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Summary: New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt... (imdb)
Poster submitted by toro913Starring: John Lithgow, Geneviève Bujold, Cliff Robertson, J. Patrick McNamara, Stocker Fontelieu, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Wanda Blackman, Don Hood, Thomas Carr, Stanley J. Reyes, Nick Kreiger, Andrea Esterhazy
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It's decent, sure, but let's be honest here: it's kind of hard to fuck up when your chief inspiration is something as flawless as Vertigo. To Brian De Palma's credit, he's actually found a way to make the story even crazier. And I know I'm retarded for even characterizing this as a flaw, but my god is this cheesy. It's cheesier than a pizza at a Fat Pride convention. It fucking oozes it. That's part of the appeal, I suppose, so if you're in the mood for that, go for it. Fatty.
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There's a slew of both cult and popular elements De Palma's toying with here, Hitchcock being the easy choice with the initial plot pieces & evocative score by Herrmann. It goes into some insane territory, yet it hardly seems to matter, it almost seems predestined. Truly twisted.
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"Another of De Palma's fearlessly experimental whims." - Eric Henderson
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Its Vertigo shot through Italian genre cinema, but is something unique, a Brian De Palma film, something I haven't seen in a long while. The final twists suspend disbelief, and yet I have to admire a film that a) becomes a beautifully melancholic romance in the middle, and b) has a dreamlike mood that is artificial yet potent, the films of the 1950s (Bernard Herrmann's score links this to its Hitchcockian forefather) brought to De Palma's era where not all is what it seems even more so.
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best happy ending ever.
and how freakin awesome is that childhood flashback?!?!?!
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Well that was predictable (and totally ridiculous).
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I've only seen a very poor copy of this but I kinda liked it, it had a soapy, dream-like feel to it reminiscent of the works of David Lynch.
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A very interesting movie that deceptively misrepresents itself as hard to believe... and I don't expect you to get what that means until you've watched this. The filtered picture and awkwardly minimal dialogue help make this look a bit like a soap opera. I am not a De Palma fan, but strangely, this movie is actually helped by his otherwise corny kind of filmmaking.
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Blatant Vertigo ripoff.
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It benefits from De Palma's usual flair, but the story is far-fetched, and the twist is predictable.
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Lots of cheese. Stylish cheese.
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Most of Brian de Palma is for me unwatchable. But here like an oasis is this lovely remix of VERTIGO that really had an impact on me when I first saw it. I can't describe my favorite shot as it would spoil the ending -- but it remains one of my favorite scenes in any film, ever, and Bujold knocks it out of the ballpark. Robertson is given the full emotional palette to play with, and he really delivers. A very immersive and seductive movie, if one is willing to meet it halfway.
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