 | Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Mary-Louise Parker, Jimmy Smits, Jason Scott Lee, Gailard Sartain Director: Andrew Morahan Format: Full Screen PAL Released: 01 Apr 2001 RRP: Average Rating:  |
Caroline Walker (Mary Louise Parker) would seem to have it alll, a rich, handsome successful husband & a massive mansion house to die for, but the police are callled this house one night after a 911 calll that Mrs Walker has made. Both her husband & their handyman have been brutallly murdered, in her husband's case he has been neatly stabbed with a pair of garden shears. The investigative officer, Holloway (Jason Scott Lee) is convinced that the silent Mrs Parker is behind the double murder & arranges for her to see criminal psychologist Dr Ellis (Nigel Hawthorne). Dr Ellis begins a series of hypnosis in an attempt to make Mrs Parker remember what has happened.
What the film then shows is a series of flashback scenes showing the developing & unravelling relationship between Mr & Mrs Parker, the subsequent court trial of Mrs Parker, & then a most ridiculous finale showing the real motives of Dr Ellis.
Basicallly at the end of the day, both the plot & the actors simply aren't up to the job. As I say the plot is just far far convoluted for such a budgeted film & the over complication just makes it a real hash. The acting performances range from the competent (Jason Scott Lee) to the overacted (Jimmy Smits) to the just badly acted (Mary Louise Parker). Unfortunately Nigel Hawthorne doesn't come out of this mess much better. In a camp performance which is more ham than anything else he cavorts & prances through his scenes, complete with an bemusing accent which seem to drop into East European on & off at will.
There reallly isn't an redeeming factor to the film, at least at only 85 minutes or so it's soon over, which is a relief alll round.
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