Word: uma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thank you, Danny. And now Bill is very good at something else. In John McNaughton's Mad Dog and Glory, he's a loan-shark boss who shows his gratitude to a cop, Robert De Niro, by sending him a woman, Uma Thurman, for a week's pleasure. The movie is a little gimpy, and I wanted to fast-forward during the reaction shots. And you know our guy is playing the villain, because he goes to White Sox games and Bill is a famous Cubs fan. But, hey, he's molto impressive. He drops his voice half an octave...
...also encountered situations like this before: a brutal serial killer is out there stalking young women -- in this case, blind young women -- and baffled law-enforcement officials are in denial. No, the latest disappearance could not possibly represent his seventh depredation. No way could Helena (Uma Thurman), who, although blind, is a witness in the case, be his next target...
...ANALYSIS? Because "there are a lot of lunatics out there!" At least three of them are at large in this steamy Hitchcock knockoff -- mostly from Vertigo. A psychiatrist (Richard Gere, with his famous hair and casual sexual authority) blunders into toxic relationships with two wily sisters (Kim Basinger and Uma Thurman). Soon, despite her married bondage to creepy contractor Eric Roberts, Basinger takes Gere to bed. Their mandatory sex scene is shot in tiger stripes of light and shadow, as if it were an R-rated outtake from the Nature series. The four gorgeous leads aren't playing characters here...
Basinger, and Uma Thurman...
...begin in the office of San Francisco psychiatrist Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) as he listens attentively to patient Diana Baylor (Uma Thurmond). "I've had the dream again," she confides, haunted. "I'm arranging flowers as a centerpiece...