Masquerade (1988)

Regisseur:

Bob Swaim

Drehbuchautoren:

Larry Brody (writer)
Dick Wolf (writer)

Premierendatum:

11. März 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Mystery | Romanze | Thriller

Werbezeile:

An heiress. A setup. A murder.

Plot:

A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain...

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Female Nudity | Beautiful Woman | Yachting | Assault

Filmpreise:

1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

One scene could have made this movie

Besetzung

Rob Lowe	...	Tim Whalen
Meg Tilly	...	Olivia Lawrence
Kim Cattrall	...	Brooke Morrison
Doug Savant	...	Mike McGill
John Glover	...	Tony Gateworth
Dana Delany	...	Anne Briscoe
Erik Holland	...	Chief of Police
Brian Davies	...	Granger Morrison
Barton Heyman	...	Tommy McGill
Bernie McInerney	...	Harland Fitzgerald
Bill Lopatto	...	Weyburn
Pirie MacDonald	...	Theodore Cantrell
Maeve McGuire	...	Aunt Eleanor
Ira Wheeler	...	Uncle Charles
Timothy Landfield	...	Sam

Alternativ:

Masquerade - Ein tödliches Spiel (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

Germany:91 Min | USA:91 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (DeLuxe)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:M | Iceland:14 | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Norway:15

Firma:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Dies und das:

About thirty minutes in the movie, there's a cut to a night scene on a beach. It's rumoured that there is a subliminal message (visible only in widescreen) written on the face of the wave in the lower right corner of the screen.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: After having had sex with Brooke Morrison, Tim Whalen has a sweat-wet back and in the next shot is dry.

One scene could have made this movie

This movie is essentially a mystery: who really wants the rich young heiress dead? However, there is *one* scene in this movie that, if done better, could have improved this entire movie. Rob Lowe plays the impoverished sailing instructor who makes the heiress (Meg Tilly) fall in love with him. He kills her step-father, who we already know is a total jerk. But at that one scene, if Lowe had done a more convincing job of letting the viewers know how his character felt, his character wouldn't have had such questionable motives, and the movie would have had less questions and a few more answers. As it is, we never do find out what he felt at that one decisive moment in time, and all the good and bad things he does throughout the film are also questionable. And the ending, might I say, while suspenseful is awfully tacky. All in all, it could have been a better movie, but its not a *bad* movie. And it's definitely possible to play MST3K with it. So go ahead, pick it up from your local video rental place and enjoy, however guiltily.