"Five Desperate Women" is a 1971 made for TV movie that aired as an ABC Movie of the Week, starring: Robert Conrad, Anjanette Comer, Bradford Dillman, Joan Hackett, Denise Nicholas, Stefanie Powers and Julie Sommars.
Years after graduating from a private college, five friends reconnect for a reunion by chartering a boat to take them to a remote island off the coast of California where they will stay at an isolated seaside house. The only inhabitants of the island are the five women: Lucy, Dorian, Joy, Gloria and Mary Grace as well as two men: the caretaker Michael & the boat captain Jim. Unbeknownst to the women, there is a maniacal killer on the loose from the local insane asylum who at the beginning of the film kills a man on the beach and steals his clothes which have the island resort's company logo.
The women are each taking a break from the lives they have ended up with since college. At the beginning they all make it appear that each is doing well but little by little the truth surfaces and we learn that their lives aren't so happy after all. When one of the women is found strangled in her bed, this makes the other four even more desperate to get off the island and away from the two men - one of which has to be the murderer. Just when they try to get away, the boat explodes and the suspicions grow.
Will the four remaining women make it out alive? Will they learn new things about themselves and their lives and be able to pick up the pieces if they make it out? This is a pretty standard made for TV thriller that nevertheless is fun to watch.
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