8/10
Actions have consequences, even online…..
This was based on the true story of Tanya Sullivan, and how she set up an acquaintance she met while searching an online dating service.
Anne Heche is very good as the lead, a selfish, bored and somewhat disturbed housewife in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eric Roberts becomes enraptured, he is a retired New Jersey cop who works as a pit boss in Atlantic City. His life has unraveled, and he sees Tanya as an answer to his depression.
While the locations and facts may have been altered to protect the guilty in this case, the story is intriguing in that we see the initial meeting, infatuation, and story-telling that often exists. Eric Roberts is a sympathetic character, in that he thinks he has found true love.
Overall a good story worth watching. 8/10.
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7/10
A man and his demons
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**SPOILER ALERT** Living alone with his twelve year son Teddy,James Edward Campbell, divorced ex-cop and now Atlantic City Casino pit-boss Joe, Eric Roberts, wants to start up a new relationship and does it by going on an internet dating website. It’s there that Joe gets in contact by E-Mail with the hot and sexy Tanya Sullivan,Anne Heche, whom he tells that he’s a big Atlantic City Casino honcho who in fact owns or is part owner of an expensive Atlantic City Casino called the Golden Treasure.
Before he knows it Tanya is sending Joe all kinds of sexy E-Mail photos of herself as well as a steamy video tape that has Joe all heated up to meet her and start up a wild hot and physical relationship with Tanya. Having been a cop Joe should have immediately picked up Tanya’s body languages when he told her a short time after they finally met in the flesh that he’s not the casino owner but just a poor working stiff who’s employed there. Finding that Joe isn’t the daddy big bucks that she expected him to be almost had Tanya blow it by walking out on the guy after spending an evening with him in a Golden Treasure hotel room. ***SPOILER***Regaining her composer Tanya instead decided to use the clueless, to what her intentions are, Joe to do in her hard working husband Mark, Mark A. Owens, who runs a junkyard in Pittsburgh Pa.
Making up this vicious cock & bull story about Mark being «in» with the mob Tanya gets Joe to believe that he’s an abusive husband and in fact will kill her if he ever found out that she’s having an affair with him. Trying to get Tanya to divorce Mark only has her get Joe deeper into her sinister plan in telling Joe that he would kill her if she ever as much as left him for another man. The final kicker is after Tanya told Joe that she’s pregnant with his child that within days he gets the bad news, via E-Mail of course, that Mark had his boys do a number on her beating and water-boarding, in the family swimming pool, Tanya! If that wasn’t enough to get Joe all steamed up Tanya told him that Mark also had his hoods not only rape her, in front of him, but also had her, and Joe’s, unborn child forcibly aborted! All this was shown to Joe with a number of E-Mail photos of Tanya’s face and body savagely bruised and battered!
It’s sad to say that Joe, having been a cop for years, let his emotions take over his common sense in not realizing that he’s being set up to do Tanya’s dirty work. It’s Joe’s blind love and affection for the scheming and manipulative Tanya that in the end not only literately destroyed his life but the lives of everyone including his son Teddy and fellow Golden Treasure worker casino card dealer Pula, Katheer York, who really cared for him.
The movie in fact does have an happy ending in that Tanya didn’t get away with what she did to both Joe and her husband Mark. Being so much in love with Tanya Joe kept all the E-Mail, which turned out to be evidence against her, that Tanya sent him. Tanya tried to put the by then broken and suicidally depressed Joe out of her life forever by wiping out all the memories, as well as E-Mails, that she had received through the internet from him. It was just too bad for her that Joe was still holding a torch for Tanya, despite how she treated him, and that torch in the end was what burned her.
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9/10
Fatal Desire-When SexyKitten meets Jersey Dude Online **** Results
Warning: Spoilers
Eric Roberts has matured but has never been better than an alcoholic ex-cop who gets involved online with an apparently unhappy woman who is married. Their above names are their online names.
They meet online and a raging affair ensues linking Pittsburgh, Pa. and Atlantic City, N.J.
Trouble is that a lot starts to evolve from the affair. Our «kitten» becomes pregnant and tells of her abusive husband who may be mob linked.
Enraged when she informs him that she loses the child, Roberts, who urged Heche to remain non-violent confronts the husband and shoots him to death. It’s at this point where the story really turns. Heche shows great acting in her change to a vicious, calculating woman who used Roberts to further her goal.
Will not give away the ending but will say-«Hell hath no fury like a man who is scorned.»
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5/10
Fatal Error
This made for TV thriller is based on a book entitled «Fatal Error,» which is almost what this film turned out to be. Toward the end, once the murder actually takes place, «Fatal Desire» picks up a little speed to a somewhat unexpected conclusion. The movie spends too much time on background, even attempting unsuccessfully to introduce a subplot involving Joe’s (Eric Roberts) son who is caught in the middle of his father’s chaotic lifestyle. Along these same lines, Tanya (Anne Heche), the troubled woman Joe meets via a chat room on the net, has a daughter, who once introduced nearly disappears from the story.
The plot, based on a true story, sounds exciting on the surface. A lonely divorced man, Joe, begins meeting women online, which spices up his life. A co-worker at the casino where he works continually hits on him, even informing him that she hasn’t had sex in twelve months. Joe views her as a good friend, someone to whom he can talk and confide his feelings. She warns him about the dangers of net dating. He becomes drawn to an online femme fatale, Tanya, who not only comes on to him but even sends him revealing photos through his e-mail. The couple ultimately meet and seem to be very compatible. One problem, Tanya is married. The two begin to spend time together when suddenly Tanya informs Joe that she is pregnant with his baby. Tanya claims that her husband is abusive. She e-mails Joe pictures of her bruises; then tells him that she has lost the baby as a result of the beatings and a gang rape that her husband engineered. This sends Joe over the edge with predictable results.
Anne Heche takes the acting accolades without any real competition. Her part even involves a salacious dance or two including vocals. She plays her role so well that she convinces the audience of her sincerity yet is also believable when her true colors start showing. Unfortunately, Eric Roberts, who looks aged and tired, seems to be walking through his portrayal of the complex character Joe. Could be that he has played this type person so often that he has become burnt out. The others in the cast are adequate, especially the actress playing Joe’s co-worker and confidant.
The last fifteen minutes are worthwhile, if you can stay awake through the first hour and a half. This is one of those shows that should have been much better, with such an intriguing premise. That chat rooms and net dating services rely on fantasy and wish fulfillment that often lead to unrealistic and even dangerous consequences is a subject that still needs to be explored more fully in a suspense film.
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8/10
Good Film With Eric Roberts
I watched this film because Eric Roberts stars in it. He is one of my fave actors. Although Eric is probably approaching 50, he still looks very handsome and sexy, and has obviously kept himself in shape — as evidenced by some shirtless scenes where he looks darn good.
Eric, who is sadly underrated as an actor, in my opinion, does a fine job in this romantic thriller.
Eric plays a character named Joe, a guy who works in a casino in Atlantic City. A newly divorced dad, he’s ripe for a new relationship and finds it with a gal named Tanya (Anne Heche), who calls herself sexykitten on-line. That’s right, they meet via the Internet.
Joe and Tanya (I noted the characters names evidently were changed since the list of the cast was first given to IMDb), quickly become enamored with one another and he is anxious to meet her in person.
She arrives in Atlantic City and fireworks happen. There are a few little problems for the lovers, however. Tanya confesses to Joe that she is married, and eventually tells Joe her husband, Mark, is physically abusive to her.
Joe has had a few problems himself along the way, and he is sympathetic to Tanya’s situation.
They stay in touch after she returns home to Pittsburgh.
Joe wants Tanya to leave her husband, but she is reluctant and fearful.
Things become more intense when threats, and violence occur, followed by some unexpected revelations.
The film was well-paced, entertaining, and held my interest throughout.
8 stars out of 10
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8/10
Based On A True Story
I caught this movie on the LMN TV channel.
Eventually I realized it is based on a true story. There’s also an episode of the TV show ‘Forensic Files’ about this case called ‘Web Of Seduction’.
In the real story these people met in the chat rooms on AOL which I used to go into quite often. However I didn’t hang out in the types of chat rooms they met in.
People have to be careful when meeting people anonymously on the internet and then getting involved with them.
It’s a good movie, especially by LMN standards, and is relevant for today’s world where people meet on the internet. It starts out quite romantically.
