Consenting Adults (1992)

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.