Separate Lives (1995)

Director:

David Madden

Writer (WGA):

Steven Pressfield (written by)

Release Date:

8 September 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

She hired him to watch her.

Plot:

The e-cop Tom Beckwith has just quit his police job in order to study psychology. But his professor...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Professor | Ex Cop | Psycho Thriller | Investigator

Cast

James Belushi	...	Tom Beckwith
Linda Hamilton	...	Lauren Porter
Vera Miles	...	Dr. Ruth Goldin
Elisabeth Moss	...	Ronni Beckwith
Drew Snyder	...	Robert Porter
Mark Lindsay Chapman	...	Keno Sykes
Marc Poppel	...	Detective Joe Gallo
Elizabeth Arlen	...	Dee Harris
Josh Taylor	...	Charles Duffy
Ken Kerman	...	Detective Boyle
Michael Whaley	...	Detective Miller
Jackie Debatin	...	Darlene
Joshua Malina	...	Randall
Lisa Vanderpump	...	Heidi Porter
Craig Stepp	...	David Mills

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:18 | USA:R

Company:

Interscope Communications

Trivia:

Vera Miles' final acting role.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Fast Show: Mixa (#2.2)" (1996)

Soundtrack:

Forceps

Where B-list movie stars go to "rest"

Not so long ago I was watching Terminator 2 on DVD and thinking "Linda Hamilton WAS the sexiest screen actress of the 1990s!". Some Hollywood high-roller obviously agreed, and tragically this unerotic, mediocre thriller was born. There is, it has to be said, a lot to be said for sweat, glycerine and extreme body-sculpting. Re-packaged as a low budget "rock chick" in rubber-band miniskirts and chromed leather jacket, Linda looks disappointingly like a what a middle-aged movie executive's secretary wears in his dreams. And whatever happened to James Belushi? A former Arnie co-star, like Linda, in the 80's he was the dependable face of action movies that couldn't afford Bruce Willis. This predictable pot-boiler is not a career high for either. James is let down by the director, often looking wooden, and Linda's split personality psychotherapist swings from a reprise of "Sarah Connor on Thorazine" in T2 to her unconvincing rock-chick alter-ego. The twist in the tail murderer is obvious from the moment "Laura's" flashbacks begin. I was ill, I was stuck in bed, and this was the most watchable thing on TV last night. Shame on me, I had a book to read, and shame on the TV schedulers too.