In the film, Donald (Dennis Weaver) says that his mortgage won't be paid off until March 1 2005. In real life Weaver died on February 24, 2006, one week short of a year later.
Intimate Strangers (1977) (alternative title: "Battered") is an American made-for-television drama film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and written and produced by Richard Alan Shapiro and Esther Shapiro. The film, starring Dennis Weaver, Sally Struthers, Tyne Daly and Larry Hagman, deals with the subject domestic violence and has received positive reviews since its release, acknowledged as "an outstanding social drama" by the TV Guide.