Word: biderman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Screenwriters Ann Biderman and David Madsen are copycats too, primarily of Thomas Harris' terrific novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Copycat is also faithful to other melodramatic conventions. The sympathetic gay friend will be killed. The brilliant schemer will go implausibly stupid at the climax. And the filmmakers will forget what Harris knows: that there is great horror and pathos inside these creatures. A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste...