Word: twins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line -- in which the family scion (a well-cast James Spader) runs for Congress, investigates a murder in which he could be implicated and sorts out the circumstances surrounding his father's suicide -- is twisty and full of colorful characters and weird behavior. Director Mark Frost, co-creator of Twin Peaks, has made a good-looking movie, combining intellectual ambition with darkly glamorous conflicts between private demons and public trust. Storyville is good, serious...
...tasteful to a fault, the group have become acolytes of an eccentric Greek scholar who demands that what few pupils he takes study only his curriculum. There is Henry, rich, seductive, depraved; Francis, a homosexual with a very convenient house in the nearby hills; Athena-like Camilla and her twin Charles. Charles drinks too much, but then they all do, including Bunny, the feckless, unreliable...
...audiences are with old movie plots. Fonda and Leigh, two gifted, diligent actresses, work hard to find subtleties in their characters: the sweet thing who must locate her angry strength and the sick thing who has been trying to duplicate herself in other women's images ever since her twin sister died. Director Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune) sweats too, swathing the mayhem in dusky tones, shifting moods easily from working-girl realism to nightmare melodrama. Yet the piece moves so deliberately that the viewer is able to anticipate the next atrocity, rather than getting thrilled...
...genre has never bothered Brian De Palma. He has been considered a Hitchcock groupie for so long that, by now, the slur seems like a badge. The plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing to save her life? What...
...such a stupid thing?" Single White Female gets its best thrills early on, when Hedy is falling in love with Allie -- and filling the void inside both of them. Sisterhood never looked so vulnerable. "You haven't been yourself," Allie says to Hedy. "I know," her would-be twin replies. "I've been...