Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is a thriller that owes more to Peter Sellers than to John le Carre. In 1984, when the bumbling 250-lb. Miller was arrested after having an affair with a Soviet agent and giving her a handbook on U.S. counterintelligence techniques, the FBI was shocked. It shouldn't have been. On a $50,000 salary, Miller was attempting to support a wife, eight children, a Los Angeles bungalow and a San Diego County farm...
Clarice (Jodie Foster) is the hero of The Silence of the Lambs, a pretty sharp new thriller about a woman poised between two multiple murderers: one a sad sadist (Ted Levine) who flays his victims to "harvest their hides," the other an evil genius (Anthony Hopkins) who might be amused to help Starling solve the crimes. With or without him, she is bound to achieve her double mission. She will save a young woman whom a madman has put down a deep hole, and she will prove herself up to doing...
Vermont's big gun is Captain John LeClair (19-17-36). The senior forward returned from injury last season to almost singlehandedly beat Harvard, 3-2, in an overtime thriller in Burlington, Vermont...
...into a minor movie. Its characters are too small and twisted for sympathy; its pace is too studied, a little too in awe of its artfulness, to pack a wallop. It needs to move, but doesn't, at the pace a bus-station reader would devour a paperback thriller...
...will be tested with the release of Sleeping with the Enemy, a subordinary thriller with the requisite tingles and cheats expected of a woman-in-jeopardy melodrama. Here Roberts is Laura Burney, abused wife. Her husband Martin (Patrick Bergin) oozes empathy and flares into brutality. If she does anything wrong, or nothing wrong, he will beat her into zombie silence. So Laura fakes her own death and flees to small-town safety in the care of a solicitous drama teacher (Kevin Anderson). But Martin is as tenacious as he is possessive. The Beast will find Beauty. And Laura will again...