An Unfinished Affair is a 1996 American television film directed by Rod Hardy and starring Jennie Garth, Tim Matheson, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Peter Facinelli.

[2] In Tucson, Arizona, Alex Connor (Tim Matheson) is a college teacher whose wife Cynthia (Leigh Taylor-Young) is in remission from cancer.

Sheila Hart (Jennie Garth), one of his art students, invites him to her apartment to see a painting of hers.

Alex returns several days later to retrieve a pornographic Japanese silk screen painting he had lent her.

Sheila refuses to return it, saying he had given it to her as a gift, and tells him to leave, before beginning to ignore his calls.

Rick is told to get back the missing silk screen, and Alex doesn't tell either of them that he knows who has it.

Back at the warehouse, a detective who is an expert in stolen art has been brought on to find the silk screen.

Rick brings his new girlfriend to Thanksgiving dinner with his family, and Alex is shocked to find that it is Sheila.

After failing to convince Sheila to give him her new contact information, Alex goes to the warehouse and snoops through Rick's things to find it.

When he arrives home, a man named Dwight Bennet (Michael Massee) has sneaked into Alex's garage and threatens him.

She admits to the family that she was once having an affair with a married man, but that she learned a valuable lesson and was lucky to have met Rick.

Sheila considers leaving her where she is dangling from a branch, but she sees Alex approaching and quickly saves her.

After Sheila returns home, Dwight again breaks into her apartment and demands the money she promised him.

She tells him it's behind a cabinet, but when he searches for it, she stabs him in the back with a knife wrapped in a plastic bag.

She hangs up, and Rick calls again, leaving a frantic message on her answering machine that if her ex hurts her, he will kill him.

Sheila has gone to the nursing home to say goodbye to her mother and retrieve the hidden silk screen, but finds that it is missing from the back of the painting.

Ultimately, Sheila shoots at Alex with Clayton's gun and steals the painting from Rick.