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Director:
Andrew Lane
Writers:
Ed Fitzgerald (written by)
Paul Koval (written by)
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Release Date:
29 April 1995 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller more
Plot:
Tom and Karen are unhappy, planning to divorce after they sell their house. At work, a ruthless colleague is pushing Tom aside... more | add synopsis
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Totally unsympathetic protagonist destroys promising thriller more (3 total)

Cast

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Theresa Russell ... Jackie Daniels

Adam Baldwin ... Thomas Hughes
Barry Primus ... Detective Gold
Megan Gallagher ... Karen Hughes

Pat Skipper ... Kirk Daniels
Rod McCary ... Will Hoffman

Richard K. Olsen ... Jack

Julie Upton ... Susan
Sandra Thigpen ... Kathleen
Tom Celli ... Bixby

Brett Rice ... Angry Drunk
Norman Max Maxwell ... Workshop Leader
Fredrica Duke ... Grieving Woman
Jack Swanson ... Workshop Attendee
Ann Kraft ... Workshop Attendee
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for sexuality, and for language and some violence.
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Runtime:
92 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Ultra Stereo
Certification:
Australia:M | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Company:
Gibraltar Entertainment more

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Totally unsympathetic protagonist destroys promising thriller, 7 August 2000
Author: xorys (xorys@idirect.ca) from Toronto, Canada

The problem I had with this movie was basically very simple - I found the protagonist, played by Adam Baldwin, absolutely loathsome. Now this wouldn't necessarily be a problem... many excellent movies have been made about horrible people. Unfortunately this movie seems to have been constructed firmly on the basis that the audience would identify with this guy and sympathise with the situations he finds himself in. Since this wasn't remotely true for me, the film completed failed to work in my experience. If this guy showed up at my door, I'd slam it in his face. If he sat near me in a public place, I'd change seats to get away from him. Do you remember the movie "A Shock to the System"? Somewhat similar to this movie, in a way... but there Michael Caine succeeded in invoking empathy as the central character, and hence the movie worked. Whereas... well one of the taglines for "Shock to the System" was something about "die yuppie scum" - and that's pretty much how I felt about Adam Baldwin's character in "Trade Off". Theresa Russell is a pleasure to watch... she has a strange, rather flat kind of affect, but I've always enjoyed her work. Unfortunately every single scene she's in also has Baldwin's repulsive yuppie in, thereby effectively ruining it. An unfortunate case where the failure of one character realisation ruins the whole film... which otherwise had some promise (sort of "Strangers on a Train" redone with an erotic relationship between the strangers thrown in, and extra twists).

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