While keeping the secret of his "double" life, Noé has to learn how to find a place in his new college. He becomes friend with Marine, a young girl full of energy. Noé discovers a world whose vision was shaped by his father so far. A father so near and yet so mysterious. Between them there is a history of complicity and confrontation.

And So the Baton Is Passed
★ 6.6
And So the Baton Is Passed2021Drama

The happy home life of a high school student who lives with her loving stepfather is put in jeopardy by a painful family secret.

Falling for Vermont
★ 6.6
Falling for Vermont2017TV Movie

Bestselling author Angela Young needs to get away from the media circus surrounding her book, but her boyfriend/manager Brad is too busy making deals to listen. Determined to take a break, Angela pulls a disappearing act and drives off to see the fall foliage.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.