Consenting Adults (1992)

Director:

Alan J. Pakula

Writer (WGA):

Matthew Chapman (written by)

Release Date:

16 October 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.

Plot:

Richard and Priscilla Parker's lives take a turn for the better when Eddy and Kay move into the house next door...

Plot Keywords:

False Accusation | Uzi | Betrayal | Husband Wife Relationship | Life Insurance

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Kevin Kline	...	Richard Parker
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio	...	Priscilla Parker
Kevin Spacey	...	Eddy Otis
Rebecca Miller	...	Kay Otis
Forest Whitaker	...	David Duttonville
E.G. Marshall	...	George Gordon
Kimberly McCullough	...	Lori Parker
Billie Neal	...	Annie Duttonville
Benjamin Hendrickson	...	Jimmy Schwartz
Lonnie R. Smith	...	Dr. Pettering (as Lonnie Smith)
Joe Mulherin	...	Bo
Rick Hinkle	...	Singer in Mahoney's Band
Artis Edwards Jr.	...	Atlanta Police Officer
Jerry Campbell	...	Prison Guard
Ginny Parker	...	Martha

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality, and for violence and language.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Canada:18A | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA

Company:

Hollywood Pictures

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: A pointing human hand appears near the lower left-hand corner of the frame as Duttonville is about to sit down on the stairway to talk with Richard.

Quotes:

Eddy Otis: [Whispering to Priscilla] So Richard Parker came to my house to kill for the last time.

Movie Connections:

References Vertigo (1958)

Soundtrack:

Looking Back

not good. . .

. . .but the weirdest thing is - it is eerily similar to the Aykroyd/Belushi film "Neighbors." Heavily derided in it's time, it matters not whether you liked it, it had some really weird elements to it. NOW - take out the weird elements and leave a basic plot: "Exciting" guy with a bad bleach-job and his sexy wife move in next door to thoroughly-mundane guy and his attractive wife; who, by the way have a sexless marriage. Kline/Belushi are set up as "marks" immediately, and almost as immediately the new neighbors begin a contrived "seduction of the innocent". Soon, the mundane guy finds himself trapped in an existential hell of Blondie's making(Spacey/Aykroyd). Well. Consenting Adults is not a good movie - or even interesting. Spacey gives a charismatic performance as usual, but the script lacks any originality. This was another entry in the ". . .from Hell" high-concept series of scripts from the early-90's. Babysitter. . .Cop. . .Neighbor. . .Dentist. ..I wish I could say that the best parts of this film ended up on the editing room floor - considering the cast - but there's no way this script was ever anything but stale.