Jeff Marzano
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10/10
Looking for love in all the wrong places
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I saw this film last night when it premiered on the Lifetime network and was very impressed with it. It was absolutely superb from start to finish. It stars Eric Roberts and Anne Heche, two excellent actors who give a tour de force performance here. To say that their performances are outstanding would be an understatement. They played their respective characters with such realism and believability, I almost forgot that I was just watching a movie. Based on a true story, the film explores the perils and pitfalls of looking for romance on the Internet. In this, it shares a similarity with another film that Lifetime showed in 1993. That film was called «Dying To Love You» starring Tracy Pollan. Although that film used the personal ads medium as its hook instead of the Internet, the idea was basically the same- lonely divorced father meets beautiful woman with tragic results. In «Fatal Desire», Eric Roberts plays an ex-police detective from Rhode Island now working as a pit boss at an Atlantic City casino. He starts an e-mail relationship with Anne Heche, who plays a married woman named Tanya Sullivan living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her young daughter and a husband whom she says abuses her. When they finally meet in person, they’re very obviously smitten with one another and consummate their relationship right away. Heche’s character displays a certain edginess hinting at a possible mental instability. Nonetheless, Roberts falls in love with her and tries to convince her to divorce her husband so they can be married. She tells him that’s not an option and that her husband found out she was fooling around and beat her bloody. The photos she e-mails Roberts, showing her bruised and battered face, seem to bear out her story. To put the icing on the cake, she tells Roberts that her husband also hired two men to beat and rape her as well. Roberts tells her he’s going to take care of the problem and she gives him directions to the auto salvage yard where he works. After «taking care» of the problem, Roberts finds that Heche has cut off all communication with him- no e-mails, no phone calls, nothing. The police initially treat what happened as a burglary gone bad. The film takes a few neat twists and turns here when Roberts finally confronts her in person. Another twist involves payback from beyond the grave, though not in a supernatural sense. And the last is in the revealing of Tanya’s personality- and it isn’t pretty. What she does in the last scene, when being interrogated at police headquarters, is quite unnerving and will leave a chill running down your spine. This is a phenomenal production and I give it a 10 out of 10, hands down.
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10/10
Excellent film and pairing
The two leads here may not have the star power of Eric Roberts’ sister or, say, Harrison Ford — but I’d rather watch either of them than their more acclaimed counterparts. I’d spend two hours watching Anne Heche sitting, looking at a wall while the paint dried. She was perfect as the vampish sexpot here. Eric looked a little tired at times (some of it due to the characterization) and parts of his performance were a bit «wooden.» However, this can be excused. If my count is correct, according to his IMDb biography, he has been in 14 productions either released in 2006 or for release in 2007. This picture is interesting throughout, and does something even a lot of top-budget films don’t accomplish. The scenes and situations show a realism throughout, in terms of the sets, locations, and presentation — for example, the casino in Atlantic City, Roberts’ and Heche’s respective dwellings, and all the other sites. The supporting cast also all ring true. Although the A+ types such as Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan get the major big screen gigs — and while I enjoy their pairings, I’d just as soon (maybe prefer) seeing Heche and Roberts in one of that type of production.
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5/10
The second half is the better part so patience is required.
Some facts about Fatal Desire: It’s a tv-movie so sadly it isn’t of the highest quality. It’s based on a true story which makes it a bit more interesting to watch. It’s starring Eric Roberts, which in my opinion is not a guarantee for great acting, but in this case it wasn’t that bad, certainly not his worst movie. The chemistry between Anne Heche and Eric Roberts is a bit cheesy to watch in the beginning but you’re get used to it. The best part of the movie is the last part but you have to wait long for it so patience is the keyword here. In conclusion for a tv-movie it’s worth a watch but it’s just not great cinema.
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8/10
Damn good for a made-for-TV movie…
Tanya Sullivan (Anne Heche) meets over Internet a great gay, casino employee Joe Donnely (Eric Roberts), an ex cop -made to resign after testifying truthfully against the PD- and divorced father. After months of hot mail, Tanya flies a first time to Atlantic City and they start to having an affair……..
Eric Roberts does a decent job in this movie. In this movie he shows that he can act. still he is played away by Heche. No one can play an uneducated, low class, skanky and manipulative slut better than Anne Heche. Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction was kids-play compared by this performance of Heche.
The Movie is slow-paced in the beginning and the script is so-so…but Heche and Roberts make the movie with their acting. Two lesser actors would have reduced it to a hack piece of garbage.
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10/10
Surprisingly Good — Recommended
Some time back, I read a brief summary of this film in a TV program listing online. For some reason, it sounded better than it’s rather «soapish» title would suggest. I recorded it, then all but forgot about it…. until….
Until, in the midst of packing and preparing to move to another state, I got so tired and anxious about the work that I decided to watch some of those old recordings in the hopes that they would get my mind off things. «Fatal Desire» was last of the recorded shows. I couldn’t remember why I taped something with a title like that, and counted on it to be worth 15 minutes of watching and put me to sleep.
What a surprise! Within a few minutes minutes I was completely drawn into the story and watched intently. What made the movie so intriguing to me was that all-important aspect of movie-making — character development.
The viewer will know from the first scenes of the film that it will end in a tragedy for the character Joe. Then, a couple of minutes later, we’re sent back in time six months. There we meet Tanya, an captivating character who behaves recklessly at bars but seems entirely different at home with a daughter she obviously loves very much.
From there the story turns to her affair with Joe, started over the internet. The viewer can never be quite sure what’s going to happen. At times Tanya seems truly sincere. But the film crew has carefully crafted a lead character who just simply gave me «bad vibes.» It’s like in real life. There’s something disturbing about this woman …. but I couldn’t quite put your finger on it.
As things move along in the story, it doesn’t miss a beat. I spent the entire two hours (counting commercials) taking in every little hint of something wrong in the relationship. They both seem sincere… but the feeling never left that I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
No matter what the ending had been to this film (no spoiler here!), you have two complex very characters in an odd relationship that will keep you in real suspense.
It’s an amazing movie — well directed, wonderfully acted, realistic dialogue. I certainly never expected something this gripping!
Ten stars for «Fatal Desire.»
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8/10
Actually Pretty Good
Fatal Desire illustrates just how cunning a person can be in our walk of life. The reality came across very well in this movie. Internet meetings are very common these days. Relationships have been formed over the internet for years, so the plot is realistic. The ending didn’t surprise me, but it was interesting nonetheless. It was actually a pretty good movie. I actually chose to watch it to see the ending, rather than watch football this afternoon. Both Anne Heche and Eric Roberts did a whale of a job. I intend to watch it again, and recommend it highly. I’m quite sure you’ll enjoy it. If you liked fatal Attraction, you’ll like this one.
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10/10
10 stars because i like anne for years since in soaps….
i am seeing it now as i’ve been a HUGE anne heche fan for years we are the same age around,and i love her»real type of acting»in all of her roles!eric is somewhat handsome sexy charming good actor, love them two in this,have it on again tonight,since i’ve never seen the whole movie. i hear it is sad at the end,however also hear over the past few years that»she»deserve it,so i guess i will see tonight.we have it on now,and this time i am going to «finish watching the entire 2 hours!» if i do not doze off again first.as the old saying goes my IN Love parents say: treat those the way YOU en vida,(in life)wanna be treated if not it will COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU,sound like that is what is going to happen in the movie.
adios.
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7/10
Good TV Movie
Warning: Spoilers
Not a bad movie and it’s shocking that it is based on a true story.
Both Eric Roberts and Anne Heche do a good job of playing two troubled characters. Roberts character Joe is hooked on talking to a woman on-line and his obsession with her starts a chain of events that lead to him killing her husband.
He had no idea that he was being used by her and when he realizes this he takes his own life but not before making sure the evidence of her involvement is passed to the Police.
The whole story would seem far fetched were it not based on actual events.
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10/10
Excellent Reenactment of a TRUE Story!
This was an excellent story and it was executed very closely to the real life story that happened. I have followed this case when it happened. This crazy b**** got exactly what she deserved, it was so sad how she manipulated someone who was already weak and mentally ill to do her dirty work. He didn’t go down without a fight and what he left behind got Her life in prison!
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7/10
Story of a sociopath chick
Makes me think about Anne Heche’s true self. Given her sordid background and alleged sexual abuse from her pa the film seemed as if this is the true A. H. There’s a part in the film of disclosure that is rumored to have actually happened to her as a kid. Sad to think how troubled and emotionally messed up some people are in real life. Sure this was a film about someone else but seemed like this was about Anne. Go ahead and watch it. It’s very believable considering online dating is the norm. Besides the profound behind the scenes chit chat i’d say you’re peeking into Anne’s true unstable character.
Trashy psychopath.
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6/10
Surprisingly good…
Initially when I stumbled upon this 2006 movie titled «Fatal Desire» and I read the synopsis for the movie and saw who was in it, I must admit that my expectations weren’t really high. But still, it being a movie that I hadn’t seen before, was sufficient to make me sit down and watch it.
Turns out that this movie was actually rather enjoyable, and actually surprised me. In fact, I will actually say that it was an entertaining movie and while I am definitely no fan of Eric Roberts, I must admit that he was actually really good in his role in «Fatal Desire», as was Anne Heche.
Sure, the storyline is pretty simplistic and predictable, and generic for a movie of this particular genre and type. But that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. And the good acting performances definitely helped to lift up the overall movie. Personally, I must say that the whole online dating aspect that the movie had worked out very nicely.
