Deadly thoughts

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Movie
German title Deadly thoughts
Original title Mortal Thoughts
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Alan Rudolph
script William Reilly ,
Claude Kerven
production John Fiedler ,
Mark Tarlov
music Mark Isham
camera Elliot Davis
cut Tom Walls
occupation

Deadly Thoughts (Original title: Mortal Thoughts ) is an American feature film from 1991 . The director was Alan Rudolph and the script was written by William Reilly and Claude Kerven . The leading roles were played by Demi Moore , Glenne Headly and Bruce Willis .

action

Joyce Urbanski and Cynthia Kellogg are best friends who both work in the same hair salon. Both are married to different types of men, Cynthia with the introverted businessman Arthur Kellogg and Joyce with the vicious, rowdy proletarian James “Jimmy” Urbanski. After Arthur Kellogg is shot by Joyce Urbanski, Cynthia goes to the police and is questioned by police detective John Woods. She begins to tell him the story and the film shows the action in flashbacks. Joyce's husband, James, was often violent, using cash from the barbershop, and there were numerous arguments and even death threats. Eventually, James is killed in a fairground parking lot, according to Cynthia accidentally during his argument with Joyce. Joyce and Cynthia clear the body. Suspecting a murder case, Woods wonders why Cynthia didn't take any of Joyce's previous death threats seriously. When Cynthia returns home covered in blood, her husband Arthur wants to call the police for a moment. He later refrains from doing so, but demands that Cynthia never see her friend Joyce again. When she doesn't keep to it, Arthur wants to leave her. Joyce fears Arthur might call the police after all. Woods wonders why, even after the first manslaughter , Cynthia didn't take Joyce seriously when she threatened to kill Arthur.

The interrogation ends and Cynthia is released. In the car, she remembers what it really was like: She killed James when he tried to rape her. She returns to the police station and wants to tell Woods the whole truth.

Reviews

  • epd Film 9/1991: To be held in such a joyful way, together with the idiosyncratic performance, makes you forget for a long time that the story itself and its construction keeps getting stuck. In the end, unfortunately, none of this helps anymore. Because there is such a brazen fraud on the audience as it has not been seen in the cinema for a long time, a fraud that, in retrospect, shifts the film into an unpleasant perspective and discredits everything that has happened.
  • film-dienst 18/1991: A staged dense, intelligently entertaining crime film with solid acting performances. The conventional plot gains its charm from the refined references to the ambiguity of the images, which one has to meet with a lot of attention.

literature

  • Meinolf Zurhorst : Demi Moore. Lady and Vamp. Heyne-Filmbibliothek, Volume 248. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-11858-8 , pp. 133-137, 248-249
  • Annette Kilzer (editor), Bruce Willis , Dieter Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-929470-70-5 , pp. 163-166, 285-286

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