Word: rutger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alternate world where Hitler has won World War II, an SS officer (Rutger Hauer) and an American reporter (Miranda Richardson) stumble on the Nazis' terrible secret, in this suspenseful, well-paced adaptation of Robert Harris' best seller...
...courageous ones are Miranda Richardson, as an American reporter sucked into the mystery, and Rutger Hauer, as an SS officer who can't let a tough case drop. Hauer's Aryan good looks have settled nicely into middle age; he has both more solidity and more sensitivity now. The scenes between him and his young son are as touching and chilling as anything on TV all year. The film's melodramatic finish is more upbeat than the novel's, but nearly every moment is gripping, intelligent, uncompromising. It took a Nazi victory, alas, to create the first movie about...
...Earlene Pomerleau (Martha Plimpton) watches the Beans' messy comings and goings through her picture window, paying particular attention to hunky Beal Bean (Patrick McGaw), who is not paying much attention to her. He's sleeping with his father's common-law wife, Roberta (Kelly Lynch), while the old man (Rutger Hauer) does time in jail for beating a game warden half to death. This drama is, as Earlene says, better than watching television: it is live, and it is X-rated...