My rating for «Fatal Desire» is a six out of ten stars, and I will actually go as far as saying that if you get the chance to watch this movie from director Ralph Hemecker then you should do so.
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10/10
divorced man meets psychotic lady on the personals on the internet
Eric Roberts was never better! Anne Heche played a very different kind of role for her. Highly recommend this movie as it displays the dangers of internet correspondence. It is available for downloads on ITunes However it cannot be burned to CDs. It will cost $3.99 to buy it but it is well worth it for you to own.
Check it out. The movie was actually filmed in Nova Scotia. For those of you who do not know, Eric Roberts is Julia Roberts brother. If you never saw Runnaway Train, Eric Roberts is terrific. He is also in a small role in the new Batman flick, «The Dark Knight.» If anyone knows of a website that this movie can be purchased, please advise.
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Fatal mistake
First of all this age old story of boy meets girl, boys falls in love with girl, girl tricks boy into dirty deeds, girl dumps boy, is done to death (no pun intended). Add to this trite, overdone and often boring movie for TV, the lack of talents from Eric Roberts and Anne Heche. Roberts looks haggard and shriveled. His acting matches his looks. I never considered this guy an actor. Just the brother of Julia making it on her name. In this it shows his ability to stretch his emotions from 1- 2. In It’s My Party, he costarred with Gregory Harrison. Harrison and a roster of guest stars made the movie a hit. Roberts was not the best in the film. And in this his co-star Heche (also known as Ellen’s ex) was just as bad. Not a looker, it was embarrassing to see her playing a sexy broad with a flat body, skinny legs and no bosom.
This movie is worse than a B picture and should be labeled one of the worst ever!
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7/10
DECENT TV MOVIE!
Warning: Spoilers
Read the true story on line; Many details are not accurate. If she wanted to get away with this murder, she should have kept seeing him for a few months; that was her Fatal Error! Thank God she was an idiot! And…. Jerry (REAL name) was a real gullible fool! Too bad how it turned out! He seemed like a decent person! I have to say, the character Roberts played was the biggest puss* ever, in cinema history!
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Фильм «Роковая ошибка» 2006 года – это настоящее произведение искусства, которое поразило меня своей глубиной и эмоциональной насыщенностью. с момента выхода прошло уже более 15 лет, он по-прежнему вызывает у меня море эмоций и мыслей.
Сюжет фильма основан на реальных событиях из жизни человека по имени Крис Гарднер. Он бросил все свои накопления в одном известном инвестиционном банке и стал заниматься продажами сканеров для рентгена. Ситуация еще усложняется тем, что он воспитывает своего маленького сына Кристофера в одиночку.
Главный герой преодолевает невероятные трудности, чтобы достичь успеха в своем деле. Его жизненная позиция не оставляет равнодушным – он верит в свою мечту и делает все возможное, чтобы ее осуществить.
Один из самых интересных фактов об этом фильме заключается в том, что Уилл Смит был так заинтересован в роли Криса Гарднера, что он уговаривал режиссера взять его на эту роль.
Он даже проходил тренировки с самим Крисом Гарднером, чтобы понимать лучше его характер и манеру поведения.
фильм является прекрасным образцом того, какая может быть связь между отцом и сыном. Всю жизнь Крис стремится обеспечить лучшее будущее для своего сына и не сдаётся перед невзгодами. Это также прекрасный пример того, как один человек может изменить свою жизнь благодаря своей вере в себя.
«Роковая ошибка» – это фильм о настоящей любви к жизни и о том, что нет ничего невозможного для человека, который готов бороться за свою мечту. Я очень рекомендую этот фильм всем любителям качественного кино!
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8/10
Actions have consequences, even online…..
This was based on the true story of Tanya Sullivan, and how she set up an acquaintance she met while searching an online dating service.
Anne Heche is very good as the lead, a selfish, bored and somewhat disturbed housewife in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eric Roberts becomes enraptured, he is a retired New Jersey cop who works as a pit boss in Atlantic City. His life has unraveled, and he sees Tanya as an answer to his depression.
While the locations and facts may have been altered to protect the guilty in this case, the story is intriguing in that we see the initial meeting, infatuation, and story-telling that often exists. Eric Roberts is a sympathetic character, in that he thinks he has found true love.
Overall a good story worth watching. 8/10.
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7/10
A man and his demons
Warning: Spoilers
**SPOILER ALERT** Living alone with his twelve year son Teddy,James Edward Campbell, divorced ex-cop and now Atlantic City Casino pit-boss Joe, Eric Roberts, wants to start up a new relationship and does it by going on an internet dating website. It’s there that Joe gets in contact by E-Mail with the hot and sexy Tanya Sullivan,Anne Heche, whom he tells that he’s a big Atlantic City Casino honcho who in fact owns or is part owner of an expensive Atlantic City Casino called the Golden Treasure.
Before he knows it Tanya is sending Joe all kinds of sexy E-Mail photos of herself as well as a steamy video tape that has Joe all heated up to meet her and start up a wild hot and physical relationship with Tanya. Having been a cop Joe should have immediately picked up Tanya’s body languages when he told her a short time after they finally met in the flesh that he’s not the casino owner but just a poor working stiff who’s employed there. Finding that Joe isn’t the daddy big bucks that she expected him to be almost had Tanya blow it by walking out on the guy after spending an evening with him in a Golden Treasure hotel room. ***SPOILER***Regaining her composer Tanya instead decided to use the clueless, to what her intentions are, Joe to do in her hard working husband Mark, Mark A. Owens, who runs a junkyard in Pittsburgh Pa.
Making up this vicious cock & bull story about Mark being «in» with the mob Tanya gets Joe to believe that he’s an abusive husband and in fact will kill her if he ever found out that she’s having an affair with him. Trying to get Tanya to divorce Mark only has her get Joe deeper into her sinister plan in telling Joe that he would kill her if she ever as much as left him for another man. The final kicker is after Tanya told Joe that she’s pregnant with his child that within days he gets the bad news, via E-Mail of course, that Mark had his boys do a number on her beating and water-boarding, in the family swimming pool, Tanya! If that wasn’t enough to get Joe all steamed up Tanya told him that Mark also had his hoods not only rape her, in front of him, but also had her, and Joe’s, unborn child forcibly aborted! All this was shown to Joe with a number of E-Mail photos of Tanya’s face and body savagely bruised and battered!
It’s sad to say that Joe, having been a cop for years, let his emotions take over his common sense in not realizing that he’s being set up to do Tanya’s dirty work. It’s Joe’s blind love and affection for the scheming and manipulative Tanya that in the end not only literately destroyed his life but the lives of everyone including his son Teddy and fellow Golden Treasure worker casino card dealer Pula, Katheer York, who really cared for him.
The movie in fact does have an happy ending in that Tanya didn’t get away with what she did to both Joe and her husband Mark. Being so much in love with Tanya Joe kept all the E-Mail, which turned out to be evidence against her, that Tanya sent him. Tanya tried to put the by then broken and suicidally depressed Joe out of her life forever by wiping out all the memories, as well as E-Mails, that she had received through the internet from him. It was just too bad for her that Joe was still holding a torch for Tanya, despite how she treated him, and that torch in the end was what burned her.
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9/10
Fatal Desire-When SexyKitten meets Jersey Dude Online **** Results
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Eric Roberts has matured but has never been better than an alcoholic ex-cop who gets involved online with an apparently unhappy woman who is married. Their above names are their online names.
They meet online and a raging affair ensues linking Pittsburgh, Pa. and Atlantic City, N.J.
Trouble is that a lot starts to evolve from the affair. Our «kitten» becomes pregnant and tells of her abusive husband who may be mob linked.
Enraged when she informs him that she loses the child, Roberts, who urged Heche to remain non-violent confronts the husband and shoots him to death. It’s at this point where the story really turns. Heche shows great acting in her change to a vicious, calculating woman who used Roberts to further her goal.
Will not give away the ending but will say-«Hell hath no fury like a man who is scorned.»
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5/10
Fatal Error
This made for TV thriller is based on a book entitled «Fatal Error,» which is almost what this film turned out to be. Toward the end, once the murder actually takes place, «Fatal Desire» picks up a little speed to a somewhat unexpected conclusion. The movie spends too much time on background, even attempting unsuccessfully to introduce a subplot involving Joe’s (Eric Roberts) son who is caught in the middle of his father’s chaotic lifestyle. Along these same lines, Tanya (Anne Heche), the troubled woman Joe meets via a chat room on the net, has a daughter, who once introduced nearly disappears from the story.
The plot, based on a true story, sounds exciting on the surface. A lonely divorced man, Joe, begins meeting women online, which spices up his life. A co-worker at the casino where he works continually hits on him, even informing him that she hasn’t had sex in twelve months. Joe views her as a good friend, someone to whom he can talk and confide his feelings. She warns him about the dangers of net dating. He becomes drawn to an online femme fatale, Tanya, who not only comes on to him but even sends him revealing photos through his e-mail. The couple ultimately meet and seem to be very compatible. One problem, Tanya is married. The two begin to spend time together when suddenly Tanya informs Joe that she is pregnant with his baby. Tanya claims that her husband is abusive. She e-mails Joe pictures of her bruises; then tells him that she has lost the baby as a result of the beatings and a gang rape that her husband engineered. This sends Joe over the edge with predictable results.
