Judas Kiss (1998)

A couple and 2 hired hands kidnap a business owner for a $4,000,000 ransom. A woman is killed. Collateral damage? FBI gets involved.

Director:

Sebastian Gutierrez

Writers:

Sebastian Gutierrez (screenplay), Sebastian Gutierrez (story)

Stars:

Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Carla Gugino

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Carla Gugino	...	Coco Chavez
Simon Baker	...	Junior Armstrong (as Simon Baker-Denny)
Emma Thompson	...	FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
Alan Rickman	...	Detective David Friedman
Gil Bellows	...	Lizard Browning
Til Schweiger	...	Ruben Rubenbauer
Hal Holbrook	...	Senator Rupert Hornbeck
Philip Baker Hall	...	Pobby Malavero
Joey Slotnick	...	Walters
Greg Wise	...	Ben Dyson
Lisa Eichhorn	...	Mary-Ellen Floyd
Richard Riehle	...	Security Guard
Beverly Hotsprings	...	Space Vixen
Roscoe Lee Browne	...	Chief Bleeker
Tom Hodges	...	Jake

Storyline

A woman and her lover, who have made a living by running sex scams at hotels, decide to enter the big time by kidnapping a computer company owner and demanding $4 million ransom. The two hire a tech wizard and a muscle man, who amuses himself by playing Russian roulette. Things go awry during the kidnapping when a neighbor is killed, who turns out to be the wife of a powerful senator. As things develop, it turns out that the murder may not have been as accidental as it originally appeared. Slowly things unveil to not to be everything that was originally thought.

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Plot Keywords:

woman murders a woman | murderess | venezuela | kidnapping | senator | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, strong sexuality and language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 April 1999 (Austria)

Also Known As:

El beso de Judas

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bandeira Entertainment, Flynn/Simchowitz, Key Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

The porn video seen at the beginning of the film continues to play on a monitor after the tape has been ejected.

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Quotes

Ruben Rubenbauer: I've never quit nothing... unless you count school, but that wasn't my fault.

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Connections

References Peter Pan (1953)

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Soundtracks

Tandem Jump
Written and Performed by Jonathan Richman

User Reviews

Unexpected pleasure

I caught this on cable. It started out well but I figured it would fall apart eventually but instead it got better and better. I don't know why it went to cable so fast and why there are currently no reviews in the database. It was an entertaining caper movie with great characters and truly unsuspected twists and turns set in New Orleans. Watch for great scenes: the Senators (Holbrook) put down of the detective ' .. don't ever even look at me again...' as well as later, Holbrook's "Apologize!' scene; the muscleman Reuben's method of showing how tough he is ; Coco's sexual heat scenes, Lizard's battle of wits with a determined FBI agent Sadie (Emma);Sadie (Emma Thompson) and (Rickman's) clever repartee. I did find the audio a bit difficult to follow because of background noise and character accents, and why an accountant was assigned by the corporation to deal with the kidnappers was unclear but on the whole an 8 out of 10 film.