Ice cold passion

Movie
German title	Ice cold passion
Original title	Final Analysis
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1992
length	120 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Phil Joanou
script	Robert Berger , Wesley Strick
production	Paul Junge Witt , Charles Roven , Tony Thomas
music	George Fenton
camera	Jordan Cronenweth
cut	Thom Noble
occupation
Richard Gere : Dr. Isaac Barr Kim Basinger : Heather Evans Uma Thurman : Diana Baylor Eric Roberts : Jimmy Evans Paul Guilfoyle : Mike O'Brien Keith David : Detective Huggins Robert Harper : Alan Lowenthal Agustin Rodriguez : Pepe Carrero Rita Zohar : Dr. Horror George Murdock : Judge Costello Shirley Prestia : DA Kaufman Tony Genaro : Hector Wood Moy : Doctor Lee Corey Fischer : Forensic Doctor Harris Yulin : Prosecutor

Ice Cold Passion (Original Title: Final Analysis ) is an American thriller by director Phil Joanou from 1992 with Richard Gere , Kim Basinger and Uma Thurman in the lead roles.

action

In San Francisco psychiatrist Isaac Barr active treated Diana Baylor, a woman with traumatic memories from her childhood. One day her sister, Heather Evans, comes to his practice to help with the treatment with her knowledge of her childhood. Heather, who is married to a Greek gangster, and Barr start an affair.

One day, Heather gets Barr to touch the bar of a dumbbell that she later uses to murder her husband, Jimmy Evans. In order to collect his $ 4 million life insurance policy, she tries to blame Barr for the murder. To make the plan possible, she let her sister play along. Heather wants to hand over the dumbbell with the fingerprints to the investigating Detective Huggins, but Barr, who recognizes the plot and has also found appropriate evidence, appears at the place of delivery and touches the dumbbell again, so that the plan fails.

Realizing that prison is waiting for her, Heather kidnaps Barr and Huggins to kill them. There is a showdown in a lighthouse and Heather is killed by both of them in self-defense . Following the events, Diana is considered an unwitting tool in her sister's plans after an investigation and is left alone.

background

The film was shot in San Francisco and Los Angeles . It grossed $ 28.6 million in US cinemas .

Part of the plot (a woman named Heather escapes from a mental hospital with the help of an unstable accomplice and with a false identity and shoots someone down) occurred in the 1981 US television series General Hospital .

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on February 7, 1992 that Hitchcock would like the script. He praised the score for the film and the sex scenes, but criticized the complexity of the plot.

Rita Kempley criticized in the Washington Post on February 7, 1992 that the thriller was implausible . She praised some of the performances ( this film has ... several enjoyable performances ).

"Visually attractive, but equally meaningful and transparent imitation of Hitchcock models with only a few surprising twists."

- Lexicon of international film

"First good, then exciting intrigue game"

- Cinema

Awards

• Kim Basinger was nominated for the MTV Movie Award in 1992 .
• Kim Basinger, the photography and the script were nominated for the Golden Raspberry in 1993.

Web links

• Final Analysis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ice cold passion in the online film database
• Final Analysis for rotten tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Filming locations for Final Analysis
2. ↑ Business Data for Final Analysis
3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
4. ^ Critique by Rita Kempley
5. ↑ ICE COLD PASSION Cinema . Retrieved February 6, 2018.