Anne Heche takes the acting accolades without any real competition. Her part even involves a salacious dance or two including vocals. She plays her role so well that she convinces the audience of her sincerity yet is also believable when her true colors start showing. Unfortunately, Eric Roberts, who looks aged and tired, seems to be walking through his portrayal of the complex character Joe. Could be that he has played this type person so often that he has become burnt out. The others in the cast are adequate, especially the actress playing Joe’s co-worker and confidant.
The last fifteen minutes are worthwhile, if you can stay awake through the first hour and a half. This is one of those shows that should have been much better, with such an intriguing premise. That chat rooms and net dating services rely on fantasy and wish fulfillment that often lead to unrealistic and even dangerous consequences is a subject that still needs to be explored more fully in a suspense film.
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8/10
Good Film With Eric Roberts
I watched this film because Eric Roberts stars in it. He is one of my fave actors. Although Eric is probably approaching 50, he still looks very handsome and sexy, and has obviously kept himself in shape — as evidenced by some shirtless scenes where he looks darn good.
Eric, who is sadly underrated as an actor, in my opinion, does a fine job in this romantic thriller.
Eric plays a character named Joe, a guy who works in a casino in Atlantic City. A newly divorced dad, he’s ripe for a new relationship and finds it with a gal named Tanya (Anne Heche), who calls herself sexykitten on-line. That’s right, they meet via the Internet.
Joe and Tanya (I noted the characters names evidently were changed since the list of the cast was first given to IMDb), quickly become enamored with one another and he is anxious to meet her in person.
She arrives in Atlantic City and fireworks happen. There are a few little problems for the lovers, however. Tanya confesses to Joe that she is married, and eventually tells Joe her husband, Mark, is physically abusive to her.
Joe has had a few problems himself along the way, and he is sympathetic to Tanya’s situation.
They stay in touch after she returns home to Pittsburgh.
Joe wants Tanya to leave her husband, but she is reluctant and fearful.
Things become more intense when threats, and violence occur, followed by some unexpected revelations.
The film was well-paced, entertaining, and held my interest throughout.
8 stars out of 10
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8/10
Based On A True Story
I caught this movie on the LMN TV channel.
Eventually I realized it is based on a true story. There’s also an episode of the TV show ‘Forensic Files’ about this case called ‘Web Of Seduction’.
In the real story these people met in the chat rooms on AOL which I used to go into quite often. However I didn’t hang out in the types of chat rooms they met in.
People have to be careful when meeting people anonymously on the internet and then getting involved with them.
It’s a good movie, especially by LMN standards, and is relevant for today’s world where people meet on the internet. It starts out quite romantically.
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10/10
Looking for love in all the wrong places
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I saw this film last night when it premiered on the Lifetime network and was very impressed with it. It was absolutely superb from start to finish. It stars Eric Roberts and Anne Heche, two excellent actors who give a tour de force performance here. To say that their performances are outstanding would be an understatement. They played their respective characters with such realism and believability, I almost forgot that I was just watching a movie. Based on a true story, the film explores the perils and pitfalls of looking for romance on the Internet. In this, it shares a similarity with another film that Lifetime showed in 1993. That film was called «Dying To Love You» starring Tracy Pollan. Although that film used the personal ads medium as its hook instead of the Internet, the idea was basically the same- lonely divorced father meets beautiful woman with tragic results. In «Fatal Desire», Eric Roberts plays an ex-police detective from Rhode Island now working as a pit boss at an Atlantic City casino. He starts an e-mail relationship with Anne Heche, who plays a married woman named Tanya Sullivan living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her young daughter and a husband whom she says abuses her. When they finally meet in person, they’re very obviously smitten with one another and consummate their relationship right away. Heche’s character displays a certain edginess hinting at a possible mental instability. Nonetheless, Roberts falls in love with her and tries to convince her to divorce her husband so they can be married. She tells him that’s not an option and that her husband found out she was fooling around and beat her bloody. The photos she e-mails Roberts, showing her bruised and battered face, seem to bear out her story. To put the icing on the cake, she tells Roberts that her husband also hired two men to beat and rape her as well. Roberts tells her he’s going to take care of the problem and she gives him directions to the auto salvage yard where he works. After «taking care» of the problem, Roberts finds that Heche has cut off all communication with him- no e-mails, no phone calls, nothing. The police initially treat what happened as a burglary gone bad. The film takes a few neat twists and turns here when Roberts finally confronts her in person. Another twist involves payback from beyond the grave, though not in a supernatural sense. And the last is in the revealing of Tanya’s personality- and it isn’t pretty. What she does in the last scene, when being interrogated at police headquarters, is quite unnerving and will leave a chill running down your spine. This is a phenomenal production and I give it a 10 out of 10, hands down.
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10/10
Excellent film and pairing
The two leads here may not have the star power of Eric Roberts’ sister or, say, Harrison Ford — but I’d rather watch either of them than their more acclaimed counterparts. I’d spend two hours watching Anne Heche sitting, looking at a wall while the paint dried. She was perfect as the vampish sexpot here. Eric looked a little tired at times (some of it due to the characterization) and parts of his performance were a bit «wooden.» However, this can be excused. If my count is correct, according to his IMDb biography, he has been in 14 productions either released in 2006 or for release in 2007. This picture is interesting throughout, and does something even a lot of top-budget films don’t accomplish. The scenes and situations show a realism throughout, in terms of the sets, locations, and presentation — for example, the casino in Atlantic City, Roberts’ and Heche’s respective dwellings, and all the other sites. The supporting cast also all ring true. Although the A+ types such as Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan get the major big screen gigs — and while I enjoy their pairings, I’d just as soon (maybe prefer) seeing Heche and Roberts in one of that type of production.
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5/10
The second half is the better part so patience is required.
Some facts about Fatal Desire: It’s a tv-movie so sadly it isn’t of the highest quality. It’s based on a true story which makes it a bit more interesting to watch. It’s starring Eric Roberts, which in my opinion is not a guarantee for great acting, but in this case it wasn’t that bad, certainly not his worst movie. The chemistry between Anne Heche and Eric Roberts is a bit cheesy to watch in the beginning but you’re get used to it. The best part of the movie is the last part but you have to wait long for it so patience is the keyword here. In conclusion for a tv-movie it’s worth a watch but it’s just not great cinema.
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10/10
Surprisingly Good — Recommended
Some time back, I read a brief summary of this film in a TV program listing online. For some reason, it sounded better than it’s rather «soapish» title would suggest. I recorded it, then all but forgot about it…. until….
Until, in the midst of packing and preparing to move to another state, I got so tired and anxious about the work that I decided to watch some of those old recordings in the hopes that they would get my mind off things. «Fatal Desire» was last of the recorded shows. I couldn’t remember why I taped something with a title like that, and counted on it to be worth 15 minutes of watching and put me to sleep.
What a surprise! Within a few minutes minutes I was completely drawn into the story and watched intently. What made the movie so intriguing to me was that all-important aspect of movie-making — character development.
The viewer will know from the first scenes of the film that it will end in a tragedy for the character Joe. Then, a couple of minutes later, we’re sent back in time six months. There we meet Tanya, an captivating character who behaves recklessly at bars but seems entirely different at home with a daughter she obviously loves very much.
From there the story turns to her affair with Joe, started over the internet. The viewer can never be quite sure what’s going to happen. At times Tanya seems truly sincere. But the film crew has carefully crafted a lead character who just simply gave me «bad vibes.» It’s like in real life. There’s something disturbing about this woman …. but I couldn’t quite put your finger on it.
As things move along in the story, it doesn’t miss a beat. I spent the entire two hours (counting commercials) taking in every little hint of something wrong in the relationship. They both seem sincere… but the feeling never left that I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
No matter what the ending had been to this film (no spoiler here!), you have two complex very characters in an odd relationship that will keep you in real suspense.
It’s an amazing movie — well directed, wonderfully acted, realistic dialogue. I certainly never expected something this gripping!
Ten stars for «Fatal Desire.»
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8/10
Actually Pretty Good
Fatal Desire illustrates just how cunning a person can be in our walk of life. The reality came across very well in this movie. Internet meetings are very common these days. Relationships have been formed over the internet for years, so the plot is realistic. The ending didn’t surprise me, but it was interesting nonetheless. It was actually a pretty good movie. I actually chose to watch it to see the ending, rather than watch football this afternoon. Both Anne Heche and Eric Roberts did a whale of a job. I intend to watch it again, and recommend it highly. I’m quite sure you’ll enjoy it. If you liked fatal Attraction, you’ll like this one.
