False Pretense - Appearances are deceptive

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Movie
German title False Pretense - Appearances are deceptive
Original title Dead end
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Douglas Jackson
script Karl Schiffman
production Tom Berry ,
Stefan Wodoslawsky
music Milan Kymlička
camera Georges Archambault
cut Claude Palardy
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False Pretense (Original title: Dead End ) is a Canadian crime thriller from 1998. The German alternative television title is In the Star Sign of Death . The main role was played by Eric Roberts .

action

Katie Compton, it looks like, is committing suicide. The police officer, Henry Smovinsky, who was married to her years ago, receives custody of their sixteen-year-old son Adam. Both are strangers and don't get along well at first.

Henry finds out that his ex-wife was a high-class prostitute in the police milieu and was murdered. Henry's colleague, Maggie Furness, suspects Adam going into hiding. Henry is later suspected. He finds Adam and, together with him, searches for the real murderer who was a suitor in Katie's apartment. When her son got home, there was an argument and scuffle with the customer, causing Katie to fall over the balcony railing. The guilty policeman Dennis tries to kill Adam and Henry, but is shot dead by Maggie in self-defense. In a happy ending, Henry, Adam, Maggie and their daughter are united in a family idyll.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the thriller was "consistent" but had a tempo problem because it focused on family history.

this and that

Eliza Roberts , who plays Maggie Furness, is married to Eric Roberts .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ False Pretense - Appearances are deceptive. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used