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Larry Cohen (written by)
Release Date:
10 May 1995 (USA)
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Susan switches identities with her new friend Nicole, so that Nicole can pay for her medical bills with Susan's insurance. Then Susan finds herself trapped in her new identity when Nicole ends up dead under questionable circumstances. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Crystal Bernard | ... | Susan Warfield | |
| Judge Reinhold | ... | Ron Holden / Aaron Warfield | |
| Traci Lords | ... | Nicole Grace | |
| Carlos Carrasco | ... | Eddie Garcia | |
| George Dickerson | ... | Mr. Edgar Warfield | |
| Daniel McDonald | ... | Thomas A. Rutherford | |
| Scott Williamson | ... | Dr. Sullivan | |
| Jerry Bernard | ... | Funeral Director | |
| Thomas Prisco | ... | Hospital Technician | |
| Daniel Shriver | ... | Roger | |
| Myrna Niles | ... | Mrs. Connor | |
| Kathleen Marshall | ... | Crosswell Receptionist | |
| Tom Ashworth | ... | Ralph Langford | |
| Jack Forcinito | ... | Chris Corzo (as Jack Verell) | |
| Ivonne Coll | ... | Mexican Woman |
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Rated PG-13 for violence.
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88 min
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Continuity: When Susan is leaving the phone booth at airport the taxi she gets in is a Station Wagon, when she arrives at her building the taxi is a 4 door Crown Victoria.
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Crystal Bernard is "As Good as Dead" in this 1995 film written and directed by Larry Cohen. Before the day of home computers, Larry Cohen's grammar school-aged daughter had to write a short report. Mr. Cohen used the typing agency where I worked to type his scripts. So on a Sunday, I took a cab to his beautiful home in New York City, got the hand-printed paper, went home, typed it, got in a cab and brought the typed paper back. We also typed a couple of scripts for him in the office. He would dictate them and take on the accent or emotion of the characters. I've followed his prolific career with great interest.
In "As Good as Dead," Bernard plays Susan Warfield, who works in an office. She takes a hep, sick young woman, Nicole (Traci Lords) to the hospital and gives the desk her own insurance card so that Nicole can be treated. Otherwise, they would have to go to the county hospital.
Susan tells her office she has to have surgery (as Nicole does) and then takes off on vacation so as not to run into anyone she knows. When she returns, Nicole, assumed to be Susan, is unexpectedly dead; Susan's apartment has been cleared out, and her job is gone. The strangest part of it is that a half-brother that Susan isn't aware she has made all the arrangements. Susan has no choice but to move into Nicole's apartment and wear Nicole's trendy, too short clothes until she can find out why Nicole died and who this mysterious half-brother is.
This is actually quite an interesting film, very Lifetime, very TV movie, but entertaining with good performances. Bernard is likable, Lords is Lords, and Judge Reinhold does very well as an attractive man who becomes part of Nicole's (Susan's) life.
Mr. Cohen's daughter is undoubtedly married now with children of her own. Though this film was made in 1995, he is still very active as a writer. Thanks to the computer, I'm still typing.