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8/10
Damn good for a made-for-TV movie…
Tanya Sullivan (Anne Heche) meets over Internet a great gay, casino employee Joe Donnely (Eric Roberts), an ex cop -made to resign after testifying truthfully against the PD- and divorced father. After months of hot mail, Tanya flies a first time to Atlantic City and they start to having an affair……..
Eric Roberts does a decent job in this movie. In this movie he shows that he can act. still he is played away by Heche. No one can play an uneducated, low class, skanky and manipulative slut better than Anne Heche. Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction was kids-play compared by this performance of Heche.
The Movie is slow-paced in the beginning and the script is so-so…but Heche and Roberts make the movie with their acting. Two lesser actors would have reduced it to a hack piece of garbage.
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10/10
10 stars because i like anne for years since in soaps….
i am seeing it now as i’ve been a HUGE anne heche fan for years we are the same age around,and i love her»real type of acting»in all of her roles!eric is somewhat handsome sexy charming good actor, love them two in this,have it on again tonight,since i’ve never seen the whole movie. i hear it is sad at the end,however also hear over the past few years that»she»deserve it,so i guess i will see tonight.we have it on now,and this time i am going to «finish watching the entire 2 hours!» if i do not doze off again first.as the old saying goes my IN Love parents say: treat those the way YOU en vida,(in life)wanna be treated if not it will COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU,sound like that is what is going to happen in the movie.
adios.
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7/10
Good TV Movie
Warning: Spoilers
Not a bad movie and it’s shocking that it is based on a true story.
Both Eric Roberts and Anne Heche do a good job of playing two troubled characters. Roberts character Joe is hooked on talking to a woman on-line and his obsession with her starts a chain of events that lead to him killing her husband.
He had no idea that he was being used by her and when he realizes this he takes his own life but not before making sure the evidence of her involvement is passed to the Police.
The whole story would seem far fetched were it not based on actual events.
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6/10
Surprisingly good…
Initially when I stumbled upon this 2006 movie titled «Fatal Desire» and I read the synopsis for the movie and saw who was in it, I must admit that my expectations weren’t really high. But still, it being a movie that I hadn’t seen before, was sufficient to make me sit down and watch it.
Turns out that this movie was actually rather enjoyable, and actually surprised me. In fact, I will actually say that it was an entertaining movie and while I am definitely no fan of Eric Roberts, I must admit that he was actually really good in his role in «Fatal Desire», as was Anne Heche.
Sure, the storyline is pretty simplistic and predictable, and generic for a movie of this particular genre and type. But that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. And the good acting performances definitely helped to lift up the overall movie. Personally, I must say that the whole online dating aspect that the movie had worked out very nicely.
My rating for «Fatal Desire» is a six out of ten stars, and I will actually go as far as saying that if you get the chance to watch this movie from director Ralph Hemecker then you should do so.
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10/10
divorced man meets psychotic lady on the personals on the internet
Eric Roberts was never better! Anne Heche played a very different kind of role for her. Highly recommend this movie as it displays the dangers of internet correspondence. It is available for downloads on ITunes However it cannot be burned to CDs. It will cost $3.99 to buy it but it is well worth it for you to own.
Check it out. The movie was actually filmed in Nova Scotia. For those of you who do not know, Eric Roberts is Julia Roberts brother. If you never saw Runnaway Train, Eric Roberts is terrific. He is also in a small role in the new Batman flick, «The Dark Knight.» If anyone knows of a website that this movie can be purchased, please advise.
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Fatal mistake
First of all this age old story of boy meets girl, boys falls in love with girl, girl tricks boy into dirty deeds, girl dumps boy, is done to death (no pun intended). Add to this trite, overdone and often boring movie for TV, the lack of talents from Eric Roberts and Anne Heche. Roberts looks haggard and shriveled. His acting matches his looks. I never considered this guy an actor. Just the brother of Julia making it on her name. In this it shows his ability to stretch his emotions from 1- 2. In It’s My Party, he costarred with Gregory Harrison. Harrison and a roster of guest stars made the movie a hit. Roberts was not the best in the film. And in this his co-star Heche (also known as Ellen’s ex) was just as bad. Not a looker, it was embarrassing to see her playing a sexy broad with a flat body, skinny legs and no bosom.
This movie is worse than a B picture and should be labeled one of the worst ever!
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10/10
Excellent Reenactment of a TRUE Story!
This was an excellent story and it was executed very closely to the real life story that happened. I have followed this case when it happened. This crazy b**** got exactly what she deserved, it was so sad how she manipulated someone who was already weak and mentally ill to do her dirty work. He didn’t go down without a fight and what he left behind got Her life in prison!
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7/10
DECENT TV MOVIE!
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Read the true story on line; Many details are not accurate. If she wanted to get away with this murder, she should have kept seeing him for a few months; that was her Fatal Error! Thank God she was an idiot! And…. Jerry (REAL name) was a real gullible fool! Too bad how it turned out! He seemed like a decent person! I have to say, the character Roberts played was the biggest puss* ever, in cinema history!
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7/10
Story of a sociopath chick
Makes me think about Anne Heche’s true self. Given her sordid background and alleged sexual abuse from her pa the film seemed as if this is the true A. H. There’s a part in the film of disclosure that is rumored to have actually happened to her as a kid. Sad to think how troubled and emotionally messed up some people are in real life. Sure this was a film about someone else but seemed like this was about Anne. Go ahead and watch it. It’s very believable considering online dating is the norm. Besides the profound behind the scenes chit chat i’d say you’re peeking into Anne’s true unstable character.
Trashy psychopath.
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8/10
Actions have consequences, even online…..
This was based on the true story of Tanya Sullivan, and how she set up an acquaintance she met while searching an online dating service.
Anne Heche is very good as the lead, a selfish, bored and somewhat disturbed housewife in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eric Roberts becomes enraptured, he is a retired New Jersey cop who works as a pit boss in Atlantic City. His life has unraveled, and he sees Tanya as an answer to his depression.
While the locations and facts may have been altered to protect the guilty in this case, the story is intriguing in that we see the initial meeting, infatuation, and story-telling that often exists. Eric Roberts is a sympathetic character, in that he thinks he has found true love.
Overall a good story worth watching. 8/10.
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7/10
A man and his demons
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**SPOILER ALERT** Living alone with his twelve year son Teddy,James Edward Campbell, divorced ex-cop and now Atlantic City Casino pit-boss Joe, Eric Roberts, wants to start up a new relationship and does it by going on an internet dating website. It’s there that Joe gets in contact by E-Mail with the hot and sexy Tanya Sullivan,Anne Heche, whom he tells that he’s a big Atlantic City Casino honcho who in fact owns or is part owner of an expensive Atlantic City Casino called the Golden Treasure.
Before he knows it Tanya is sending Joe all kinds of sexy E-Mail photos of herself as well as a steamy video tape that has Joe all heated up to meet her and start up a wild hot and physical relationship with Tanya. Having been a cop Joe should have immediately picked up Tanya’s body languages when he told her a short time after they finally met in the flesh that he’s not the casino owner but just a poor working stiff who’s employed there. Finding that Joe isn’t the daddy big bucks that she expected him to be almost had Tanya blow it by walking out on the guy after spending an evening with him in a Golden Treasure hotel room. ***SPOILER***Regaining her composer Tanya instead decided to use the clueless, to what her intentions are, Joe to do in her hard working husband Mark, Mark A. Owens, who runs a junkyard in Pittsburgh Pa.
Making up this vicious cock & bull story about Mark being «in» with the mob Tanya gets Joe to believe that he’s an abusive husband and in fact will kill her if he ever found out that she’s having an affair with him. Trying to get Tanya to divorce Mark only has her get Joe deeper into her sinister plan in telling Joe that he would kill her if she ever as much as left him for another man. The final kicker is after Tanya told Joe that she’s pregnant with his child that within days he gets the bad news, via E-Mail of course, that Mark had his boys do a number on her beating and water-boarding, in the family swimming pool, Tanya! If that wasn’t enough to get Joe all steamed up Tanya told him that Mark also had his hoods not only rape her, in front of him, but also had her, and Joe’s, unborn child forcibly aborted! All this was shown to Joe with a number of E-Mail photos of Tanya’s face and body savagely bruised and battered!
It’s sad to say that Joe, having been a cop for years, let his emotions take over his common sense in not realizing that he’s being set up to do Tanya’s dirty work. It’s Joe’s blind love and affection for the scheming and manipulative Tanya that in the end not only literately destroyed his life but the lives of everyone including his son Teddy and fellow Golden Treasure worker casino card dealer Pula, Katheer York, who really cared for him.
The movie in fact does have an happy ending in that Tanya didn’t get away with what she did to both Joe and her husband Mark. Being so much in love with Tanya Joe kept all the E-Mail, which turned out to be evidence against her, that Tanya sent him. Tanya tried to put the by then broken and suicidally depressed Joe out of her life forever by wiping out all the memories, as well as E-Mails, that she had received through the internet from him. It was just too bad for her that Joe was still holding a torch for Tanya, despite how she treated him, and that torch in the end was what burned her.
