The dramatic events of the amazing movie that follows Allison Jones, who spreads some advertisements to find a new roommate instead of Sam, who just leaves. So, she thinks that Hedra is a good alternative to annoy from her later because she makes many strange things and tries to steal her identity. Allison plans with the help of Sam to get her out when she finds out that she has previous crimes.
If his two leads are adequate to the slick mechanisms of a formulaic thriller, neither they nor Don Roos' script (based on the novel by John Lutz) offer any original insights into insatiable emotional dependence.
A stylishly shot thriller with several hair-raising moments. Considering that it's directed by Barbet Schroeder and stars Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, it's also a major disappointment.
Turns out both of these women are mentally damaged, adding a nice little purple-nurple to the script, giving the actresses something with a little more bite to play with.
You watch this thing coolly intrigued and sometimes amused, rather than terrified and taken in -- even when the stabbing raises its bloody, predictable hand.
The film is smooth, entertaining and believably sophisticated. It has far more sound psychological underpinnings than other movies of its type.
Rolling Stone
May 12, 2001
Schroeder goes through the motions -- the movie is elegantly made -- but this synthetic Hollywood package panders shamelessly to the baser instincts.
ColeSmithey.com
October 16, 2007
Great suspense thriller.
KPBS.org
April 18, 2008
A waste of the talented Jennifer Jason Leigh and director Schroder
Chicago Reader
April 14, 2008
There's something dehumanizing about 90s horror thrillers that all but defeats the film's impulses toward seriousness; no matter how much the filmmakers work to make the characters real, the genre contrives to turn them into functions and props.
