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Consenting Adults (1992)

Director:
Alan J. Pakula

COUNTRY
USA

Genre
Thriller

NORWEGIAN TITLE
Lek med døden

RUNNING TIME
95 minutes

Producer:
Alan J. Pakula
David Permut

Screenwriter:
Matthew Chapman


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Richard Parker Kevin Kline ½

Priscilla Parker

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Eddy Otis

Kevin Spacey

½
Kay Otis Rebecca Miller ½
David Duttonville Forest Whitaker ½
George Gutton E. G. Marshall -

 

Review

An entry in the psychopath killer sub-genre that was popularized in the early 1990s. The plot is never close to holding up, and towards the end, director Alan J. Pakula doesn't even try to cover up the shortcomings in Matthew Chapman's script, but for the majority of its running time, he manages to do just that through fine pacing and a smouldering build-up. The film looks and plays like a bona fide thriller, with Kevin Kline giving a sympathetic performance deserving of a better denouement not based around a staged showdown with a cartoon villain. The screenwriter continued in the same mould with Color of Night two years later.

Copyright © 26.12.2021 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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