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9/10
Fatal Desire-When SexyKitten meets Jersey Dude Online **** Results
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Eric Roberts has matured but has never been better than an alcoholic ex-cop who gets involved online with an apparently unhappy woman who is married. Their above names are their online names.
They meet online and a raging affair ensues linking Pittsburgh, Pa. and Atlantic City, N.J.
Trouble is that a lot starts to evolve from the affair. Our «kitten» becomes pregnant and tells of her abusive husband who may be mob linked.
Enraged when she informs him that she loses the child, Roberts, who urged Heche to remain non-violent confronts the husband and shoots him to death. It’s at this point where the story really turns. Heche shows great acting in her change to a vicious, calculating woman who used Roberts to further her goal.
Will not give away the ending but will say-«Hell hath no fury like a man who is scorned.»
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5/10
Fatal Error
This made for TV thriller is based on a book entitled «Fatal Error,» which is almost what this film turned out to be. Toward the end, once the murder actually takes place, «Fatal Desire» picks up a little speed to a somewhat unexpected conclusion. The movie spends too much time on background, even attempting unsuccessfully to introduce a subplot involving Joe’s (Eric Roberts) son who is caught in the middle of his father’s chaotic lifestyle. Along these same lines, Tanya (Anne Heche), the troubled woman Joe meets via a chat room on the net, has a daughter, who once introduced nearly disappears from the story.
The plot, based on a true story, sounds exciting on the surface. A lonely divorced man, Joe, begins meeting women online, which spices up his life. A co-worker at the casino where he works continually hits on him, even informing him that she hasn’t had sex in twelve months. Joe views her as a good friend, someone to whom he can talk and confide his feelings. She warns him about the dangers of net dating. He becomes drawn to an online femme fatale, Tanya, who not only comes on to him but even sends him revealing photos through his e-mail. The couple ultimately meet and seem to be very compatible. One problem, Tanya is married. The two begin to spend time together when suddenly Tanya informs Joe that she is pregnant with his baby. Tanya claims that her husband is abusive. She e-mails Joe pictures of her bruises; then tells him that she has lost the baby as a result of the beatings and a gang rape that her husband engineered. This sends Joe over the edge with predictable results.
Anne Heche takes the acting accolades without any real competition. Her part even involves a salacious dance or two including vocals. She plays her role so well that she convinces the audience of her sincerity yet is also believable when her true colors start showing. Unfortunately, Eric Roberts, who looks aged and tired, seems to be walking through his portrayal of the complex character Joe. Could be that he has played this type person so often that he has become burnt out. The others in the cast are adequate, especially the actress playing Joe’s co-worker and confidant.
The last fifteen minutes are worthwhile, if you can stay awake through the first hour and a half. This is one of those shows that should have been much better, with such an intriguing premise. That chat rooms and net dating services rely on fantasy and wish fulfillment that often lead to unrealistic and even dangerous consequences is a subject that still needs to be explored more fully in a suspense film.
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8/10
Good Film With Eric Roberts
I watched this film because Eric Roberts stars in it. He is one of my fave actors. Although Eric is probably approaching 50, he still looks very handsome and sexy, and has obviously kept himself in shape — as evidenced by some shirtless scenes where he looks darn good.
Eric, who is sadly underrated as an actor, in my opinion, does a fine job in this romantic thriller.
Eric plays a character named Joe, a guy who works in a casino in Atlantic City. A newly divorced dad, he’s ripe for a new relationship and finds it with a gal named Tanya (Anne Heche), who calls herself sexykitten on-line. That’s right, they meet via the Internet.
Joe and Tanya (I noted the characters names evidently were changed since the list of the cast was first given to IMDb), quickly become enamored with one another and he is anxious to meet her in person.
She arrives in Atlantic City and fireworks happen. There are a few little problems for the lovers, however. Tanya confesses to Joe that she is married, and eventually tells Joe her husband, Mark, is physically abusive to her.
Joe has had a few problems himself along the way, and he is sympathetic to Tanya’s situation.
They stay in touch after she returns home to Pittsburgh.
Joe wants Tanya to leave her husband, but she is reluctant and fearful.
Things become more intense when threats, and violence occur, followed by some unexpected revelations.
The film was well-paced, entertaining, and held my interest throughout.
8 stars out of 10
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8/10
Based On A True Story
I caught this movie on the LMN TV channel.
Eventually I realized it is based on a true story. There’s also an episode of the TV show ‘Forensic Files’ about this case called ‘Web Of Seduction’.
In the real story these people met in the chat rooms on AOL which I used to go into quite often. However I didn’t hang out in the types of chat rooms they met in.
People have to be careful when meeting people anonymously on the internet and then getting involved with them.
It’s a good movie, especially by LMN standards, and is relevant for today’s world where people meet on the internet. It starts out quite romantically.
Jeff Marzano
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10/10
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Warning: Spoilers
I saw this film last night when it premiered on the Lifetime network and was very impressed with it. It was absolutely superb from start to finish. It stars Eric Roberts and Anne Heche, two excellent actors who give a tour de force performance here. To say that their performances are outstanding would be an understatement. They played their respective characters with such realism and believability, I almost forgot that I was just watching a movie. Based on a true story, the film explores the perils and pitfalls of looking for romance on the Internet. In this, it shares a similarity with another film that Lifetime showed in 1993. That film was called «Dying To Love You» starring Tracy Pollan. Although that film used the personal ads medium as its hook instead of the Internet, the idea was basically the same- lonely divorced father meets beautiful woman with tragic results. In «Fatal Desire», Eric Roberts plays an ex-police detective from Rhode Island now working as a pit boss at an Atlantic City casino. He starts an e-mail relationship with Anne Heche, who plays a married woman named Tanya Sullivan living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her young daughter and a husband whom she says abuses her. When they finally meet in person, they’re very obviously smitten with one another and consummate their relationship right away. Heche’s character displays a certain edginess hinting at a possible mental instability. Nonetheless, Roberts falls in love with her and tries to convince her to divorce her husband so they can be married. She tells him that’s not an option and that her husband found out she was fooling around and beat her bloody. The photos she e-mails Roberts, showing her bruised and battered face, seem to bear out her story. To put the icing on the cake, she tells Roberts that her husband also hired two men to beat and rape her as well. Roberts tells her he’s going to take care of the problem and she gives him directions to the auto salvage yard where he works. After «taking care» of the problem, Roberts finds that Heche has cut off all communication with him- no e-mails, no phone calls, nothing. The police initially treat what happened as a burglary gone bad. The film takes a few neat twists and turns here when Roberts finally confronts her in person. Another twist involves payback from beyond the grave, though not in a supernatural sense. And the last is in the revealing of Tanya’s personality- and it isn’t pretty. What she does in the last scene, when being interrogated at police headquarters, is quite unnerving and will leave a chill running down your spine. This is a phenomenal production and I give it a 10 out of 10, hands down.
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10/10
Excellent film and pairing
The two leads here may not have the star power of Eric Roberts’ sister or, say, Harrison Ford — but I’d rather watch either of them than their more acclaimed counterparts. I’d spend two hours watching Anne Heche sitting, looking at a wall while the paint dried. She was perfect as the vampish sexpot here. Eric looked a little tired at times (some of it due to the characterization) and parts of his performance were a bit «wooden.» However, this can be excused. If my count is correct, according to his IMDb biography, he has been in 14 productions either released in 2006 or for release in 2007. This picture is interesting throughout, and does something even a lot of top-budget films don’t accomplish. The scenes and situations show a realism throughout, in terms of the sets, locations, and presentation — for example, the casino in Atlantic City, Roberts’ and Heche’s respective dwellings, and all the other sites. The supporting cast also all ring true. Although the A+ types such as Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan get the major big screen gigs — and while I enjoy their pairings, I’d just as soon (maybe prefer) seeing Heche and Roberts in one of that type of production.
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5/10
The second half is the better part so patience is required.
Some facts about Fatal Desire: It’s a tv-movie so sadly it isn’t of the highest quality. It’s based on a true story which makes it a bit more interesting to watch. It’s starring Eric Roberts, which in my opinion is not a guarantee for great acting, but in this case it wasn’t that bad, certainly not his worst movie. The chemistry between Anne Heche and Eric Roberts is a bit cheesy to watch in the beginning but you’re get used to it. The best part of the movie is the last part but you have to wait long for it so patience is the keyword here. In conclusion for a tv-movie it’s worth a watch but it’s just not great cinema.
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10/10
Surprisingly Good — Recommended
Some time back, I read a brief summary of this film in a TV program listing online. For some reason, it sounded better than it’s rather «soapish» title would suggest. I recorded it, then all but forgot about it…. until….
