Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America, burdened with enormous taxes, college tuitions, and unappreciative children. Also large, split-level homes and two-car garages. In Split Image, the Stetson family doesn't have it so easy. Despite a burglar alarm and extensive insurance, these upstanding citizens lose their son--body and soul--to a cult...
Although Split Image doesn't manage to come up with a cult scenario. It does have a few things in its favor--for instance, its cast and its glimpse into suburban life. Unfortunately, its plot only updates a typical cult scenario with scenes designed for a 1982 teenage audience. It's not that cult sex is uninteresting; it's just not enough to create an award-winning film...
...Volvo, his golden retriever goes to doggy school, and his kid brother watches video-cassettes all day. Yet there's a void in Danny's life. At some point in his golden youth, something snaps--he trades in his already paved road to success for possessionless servitude in a cult. Michael O'Keefe--the blue-eyed actor last seen as the disturbed son in The Great Santini--does a fine job portraying the troubled Danny. Yet his precarious insecurity, although true to life, becomes unconvincing in the context of some of the movie's other, more outrageous characters...
Through a series of events, climaxing in a weekend retreat. Danny enters the eerie world of "Homeland" Although he is initially drawn to the group by a woman--Rebecca--whom he meets in a restaurant, he soon fails under the spell of the cult's leader. Neal Kirklander (Peter Fonda). An incredible synthesis of Jim Jones, the Reverend Moon, and Jesus Christ. Kirklander completely dominates his followers lives. At a spacious country estate, he entertains his "guests" in barrack-like dorms and large meeting rooms (With its white-stone facade, the compound looks more like an architect's model than...
...deprogrammer who saves Danny, James Woods is the perfect foil for the maniacal Kirklander. Over-acting at every turn, Woods makes even the cult leader look human. By the time he gets his clutches on Danny--ostensibly to save him from the cult--he's behaving just as despotically as his arch-rival. The two men look strikingly similar and have so many of the same insane idiosyncrasies that by the end of the movie we're not sure that Danny's isn't just being converted to another obsession...