Red Letters (2000)

Director:

Bradley Battersby

Writers (WGA):

Tom Hughes (written by) &
Bradley Battersby (written by)

Release Date:

9 June 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.

Plot Keywords:

College | Prison | Nathaniel Hawthorne | College Professor | Murder

Cast

Peter Coyote	...	Dennis Burke
Nastassja Kinski	...	Lydia Davis
Fairuza Balk	...	Gretchen Van Buren
Jeremy Piven	...	Thurston Clarque
Ernie Hudson	...	Detective Glen Teal
Paul Gleason	...	Dean Van Buren
Heather Ehlers	...	Karen Clarque
Steve Monroe	...	Schminick
Udo Kier	...	George Kessler
Layla Roberts	...	Cheryl Russo
Owen Bush	...	Old Man
Kenneth Ryan	...	Lawyer
Brian Leckner	...	Lenzo Russo
Susan Morgenstern	...	Nancy Maxwell
Antoinette Valente	...	Molly

MPAA:

Rated R for strong language including sexual dialogue, and for some nudity.

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:12 | Iceland:12 | South Korea:18 | Australia:M | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Filmtown Entertainment

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Dennis Burke grabs a newspaper and reads a headline, relevant to the plot, that indicates State Manhunt Widens. But if you pause the frame and read the text of the article below the headline, you see it is a bogus article about teenage curfew, totally unrelated to the headline.

Movie Connections:

References "NFL Monday Night Football" (1970)

Peter Coyote at his best!

Has to be on of Peter Coyote's best acting jobs today. Of course Peter is most recognized from his charater in the epic film E.T. and of course, who can forget The Legend of Billy Jean. Peter portrays and alcoholic college professor(Dennis Burke) just released from a former College on the grounds of sexual harassment. Opening scene in this movie is one of a kind. At his new College, Dennis is befriended by a wanna be computer hacker, Thurston Clarque(Jeremy Piven), and not a bad portrayal of the computer hacker from Piven. As Dennis tries to adjust to his new living, he begins receiving letters from an unknown woman(Natassja Kinski), trying to reach the man that once lived in the apartment. Dennis begins making contact with this myterious woman, and only to find out that she is in a woman's correctional facility, for a brutal crime she claims she didn't do. If things couldn't get any more complicated for Dennis, his sexually frustrated student, Gretchen, played by flawlessly by (Fairuza Balk ) is now infatuated with him, probably because of the sexual art book he wrote in the past. Trying to deal with Gretchen and Lydia, Dennis' friend Thurston has some how hacked in the correctional facility to help Lydia escape. Reasons for this act are not clearly informed in the movie. now Lydia is out of jail and Thurston now in custody, puts Dennis in a world of lies, deciet, and murder. Other fellow cast members include Ernie Hudson who gives a great supporting actn and Udo Kier. Watch and enjoy.