Until, in the midst of packing and preparing to move to another state, I got so tired and anxious about the work that I decided to watch some of those old recordings in the hopes that they would get my mind off things. «Fatal Desire» was last of the recorded shows. I couldn’t remember why I taped something with a title like that, and counted on it to be worth 15 minutes of watching and put me to sleep.
What a surprise! Within a few minutes minutes I was completely drawn into the story and watched intently. What made the movie so intriguing to me was that all-important aspect of movie-making — character development.
The viewer will know from the first scenes of the film that it will end in a tragedy for the character Joe. Then, a couple of minutes later, we’re sent back in time six months. There we meet Tanya, an captivating character who behaves recklessly at bars but seems entirely different at home with a daughter she obviously loves very much.
From there the story turns to her affair with Joe, started over the internet. The viewer can never be quite sure what’s going to happen. At times Tanya seems truly sincere. But the film crew has carefully crafted a lead character who just simply gave me «bad vibes.» It’s like in real life. There’s something disturbing about this woman …. but I couldn’t quite put your finger on it.
As things move along in the story, it doesn’t miss a beat. I spent the entire two hours (counting commercials) taking in every little hint of something wrong in the relationship. They both seem sincere… but the feeling never left that I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
No matter what the ending had been to this film (no spoiler here!), you have two complex very characters in an odd relationship that will keep you in real suspense.
It’s an amazing movie — well directed, wonderfully acted, realistic dialogue. I certainly never expected something this gripping!
Ten stars for «Fatal Desire.»
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8/10
Actually Pretty Good
Fatal Desire illustrates just how cunning a person can be in our walk of life. The reality came across very well in this movie. Internet meetings are very common these days. Relationships have been formed over the internet for years, so the plot is realistic. The ending didn’t surprise me, but it was interesting nonetheless. It was actually a pretty good movie. I actually chose to watch it to see the ending, rather than watch football this afternoon. Both Anne Heche and Eric Roberts did a whale of a job. I intend to watch it again, and recommend it highly. I’m quite sure you’ll enjoy it. If you liked fatal Attraction, you’ll like this one.
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8/10
Damn good for a made-for-TV movie…
Tanya Sullivan (Anne Heche) meets over Internet a great gay, casino employee Joe Donnely (Eric Roberts), an ex cop -made to resign after testifying truthfully against the PD- and divorced father. After months of hot mail, Tanya flies a first time to Atlantic City and they start to having an affair……..
Eric Roberts does a decent job in this movie. In this movie he shows that he can act. still he is played away by Heche. No one can play an uneducated, low class, skanky and manipulative slut better than Anne Heche. Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction was kids-play compared by this performance of Heche.
The Movie is slow-paced in the beginning and the script is so-so…but Heche and Roberts make the movie with their acting. Two lesser actors would have reduced it to a hack piece of garbage.
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10/10
10 stars because i like anne for years since in soaps….
i am seeing it now as i’ve been a HUGE anne heche fan for years we are the same age around,and i love her»real type of acting»in all of her roles!eric is somewhat handsome sexy charming good actor, love them two in this,have it on again tonight,since i’ve never seen the whole movie. i hear it is sad at the end,however also hear over the past few years that»she»deserve it,so i guess i will see tonight.we have it on now,and this time i am going to «finish watching the entire 2 hours!» if i do not doze off again first.as the old saying goes my IN Love parents say: treat those the way YOU en vida,(in life)wanna be treated if not it will COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU,sound like that is what is going to happen in the movie.
adios.
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7/10
Good TV Movie
Warning: Spoilers
Not a bad movie and it’s shocking that it is based on a true story.
Both Eric Roberts and Anne Heche do a good job of playing two troubled characters. Roberts character Joe is hooked on talking to a woman on-line and his obsession with her starts a chain of events that lead to him killing her husband.
He had no idea that he was being used by her and when he realizes this he takes his own life but not before making sure the evidence of her involvement is passed to the Police.
The whole story would seem far fetched were it not based on actual events.
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6/10
Surprisingly good…
Initially when I stumbled upon this 2006 movie titled «Fatal Desire» and I read the synopsis for the movie and saw who was in it, I must admit that my expectations weren’t really high. But still, it being a movie that I hadn’t seen before, was sufficient to make me sit down and watch it.
Turns out that this movie was actually rather enjoyable, and actually surprised me. In fact, I will actually say that it was an entertaining movie and while I am definitely no fan of Eric Roberts, I must admit that he was actually really good in his role in «Fatal Desire», as was Anne Heche.
Sure, the storyline is pretty simplistic and predictable, and generic for a movie of this particular genre and type. But that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. And the good acting performances definitely helped to lift up the overall movie. Personally, I must say that the whole online dating aspect that the movie had worked out very nicely.
My rating for «Fatal Desire» is a six out of ten stars, and I will actually go as far as saying that if you get the chance to watch this movie from director Ralph Hemecker then you should do so.
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10/10
divorced man meets psychotic lady on the personals on the internet
Eric Roberts was never better! Anne Heche played a very different kind of role for her. Highly recommend this movie as it displays the dangers of internet correspondence. It is available for downloads on ITunes However it cannot be burned to CDs. It will cost $3.99 to buy it but it is well worth it for you to own.
Check it out. The movie was actually filmed in Nova Scotia. For those of you who do not know, Eric Roberts is Julia Roberts brother. If you never saw Runnaway Train, Eric Roberts is terrific. He is also in a small role in the new Batman flick, «The Dark Knight.» If anyone knows of a website that this movie can be purchased, please advise.
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Fatal mistake
First of all this age old story of boy meets girl, boys falls in love with girl, girl tricks boy into dirty deeds, girl dumps boy, is done to death (no pun intended). Add to this trite, overdone and often boring movie for TV, the lack of talents from Eric Roberts and Anne Heche. Roberts looks haggard and shriveled. His acting matches his looks. I never considered this guy an actor. Just the brother of Julia making it on her name. In this it shows his ability to stretch his emotions from 1- 2. In It’s My Party, he costarred with Gregory Harrison. Harrison and a roster of guest stars made the movie a hit. Roberts was not the best in the film. And in this his co-star Heche (also known as Ellen’s ex) was just as bad. Not a looker, it was embarrassing to see her playing a sexy broad with a flat body, skinny legs and no bosom.
This movie is worse than a B picture and should be labeled one of the worst ever!
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10/10
Excellent Reenactment of a TRUE Story!
This was an excellent story and it was executed very closely to the real life story that happened. I have followed this case when it happened. This crazy b**** got exactly what she deserved, it was so sad how she manipulated someone who was already weak and mentally ill to do her dirty work. He didn’t go down without a fight and what he left behind got Her life in prison!
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7/10
DECENT TV MOVIE!
Warning: Spoilers
Read the true story on line; Many details are not accurate. If she wanted to get away with this murder, she should have kept seeing him for a few months; that was her Fatal Error! Thank God she was an idiot! And…. Jerry (REAL name) was a real gullible fool! Too bad how it turned out! He seemed like a decent person! I have to say, the character Roberts played was the biggest puss* ever, in cinema history!
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7/10
Story of a sociopath chick
Makes me think about Anne Heche’s true self. Given her sordid background and alleged sexual abuse from her pa the film seemed as if this is the true A. H. There’s a part in the film of disclosure that is rumored to have actually happened to her as a kid. Sad to think how troubled and emotionally messed up some people are in real life. Sure this was a film about someone else but seemed like this was about Anne. Go ahead and watch it. It’s very believable considering online dating is the norm. Besides the profound behind the scenes chit chat i’d say you’re peeking into Anne’s true unstable character.
Trashy psychopath.
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Действия разворачиваются осенью в Москве. Фильм начинается с того, что главные героини — «банда» из 4-х 16-ти летних девушек во главе с Надеждой — главной героиней фильма попрошайничает на вокзале.
Фильм наполнен эпизодами связанными с железнодорожными путями и местами близ них, здесь проходит вся жизнь этих девушек. У каждой есть дом и есть родители, но они больше похожи на бродяжек. Из всей этой компании на девушку похожа только Лена, красивая длинноволосая привлекающая внимание мужчин.
Главная героиня влюбляется в военного, ветерана афганской войны — Сергея Орловского. Его трагедия в том, что будучи раненным он больше не может служить Родине, как это делали все мужчины его семьи.
Надежда живет с приемной матерью — Клавдией Михайловной, она стара и больна, работает на хлебном заводе (кстати там же работают и девушки за исключением Лены). К Наде приезжает ее родная мать — Шура, она вспоминает молодость и говорит, что дочь и была ее роковой ошибкой.
Мне действительно было интересно смотреть этот фильм ведь фильмы о 1980-начале 2000 мне всегда были интересны (кстати посоветуйте если знаете хорошие с подобной тематикой ) но этот фильм толком не рассказывает ни о проблеме подростков того времени ни о безответной любви главной героини. Этот фильм ни учит ни чему и ничего не объясняет. Ставлю оценку 3 и не советую тратить на него время если вас не заинтересовало изложенное мною выше)
Кстати в теме отзыва первое фото — Надя, второе — Лена.
