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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 434674" data-attributes="member: 23">Shadow Of Doubt (1998)

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Not to be mistaken for the similarly-named Hitchcock film, but I suppose this does have Hitchcockian themes running through it.I hadn&#039;t heard of this film, and chose it on the basis that the imagery looked rather akin to the kind of psychological thrillers I&#039;ve been enjoying of late. I enjoyed it, and I&#039;m even more impressed having seen that this was a straight-to-video Showtime kind of affair. To my mind, it&#039;s a pretty decent film by big screen standards, if not a great one. It&#039;s kind of like an extended episode of L.A. Law, with a bit of Columbo thrown in, albeit we still have to attempt to solve the murder mystery (I failed, despite having a couple of potential suspects).There are lots of familiar faces. The future Papi from Ugly Betty is a violent cop. The future Keith Scott from One Tree Hill is a crazed stalker and confessed rapist. Kenickie from Grease is on the stand, while John Ritter watches. Nina Foch was probably the best thing in it as a controlling matriarch (it&#039;s the kind of role where I can easily imagine Bette Davis or Angela Lansbury chewing up the scenery in the role). Wade Dominguez is unapologetically nasty as an Andrew Tate type misogynist whose hit rap single about slapping bitches round soars to the top of the charts after he is framed (or is he?) for murdering a woman with whom he&#039;s had some rough sex. This would be the last film his&nbsp; released before his untimely death later that same year. This is my second Tom Berenger film in the last six weeks, and once again there&#039;s a Lifestyles Of The Rich &amp; Famous aspect to the homes on display. I came away with some serious estate envy.And in this film she&#039;s playing a clever lawyer. It&#039;s weird, because she sometimes feels quite half-hearted in her performance, as though her mind is somewhere else. She speaks&nbsp; softly and quickly and in a kind of monotone that lacks any conviction in what she&#039;s saying. And yet somehow she pulls it off . She has some snappy lines (&quot;if you&#039;re asking me do drop the case&quot;, she tells the controlling powerful matriarch &quot;the answer is &#039;no&#039;. If you&#039;re telling me, the answer is &#039;hell, no&#039;&quot;) that inexplicably work.I suppose I&#039;d describe her as &quot;competent&quot;. She appears to have the skill of knowing her lines and not tripping over the furniture. And she has a photogenic thing going on that helps her work the screen. And it&#039;s just enough to not be too troubled by the lack of enthusiasm. And even enough to make me wonder if she might actually be better than I&#039;m giving her credit for. And two + years on, this has re-reminded me. One of these days...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 434674, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Shadow Of Doubt[/SIZE][/B] (1998) [IMG width="621px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BNTFlZTk0YWUtMmJmYi00Mzc3LTg5NmMtOTUxM2JlMGNmNjM3XkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=145d71dcd8da2e06d82a1b5e9884dafdf28587a99031b7874e012f7fbc3592b9[/IMG] [/CENTER] Not to be mistaken for the similarly-named Hitchcock film, but I suppose this does have Hitchcockian themes running through it. I hadn't heard of this film, and chose it on the basis that the imagery looked rather akin to the kind of psychological thrillers I've been enjoying of late. I enjoyed it, and I'm even more impressed having seen that this was a straight-to-video Showtime kind of affair. To my mind, it's a pretty decent film by big screen standards, if not a great one. It's kind of like an extended episode of [I]L.A. Law,[/I] with a bit of [I]Columbo[/I] thrown in, albeit we still have to attempt to solve the murder mystery (I failed, despite having a couple of potential suspects). There are lots of familiar faces. The future Papi from [I]Ugly Betty [/I]is a violent cop. The future Keith Scott from[I] One Tree Hill[/I] is a crazed stalker and confessed rapist. Kenickie from [I]Grease[/I] is on the stand, while John Ritter watches. Nina Foch was probably the best thing in it as a controlling matriarch (it's the kind of role where I can easily imagine Bette Davis or Angela Lansbury chewing up the scenery in the role). Wade Dominguez is unapologetically nasty as an Andrew Tate type misogynist whose hit rap single about slapping bitches round soars to the top of the charts after he is framed (or is he?) for murdering a woman with whom he's had some rough sex. This would be the last film his released before his untimely death later that same year. This is my second Tom Berenger film in the last six weeks, and once again there's a [I]Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous[/I] aspect to the homes on display. I came away with some serious estate envy. And in this film she's playing a clever lawyer. It's weird, because she sometimes feels quite half-hearted in her performance, as though her mind is somewhere else. She speaks softly and quickly and in a kind of monotone that lacks any conviction in what she's saying. And yet somehow she pulls it off . She has some snappy lines ("if you're asking me do drop the case", she tells the controlling powerful matriarch "the answer is 'no'. If you're [U]telling[/U] me, the answer is 'hell, no'") that inexplicably work. I suppose I'd describe her as "competent". She appears to have the skill of knowing her lines and not tripping over the furniture. And she has a photogenic thing going on that helps her work the screen. And it's just enough to not be too troubled by the lack of enthusiasm. And even enough to make me wonder if she might actually be better than I'm giving her credit for. And two + years on, this has re-reminded me. One of these days... [/QUOTE]

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