Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Theresa Russell | ... | Marie Davenport | |
Mark Harmon | ... | Alex Davenport | |
James Russo | ... | Daniel Corvin | |
Will Patton | ... | Father Niles | |
Richard Bradford | ... | Monsignor Cassidy | |
Julie Carmen | ... | Anna Corvin | |
Talia Shire | ... | Sister Martha | |
Diana Douglas | ... | Mother St. Agnes | |
Seymour Cassel | ... | Tom Farrelly | |
Castulo Guerra | ... | Dr. DeMencos | |
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Daniel Ades | ... | Dr. Mendes (as Daniel Addes) |
Jim Ishida | ... | Dr. Tanaki | |
Jeanette Miller | ... | Sister Katarina | |
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Martha Milliken | ... | Sister Anna |
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Margarita Cordova | ... | Registrar |
A woman is planning to leave her husband for another man when hubby has a nasty accident. She keeps getting flashbacks of something compelling that had happened to her a year before, which builds to a supernatural encounter. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Nicolas Roeg ? He directed the classic supernatural thriller DON`T LOOK NOW didn`t he ? Strangely the aforementioned movie was broadcast on BBC television at the weekend which did tonight`s screening of COLD HEAVEN no favours what so ever .
You see it`s impossible not to compare COLD HEAVEN with DON`T LOOK NOW since they both have the same director and the same structure and for the first third of COLD HEAVEN I thought they also had the same plot except a dead husband had been substituted instead of a dead child , in fact my mind was set on this movie revolving around a grief stricken widow seeing her late husband running around Venice wearing a red anorak . This doesn`t occur but about one third of the way through the running time there`s a massive plot twist and despite being an essential plot twist it`s not explained in any great depth . In fact very little is explained in COLD HEAVEN which ruins the movie
People have mentioned the rather poor production values of COLD HEAVEN and it`s impossible not to notice them . If I didn`t no different I would have thought this was a TVM since it`s got a made for television feel to it right down to white capital letters in the title sequence . Roeg also tries to inject art house pretentions via spoken thought processes but again this doesn`t help the movie at all . One can`t help feeling Roeg should have put all his effort into the plot twists which are totally flat on screen
Cheap production values , disinterested directing and a really bizarre premise and screenplay make for a bad movie