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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Joe Eszterhas (written by)
Release Date:
13 October 1995 (USA)
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Tagline:
Some women have secret fantasies. Some women have secret lives. more
Plot:
Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation...
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Plot Keywords:
Investigation
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Blackmail
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Paranoia
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Whodunit
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Sex Killer
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Awards:
2 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
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Stylish thriller, better than expected
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Caruso | ... | David Corelli |
 | Linda Fiorentino | ... | Trina Gavin |
 | Chazz Palminteri | ... | Matt Gavin |
 | Richard Crenna | ... | Gov. Lew Edwards |
 | Michael Biehn | ... | Bob Hargrove |
 | Donna Murphy | ... | Karen Heller |
 | Ken King | ... | Petey Vesko |
 | Holt McCallany | ... | Bill Barrett |
| David Hunt | ... | Pat Callendar |
 | Angie Everhart | ... | Patrice Jacinto |
| Kevin Tighe | ... | Dist. Atty. Arnold Clifford |
 | Robin Thomas | ... | Mr. Green |
| Jay Jacobus | ... | Justin Henderson |
| Victoria Smith | ... | Sandy |
| Drew Snyder | ... | Executive |
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MPAA:
Rated R for grisly afterviews of murder victims, violence, language and strong scenes of aberrant sexuality.
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Runtime:
95 min | USA:107 min (director's cut)
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Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
Australia:R |
USA:R (certificate #33482) |
Singapore:PG (video rating) (cut) |
Singapore:R(A) |
USA:Unrated (home video version) |
South Korea:18 |
Philippines:R-18 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Argentina:16 |
Canada:R |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:16 |
Hong Kong:III |
Italy:VM18 |
Norway:18 |
Peru:18 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18
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According to Joe Eszterhas's autobiography he hated the final film. Director William Friedkin changed Eszterhas's SCRIPT so much, he threatened to remove his name from the credits. Paramount settled with him by giving him a "blind script deal" worth two to four Million Dollars.
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Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When David is chasing the black car you can clearly see his airbag coming out with the second jump. In the next scene the airbag is gone.
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Quotes:
Bob Hargrove:
I think she did it.
David Corelli: Why?
Bob Hargrove: She's got no alibi and we've got her prints on the hatchet.
David Corelli: And she lied to us.
Petey Vesko: Typical shrink behaviour. They like to pull your strings.
Bob Hargrove: [to Corelli] She was pulling your strings pretty good.
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David Corelli: Why?
Bob Hargrove: She's got no alibi and we've got her prints on the hatchet.
David Corelli: And she lied to us.
Petey Vesko: Typical shrink behaviour. They like to pull your strings.
Bob Hargrove: [to Corelli] She was pulling your strings pretty good.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Ray Liotta/The Donnas (#28.10)" (2003)
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Soundtrack:
Last To Know
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Jade got a bad rap when it showed in theaters and still appears to be getting one now from the comments here, so I didn't expect much when I caught it on cable. It never hurts to have low expectations, but I was quite pleasantly surprised and have watched it a few more times since then.
No, the plot isn't especially tight nor the story original, and it can be hard to follow at some points, but it's still an exciting, kinky, disturbing ride nonetheless.
I think the main reason I enjoyed it was the actors involved - Caruso and Palminteri were both very skilled (and surprisingly sexy - I hadn't found either to be that way in any roles I had seen them in previously, including NYPD Blue). And most of all Fiorentino smokes up the screen whenever she's on it. Sensual, damaged, brilliant. She's amazing when given a good script like the Last Seduction, but even with a flawed effort such as Jade, she still sets the house on fire.
The cinematography and art direction were the other thing that made this film. I loved the lavish sets and especially the eerie lighting during the final scene.
And as far as the comparisons to Basic Instinct, I see it as being about equal, suffering from the opposite problems as Jade; while the story was far more interesting the acting was pendantic at best. But maybe that's just my personal bias; I find Michael Douglas pompous and annoying and Sharon Stone shallow and vain.