Word: psychopathic
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...close range, the man walked up the line of cars, then down, killing two CIA employees and wounding three others. In the chaos of shattered glass, screams and blood, he returned to his car and drove away. Was it a calculated hit or the demented act of a lonely psychopath? Police took all the usual steps: examining fingerprints on one victim's car, retrieving a spent shell casing, checking local gun shops for recent purchases of semiautomatic weapons and stopping commuters along Dolley Madison Boulevard in hopes of finding further witnesses. At week's end the killer and his motive...
...never read Vanity Fair, let alone appeared on its cover). Instinctively sensing that a cover-up is in the making, she keeps hectoring Kaffee toward heroism. The antagonist is Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, Marine commander at Gitmo, not so much played as demonized by Jack Nicholson -- a wickedly smart psychopath, utterly self-confident and self-righteous. Nicholson sees the humor in this dark character but then freezes each potential laugh with a gaze that is hostile to anything not on his own agenda...
...this interracial family (from hell) is not to be. Helen kills Candyman and takes over for him as number one hook-wielding psychopath. The spirit of Candyman lives on, but in a lily white--albeit burnt--body. Racial integration is possible on a very limited scale. Whites can integrate Black culture but cannot mingle with Blacks...
...Liotta) has some very weird ideas about protecting and serving Michael and Karen Carr (Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe). He comes to investigate a burglary at their house and stays to hit on her and harass him, after Michael sees through his bulletproof vest of politesse to the psychopath beneath. Liotta's chilly boyishness is hypnotic. Jonathan Kaplan's film is a little distant and a lot manipulative, as it reminds some of us paranoiacs that you don't have to be Rodney King to get more police attention than you really want or need...
...begins slowly, because the filmmakers couldn't find a way to jump-start their comic premise. It ends with a conventional promise of happily-ever- aftering, even though its cute central psychopath remains entirely uncured. But in the middle, Housesitter develops an infectious and quite original giddiness: it may be the first movie ever to play congenital lying for laughs and more or less get away with...