Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hans Canosa's direction created a play that moved and changed focus as often as our dreams do in one night. Canosa showed intelligence, insight and imagination in exploring classic psycho-analytic notions of dream sequencing, wish fulfillment and repression...
...Mornay plays the Nanny from Hell, who insinuates herself into the home of a trusting family only to wreak havoc on it. In the weeks after the film climbed to No. 1, earning a stunning $65 million, magazines and newspapers have scurried to find real-life examples of psycho-nannies, which in turn drove home the not-so-subtle message that women who work and leave child rearing to others are courting disaster and had best hurry home...
Wynn Dalton, a down-on-his-luck dinner-theater actor, finally gets a break: pegged as a dead ringer for serial killer Dwayne Gary Steckler, he is cast as the fugitive psycho for a segment of All Points Bulletin, a catch-the-criminal show patterned after America's Most Wanted. His appearance is a hit with everybody but the real killer -- who disposes of the actor, assumes his identity and sets out to give the role some real authenticity. That's just the starting point for PUBLIC ENEMY 2, an ingenious comedy special tucked into Showtime's schedule this month...
...Cape Fear for release next week, it is uniquely Scorsese's picture -- he couldn't sell out if he wanted to. The film is violent, excessive and, above all, entertaining; it anticipates, satisfies and then trumps the moviegoer's expectations. It plunders film history (The Night of the Hunter, Psycho, even Spielberg's shooting stars) and creates, in De Niro's character, a loner driven to impossible extremes by the voices inside him. He is brother to Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle and Raging Bull's Jake La Motta, and evil twin to Jesus in Scorsese's The Last Temptation...
Eberhart is more reserved. "Something is really occurring here. We don't know if it's a psycho-spiritual thing or if aliens really are abducting people. But even if it is some bizarre mental problem, it would still be interesting...