Homage

In New Mexico, the widow and former teacher Katherine Samuel (Blythe Danner) reluctantly hires the lonely mathematician and genius Archie Landrum (Frank Whaley) to be her gardener and soon they become good friends. When her estranged daughter Lucille "Lucy" Samuel (Sheryl Lee), who left the college to become a television star in New York, decides to spend a couple of days with her mother, Archie becomes obsessed for her. Lucy and her mother reconciled to each other and Lucy decides to quit her career to stay with Katherine. However the obsessive Archie guns Lucy down witnessed by Katherine and is arrested. The ambitious local lawyer Joseph Smith prepares to defend him seeking the spotlights. Meanwhile, Archie mocks the Mexican Officer Gilbert Tellez (Danny Nucci), who is the guardian of his cell, and plans to seem a lunatic to escape from the death penalty. Will justice work?

"Homage" is an interesting drama, with a story in he style of a documentary with the incident disclosed in the beginning, flashbacks and the persons involved interviewed along the film. The conclusion with the vigilante act of a correct police officer shows how people do not believe in the justice system. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Obsessão Criminosa" ("Criminal Obsession")