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Release Date:
26 April 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
Loving him was easy. Trusting him was deadly.
Plot:
Realising his secret girl-friend Dorothy's pregnancy will sour her relations with her ultra-rich father...
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2 wins
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Totally awful. I expected more.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Bonfanti | ... | Young Jonathan |
| Sarah Keller | ... | Lecturer |
 | Sean Young | ... | Ellen / Dorothy Carlsson |
 | Martha Gehman | ... | Patricia Farren |
| Lia Chang | ... | Shoe Saleslady |
 | Matt Dillon | ... | Jonathan Corliss |
| Yvette Edelhart | ... | Screaming Lady |
 | Max von Sydow | ... | Thor Carlsson |
| Jim Fyfe | ... | Terry Dieter |
| Lachele Carl | ... | Reporter |
 | Briony Glassco | ... | Waitress |
| Shane Rimmer | ... | Commissioner Malley |
 | James Russo | ... | Dan Corelli |
 | Diane Ladd | ... | Mrs. Corliss |
| Adam Horovitz | ... | Jay Faraday |
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94 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Iceland:16 |
Australia:M |
Canada:18A (Ontario) |
Portugal:M/16 |
Argentina:16 |
UK:15 (re-rating) |
Finland:K-16 |
France:-12 |
Germany:16 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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The producers of the film wanted River Phoenix to play the lead. They approached him several times for the role, and kept increasing their offers, but he didn't feel a connection to the material and felt he was unsuitable to play the part, so repeatedly turned it down.
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Revealing mistakes: When Ellen looks out at the railroad tracks just prior to the final confrontation, she sees a freight train with a long line of cars with bright green Carlsson Copper logos. The logos, however, are printed on fake-looking prop fabrics draped over the cars.
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Featured in "Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater: Femme Fatale Month: Part 3" (1993)
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Rubberman Rock This House
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As one of my favorite cartoon characters once said, "It was awful. Worse than awful. It reeked. It oozed badness from every pore...Well, maybe not THAT bad, but Lord it wasn't good." Loads of bad acting. I can't imagine why. Matt Dillon is a good actor. I was actually watching to see Ben Browder (currently of Farscape). Even he was less than stellar. I'll attribute it to bad writing (Ouch! And me an aspiring writer). At any rate, the plot of the movie was acceptable. I like a good murder mystery (even if it wasn't that much of mystery to the audience). This is definitely a movie that would have benefited from a better director, writer, editor, producer, etc.