I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of Richard Gere but I decided to watch this thriller as one in a series of movies with Keith David (probably the actor with the most magnificent voice ever!) and also for the other cast members, And when it ended I was so surprised that it has a score of 5,9 as it was even better than that.
Isaac Barr (Gere) is a psychiatrist that has a young woman (Uma Thurman) with a recurrent dream of flowers burning on a table as one of his patients. One day her older sister Heather (Kim Basinger) goes to an appointment to Barr's office as she wants to discuss her sister's progresses. Heather falls in love with Isaac but trouble is behind the corner as her very controlling husband Jimmy (Eric Roberts) suspects that she is having an affair and even menaces Isaac when he notices him in a restaurant and suspects that he gave a look to his wife. Heather takes some insulin but exaggerates with the dose and kills her husband with a barbell. However Heather is found not guilty because of temporary insanity, but she is confined at a psychiatric facility, where Isaac promises her that she will be out in a few weeks. Outside the facility he meets Detective Huggins (David) that suggests Barr that Heather might have killed her husband for insuring his life policy of 4 milion dollars. After a while Diana lets her hair grow like Heather's and for retrieving the barbell Heather goes outside the hospital and Diana remains instead of her sister. After Heather takes Isaac and Huggins at gunpoint they go on the lighthouse. A rainstorm comes and Isaac and Heather run in the lighthouse. When they arrive at a balcony it starts to fall; Huggins, who managed to arrive just in time, pulls the balcony and Heather falls to her death. Diana is tried as Heather's accomplice but is found not guilty. In the ending scene we see Diana seducing a man and telling him that she has a condition for which she shouldn't drink as she poses as her twin sister... and the viewer would guess what could happen next!
I appreciated this thriller for its suspense factor (very reminiscent of the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers) and I nearly gasped at every twist and turn. There were very tense scenes (such as when Heather kills her husband or the ending in the lighthouse) and it added a lot to the chill factor. The acting is very nice by the performers: Richard Gere gives one of his best performances ever, Uma Thurman gives one of her most complex considering the type of movie she is famous for, Eric Roberts despite being among the top billed performers he has brief screen time and Keith David gives one of his most memorable performances with that incredibly deep voice of his. Kim Basinger is the standout as other than being super hot she is incredibly good as the main villain of the movie.
Overall, this is a very underrated thriller that fans of the genre will no doubt love and they don't have necessarily to be fans of some of the actors in the cast for liking it. Despite I am not a huge fan of thrillers I kinda liked it even more than it's current IMDB score of 5,9 might have influenced me.
Isaac Barr (Gere) is a psychiatrist that has a young woman (Uma Thurman) with a recurrent dream of flowers burning on a table as one of his patients. One day her older sister Heather (Kim Basinger) goes to an appointment to Barr's office as she wants to discuss her sister's progresses. Heather falls in love with Isaac but trouble is behind the corner as her very controlling husband Jimmy (Eric Roberts) suspects that she is having an affair and even menaces Isaac when he notices him in a restaurant and suspects that he gave a look to his wife. Heather takes some insulin but exaggerates with the dose and kills her husband with a barbell. However Heather is found not guilty because of temporary insanity, but she is confined at a psychiatric facility, where Isaac promises her that she will be out in a few weeks. Outside the facility he meets Detective Huggins (David) that suggests Barr that Heather might have killed her husband for insuring his life policy of 4 milion dollars. After a while Diana lets her hair grow like Heather's and for retrieving the barbell Heather goes outside the hospital and Diana remains instead of her sister. After Heather takes Isaac and Huggins at gunpoint they go on the lighthouse. A rainstorm comes and Isaac and Heather run in the lighthouse. When they arrive at a balcony it starts to fall; Huggins, who managed to arrive just in time, pulls the balcony and Heather falls to her death. Diana is tried as Heather's accomplice but is found not guilty. In the ending scene we see Diana seducing a man and telling him that she has a condition for which she shouldn't drink as she poses as her twin sister... and the viewer would guess what could happen next!
I appreciated this thriller for its suspense factor (very reminiscent of the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers) and I nearly gasped at every twist and turn. There were very tense scenes (such as when Heather kills her husband or the ending in the lighthouse) and it added a lot to the chill factor. The acting is very nice by the performers: Richard Gere gives one of his best performances ever, Uma Thurman gives one of her most complex considering the type of movie she is famous for, Eric Roberts despite being among the top billed performers he has brief screen time and Keith David gives one of his most memorable performances with that incredibly deep voice of his. Kim Basinger is the standout as other than being super hot she is incredibly good as the main villain of the movie.
Overall, this is a very underrated thriller that fans of the genre will no doubt love and they don't have necessarily to be fans of some of the actors in the cast for liking it. Despite I am not a huge fan of thrillers I kinda liked it even more than it's current IMDB score of 5,9 might have influenced me.