Movie Type: Psychological Thriller, Crime Thriller
Themes: Teachers and Students, Double Life, Haunted By the Past
Main Cast: James Belushi, Linda Hamilton, Vera Miles, Elisabeth Moss, Drew Snyder
Release Year: 1995
Country: US
Run Time: 101 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
This psychological thriller was cowritten by Steven Pressfield, who went on to become a successful novelist with The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and historical fiction such as Gates of Fire and Tides of War. Linda Hamilton stars as Lauren Porter, a well-regarded professor of psychology who fears that she may be suffering from multiple personality disorder. As a young girl, she received psychological scars when her mother murdered her stepfather and then committed suicide. She approaches one of her students, Tom Beckwith (James Belushi), a former cop who has quit the force in order to study psychology, and tells him of her concerns. Although he is struggling with his own relationship with his daughter, Beckwith agrees to trail Porter, and before long she has indeed slipped into a totally different personality, that of Lena, a club-hopping swinger. When Lena gets into trouble with a man she's picked up, Beckwith intervenes and receives a brutal beating. Soon, the murder of an investigator and the death of Porter's ex-husband are laid at her feet. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
Mark Lindsay Chapman - Keno, Sykes; Elizabeth Arlen - Dee Harris; Ken Kerman - Detective Boyle; Ara Maxwell - Young Lauren Porter; Tom Morga - Carl; Marc Poppel - Detective Joe Gallo; Craig Stepp - David Mills; Lisa Vanderpump - Heidi Porter; Josh Taylor - Charles Duffy; Rob Morton - Band Member
Credit
Walter Cahall - Art Director, Andrew Hersh - Co-producer, Jacqueline G. Arthur - Costume Designer, John E. Vohlers - First Assistant Director, David Madden - Director, Janice Hampton - Editor, Robert W. Cort - Executive Producer, Ted Field - Executive Producer, William Olvis - Composer (Music Score), Bernt Amadeus Capra - Production Designer, Kees Van Oostrum - Cinematographer, Mark Amin - Producer, Diane Nabatoff - Producer, Susan Stremple - Producer, Guy Riedel - Producer, Guy Reidel - Producer, Karin Mcgaughey - Set Designer, John Sutton III - Sound/Sound Designer, Steven Pressfield - Screenwriter, Gloria Norris - Screenwriter
