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Bad Influence (DVD, 2002, Widescreen and Pan & Scan) 
Bad Influence (DVD, 2002, Widescreen and Pan & Scan)

 
Bad Influence (DVD, 2002, Widescreen and Pan & Scan)

Leading Role: James Spader,Rob Lowe
Director: Curtis Hanson
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Dec 2002
Format: DVD
Additional Info: Widescreen and Pan & Scan
UPC: 027616881373
Product ID: EPID3416579
Description: In this psychological thriller directed by Curtis Hanson, James Spader stars as Michael Boll, a meek executive who lives a boring life. Though he wants nothing more than to be successful at work, Michael does nothing when a sneaky cowork...
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In this psychological thriller directed by Curtis Hanson, James Spader stars as Michael Boll, a meek executive who lives a boring life. Though he wants nothing more than to be successful at work, Michael does nothing when a sneaky coworker consistently throws wrenches into his plan. His love life is not much better--he's engaged to a woman who has their entire future planned. Escaping from the office for a drink, Michael is saved from a violent barroom brawl by the mysterious Alex (Rob Lowe). Wimpy Michael befriends Alex, who introduces him to the seedy underground scene in Los Angeles. At first Michael enjoys his new adventure and is empowered by the advice that Alex offers, becoming bolder and taking action to get what he wants. But when Alex begins to influence every aspect of Michael's professional and personal life, drawing him into his own dark world of theft, sex, voyeurism, and murder, Michael has to save himself from this sadistic stranger's depravity. Christian Clemenson stars as Michael's brother, and Lisa Zane is the seductive Claire. Blink and you'll miss David Duchovny, who is billed as Club Goer.

Credits
Cast:Christian Clemenson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Lisa Zane

Details
Edition:Widescreen and Pan & Scan

Notes
DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Full Frame - 1.33
Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
   Stereo Surround - English
   Mono 1.0 - French, Theatrical release: March, 1990.

Filmed in Los Angeles, CA.

BAD INFLUENCE is a variation on the plot of Alfred Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.

Selected for the 1990 Deauville Film Festival.

BAD INFLUENCE contains a film clip from Jean-Luc Godard's ALPHAVILLE, starring Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina.

Screenwriter David Koepp went on to write the scripts for many other films, including JURASSIC PARK, JURASSIC PARK: THE LOST WORLD, and STIR OF ECHOES.

The project achieved a great deal of notoriety due to the casting of Rob Lowe as the videotaping psychopath. Prior to the film's release, Lowe had been arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, for having sexual relations with a minor--and recording the encounter on video. The charges were subsequently dropped but the scandal lingered, and bootleg dubs of the evidence tape circulated for years afterwards.

Estimated budget $7 million.

Editorial Reviews
"...Entertaining..."
USA Today - p.1D - Stephen Holden

"...Erotic and spine-tingling, this thriller has undeniable allure..."
Rolling Stone - p.36 - Peter Travers

"...BAD INFLUENCE is an entertaining, expensive-looking suspense thriller....Sharply observed..."
New York Times - p.C10 - Vincent Canby

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    Top Reviews
      BBBBBad Influence to the Bone!
    Review created: 11/11/06
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    bette.davis1908-1989 ( 546)
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    51 of 51 people found this review helpful.

    Like the Hitchcock psycho-thriller, "Stranger on a Train," "Bad Influence," directed by Curtis Hanson, both "...Erotic and spine-tingling, this thriller has undeniable allure..." Rolling Stone - p.36 - Peter Travers. One of my favorite actors (in his much thinner form this time--as in "Crash"), James Spader, stars as a geeky financial wiz who is quite coy. (That's his charm . . . in the beginning). He's also engaged to a physician's dominating daughter who plans for him to live her life.

    Enter Alex (Rob Lowe), stage far far left. Charmer, ultra-self-confident, and coming to Spader's rescue when a barroom thug knocks the suit and tie coy guy around for an unjust reason.

    It's the L.A. elite above-ground that Alex allures Michael into because it is so enjoyable to be freed from that stiff-shirted life, surrounded by hot and lusty, classy enough women, and exposed to fine wine and cocaine. Michael's got Alex for a malevolent mentor man.

    Unfortunately, however, Michael's sense of growing powerful is an illusion created by Alex (Lowe), who is brazenly taking control over Michael’s engagement, work, and financial life. Lowe doesn't have to do much acting to con Michael into sex, film voyeurism, and worse.

    First released in LA in 1990, "Bad Influence," went to the '90 Deaville Film Festival. "Bad Influence," received media notoriety because Rob Lowe had been cast as the videotaping psychopath and arrested in Atlanta (prior to the film's release) for video-taping himself having sex with a youth.


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