Main Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol, Vincent Laresca
Release Year: 1999
Country: US/UK
Run Time: 115 minutes
Plot
Writer/director Paul Schrader explored his well-documented interest in film noir with this modern-day crime story. A horribly disfigured man named Manuel Esquema (Joseph Fiennes) is called upon to help out Mark Brice (Ray Liotta), a former city councilman in a wealthy New York community. Brice has been accused of some serious financial irregularities, and Esquema is the sort of "fixer" who might be able to make his problems go away. Mark, however, doesn't recognize Esquema as the former Alan Ripley, who was working as a towel boy at the Florida resort where Mark and his wife Ella (Gretchen Mol) were honeymooning shortly after their marriage. Alan became obsessed with Ella the moment he saw her, and before long the two were engaged in a torrid affair. Ripley urged Ella to leave Mark for him, but she refused; Ripley followed them to New York, and when Ella eventually confessed her infidelity to Mark, he responded by shooting off half of Alan's face. Alan survives and builds a new (and sinister) life for himself, but when Mark hires Esquema to help him, the former Alan's obsession with Ella blooms anew. Forever Mine was screened in competition at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Paul Denham Austerberry - Art Director, Ellen Chenoweth - Casting, Kathleen Chopin - Casting, Joseph Boccia - Co-producer, Marit Allen - Costume Designer, Walter Gasparovic - First Assistant Director, Paul Schrader - Director, Kristina Boden - Editor, Julia Palau - Executive Producer, Matthew Payne - Executive Producer, Angelo Badalamenti - Composer (Music Score), Robert MacKintosh - Musical Direction/Supervision, François Séguin - Production Designer, John Bailey - Cinematographer, Amy J. Kaufman - Producer, Damita Nikapota - Producer, Kathleen Haase - Producer, Cal Lukes - Set Designer, Dominick Tavella - Sound/Sound Designer, Paul Soucek - Sound Editor, Paul Schrader - Screenwriter, Stephen F. Campbell - Second Unit Director Of Photography
Alan Riply (Fiennes), a young cabana boy working at an opulent beach hotel, falls in love with Ellen Brice (Mol), the wife of business mogul Mark Brice (Liotta). Ellen returns his love, but when Mark finds out he has Alan shot and buried alive. Though badly scarred, Alan survives and works his way to the position of an eminent criminal attorney with underworld connections, under the name of Manuel Esquema. When Brice runs into legal trouble, Esquema is ready to help him for a price.
Quote: Brice: "I'm going to kill you, then I'm going to kill her, and then I'm going to kill myself. You see - I'm a romantic, too."
Production
This movie was filmed in St. Petersburg, Florida at The Don CeSar Beach Resort, located at St. Pete. Beach.
