Movie Description The director of RED ROCK WEST delivers this unusual thriller about a femme fatale who absconds with her husband's drug money. Fiorentino is enchantingly wicked as the cold-blooded beauty who uses men like toys.
| Credits | | Cast: | Bill Pullman, Linda Fiorentino |
Notes DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English, Shot in CFI color, using Panavision equipment, on location in Irvington, New York.
Additional credits: Michael J. Moore (assistant director).
Copyright 1993 ITC Entertainment Group, Ltd.
Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Editorial Reviews "...The plot twists, the worm turns and the result is prime suspense with a potent sting..." Rolling Stone - p.157 - Peter Travers (10/20/1994)
"...An intricate and gradual unfolding story of misunderstanding and murder..." Sight and Sound - p.44 - Kim Newman (08/01/1994)
"...A devilishly entertaining crime story with a heroine who must be seen to be believed....A gripping story and a tight, suspenseful directorial style..." New York Times - p.C13 - Janet Maslin (10/26/1994)
"...Fiorentino is wonderful as the irredeemable villainess....A genre potboiler of a different kind..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly - pp.106-7 - Glenn Kenny (06/30/1995)
"...Well-paced, cleverly written and quite diabolical....Fiorentino is quite wonderful..." Variety - David Stratton (02/28/1994)
"...A movie that is not only ingenious and entertaining, but liberating, because we can sense the story isn't going to be twisted into conformity with some stupid formula..." Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (11/18/1994)
"...John Dahl's direction is as cool and calculating as his femme fatale..." Total Film - Lucy Aitken (04/01/2001)
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n irresistible treat. The plotting is serpentine, the dialogue snaps like a wounded cobra and the gleefully heartless tone never softens for a second." Total Film - Philip Kemp (07/01/2006)
4 stars out of 5 -- "This 1994 thriller plays like a modern noir, fuelled by passion and revenge." Ultimate DVD - Nikki Baughan (07/01/2006)
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