Спасибо за внимание!
фильм «Роковая Ошибка» метрошные стоп-кадры
GK Tramrunner
02.01.2006 05:32
съемки идут на Серпуховско Тимирязевской. Это точно
GK Tramrunner
02.01.2006 19:35
Видно что поезд проехал 2 остановки, слышны обявления про «Полянку».
Но сцену с приходяшиим «Ежом» снимали на Сухаревской.
Калужско-Рижской линии. Ляп явный, поезд пришел на Сухаревскую а садятся на него на Чеховской.
А теперь «зивые наблюдения» в 1987ом году, на карте метро Серпуховская линия шла от Боровицкой на Юг. Севернее она не шла. А в 1988ом вдруг пошла? В какой году была открыта «Савеловская» помню что Севернее поезда пошли в 1991ом, об этом даже в Марте того года сказали в Программе Время.
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Чувствуется, что режисёр фильма имеет пристрастие к поездам.
Новогодние подарки
Конст. Карасёв
02.01.2006 21:19
Участок Чеховская-Савёловская открыт под Новый 1989 год.
Таких «подарков» было немало, Люблинская линия тоже открылась 31 декабря 1995.
да помню даже по радио говорили, 31го Декабря 1988го
GK Tramrunner
02.01.2006 22:36
к тому же мой папа был в Москве в 7го Декабря 1988го
и заметил что Савеловский Вокзал снесли.
Удивительно, А Чеховская когда была открыта?
Мне кажется что в 1987ом конечной была Боровицкая, или я не прав.
А мне что-то кажется что часть линии была сначала
открыта потом временно закрыта
P.S>>
Кстати, чтобы вам забросить мои компакт диски, надо доехать до Савеловской?
Re: да помню даже по радио говорили, 31го Декабря 1988го
DФ
03.01.2006 00:05
GK Tramrunner писал(а):
> к тому же мой папа был в Москве в 7го Декабря 1988го
> и заметил что Савеловский Вокзал снесли.
Его не сносили, он был закрыт на реконструкцию. Прекрасно чувствует себя и поныне — http://parovoz.com/newgallery/index.php?ID=9468&LNG=RU
> Удивительно, А Чеховская когда была открыта?
31/12/87
> А мне что-то кажется что часть линии была сначала
> открыта потом временно закрыта
Не путаете ли Вы?
на старой карте Московского Метро, (начала 1980ый) и Цветной Бульвар был
GK Tramrunner
03.01.2006 00:26
и весь путь до Новослободской, возможно это было показано как строяшяяся линия
Re: Новогодние подарки
Путеводитель
03.01.2006 01:47
Конст. Карасёв писал(а):
> Участок Чеховская-Савёловская открыт под Новый 1989 год.
> Таких «подарков» было немало, Люблинская линия тоже открылась
> 31 декабря 1995.
В декабре 1995, но только 29, а не 31.
Re: фильм «Роковая Ошибка» метрошные стоп-кадры
dopefish
04.01.2006 17:58
Открыт-Закрыт был южный участок Замоскворецкой линии
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Для поклонников Алисы Фрейндлих этот малоизвестный фильм — просто лакомый кусочек!
Я не помню, как в интернете наткнулась на этот фильм. Но дожив до 30 лет я ни разу нигде ранее о нем даже не слышала! Сказала маме — она тоже его никогда не смотрела.. Хоть мы обе и любим творчество Алисы Фрейндих, но с этот фильм где-то прятался от нас) Итак, кто такая Серафима Глюкина?
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Красивый мистический фильм с интересным сюжетом и детективными нотками. Вызов художника Творцу и Смерти. Что же из этого получилось?
Здравствуйте. С удовольствием посмотрела один из немногих мистических советских фильмов,который считается и первым фильмом ужасов этой эпохи. Очень люблю мистику, фильм произвёл хорошее впечатление, а сюжет его взят из рассказа А. Грина «Серый автомобиль».
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Тема любви великой и прекрасной богини к смертному достаточно отработанна в сказках всех времён и народов мира. Есть и русская народная сказка «Царевна-лягушка» в которой она тоже присутствует, правда, не совсем в первозданном виде, но сути это не меняет.
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С удовольствием посмотрел, очень хороший фильм
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«у меня ничего нет и мне ничего не надо, кроме детства»
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«надо же хоть раз в жизни сказать правду»
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Гамлет, принц датский. Акт II (Шекспир) Из всех вариантов кинематографа я отдаю предпочтение британскому. Из всех британских режиссёров я отдаю предпочтение Питеру Гринуэю. Художник, кинорежиссёр, филолог и философ, Питер Джон Гринуэй родился в Уэльсе в 1942 году. Друзья, ОН ЖИВ!!!
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Впечатление неоднозначное, в одну фразу не умещается.
Недавно здесь же писала отзыв на книгу и обещалась кино посмотреть. Посмотрела. На мой взгляд, правильная экранизация, в том смысле, что книга переработана и выбраны основные линии и персонажи: Тереза — Томаш, Томаш — Сабина, Сабина Франц. Ни слова о сыне Томаша, полслова о жене Франца. К чему я?
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«Мне было 14 лет, ей за 50. Это была бабушка моего друга. Она меня совратила!…» Прохор Шаляпин — бессовестный альфонс или травмированный в детстве мужчина? Исповедь, которая оставляет после себя неоднозначные впечатления.
Приветствую. Наверно, если вы заглянули в этот отзыв, то знаете, кто такой Прохор Шаляпин. Я его узнала благодаря «Фабрике Звезд», а затем — последовавшему скандалу, связанному с тем, что он — не потомок легендарного Федора Шаляпина, за которого Андрей (настоящее имя Прохора) себя длительное время…
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Фильм, запрещенный к прокату. Не приятная правда о событиях столетней давности, стоило ли их обнажать?
Всем привет! Сегодня хочу поделиться впечатлениями по поводу одного документального фильма, на который случайно наткнулась на Ютуб. Меня привлекло его название — «Голод» и почему-то я думала, что события, которые затронуты в этом фильме, были в другие времена.
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Самый худший день рождения Елены Сергеевны, шедевральный советский фильм. Свежий взгляд на вечную классику.
Приветствую Вас! Примерно с десятой минуты просмотра этого фильма, мне искренне хотелось дать подзатыльник всем присутствующим в гостях у Елены Сергеевны, и искренне было жаль учительницу.
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Реальная история. В годы ВОВ обычная семья усыновила 14 детей. Или мои слезы с первого и до последнего кадра.
Всем привет! У меня своеобразный вкус на кино. Люблю разные фильмы, вне зависимости от их года выпуска. Советское кино для меня особенное. Не могу сказать, что от всех фильмов я в восторге. Что-то является некой классикой, что-то приелось.
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«Два метра под уровнем земли» — что может случиться, если в реальной жизни выбрать себе такого мужчину, как Аче. Чем покорить сердце брутального красавчика, если вас «тянет» на плохих парней. Разбираю знаменитую мелодраму с точки зрения психологии
Несмотря на весьма тривиальный сюжет и посредственную, на мой взгляд, игру актеров, экранизация романа Федерико Моччиа «Три метра над уровнем неба» в исполнении режиссера Фернандо Г.
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Как стать порнозвездой в 19 лет и не остаться с разованной «изольдой»? Хотела удовольствия и денег, получила боль и низкую самооценку. Смотреть глупышкам, которые мечтают о подобном «труде».
Как же меня раздражают все эти восторженные малолетки, которые вместо того чтобы учиться и самосовершенствоваться — мечтают о карьере в порно… Ну, чтобы раздвигать рогатки и открывать рот — много ума не нужно, а почёт в современном мире великий.
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Убийственная красота от короля британского постмодернизма. Питер Гринуэй, великий и ужасный. Мой кумир, в честь которого я сняла собственное кино. Видео в конце.
Гамлет, принц датский. Акт II (Шекспир) Из всех вариантов кинематографа я отдаю предпочтение британскому. Из всех британских режиссёров я отдаю предпочтение Питеру Гринуэю. Художник, кинорежиссёр, филолог и философ, Питер Джон Гринуэй родился в Уэльсе в 1942 году. Друзья, ОН ЖИВ!!!
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Деревенскую школьницу оказалось легко развести на запретное… Печальный фильм с откровенными сценами
В подростковом возрасте, многим девчонкам нехило сносит крышу и они начинают чудить. В таком нестабильном, переменчивом эмоциональном состоянии ими легко манипулировать и от этого реально страшно. Чем заслужила главная героиня данного фильма все свои страдания? Да ничем.
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Жизнь проститутки — это всё равно ад, будь эта проститутка хоть трижды «элитной». После просмотра захочется принять душ и почистить зубы
Женщин с низкой социальной ответственностью, а попросту — проституток, вроде как принято разделять на «элитных» и «обычных». Там, наверное, ещё какие- то разделения есть, но главное в том, что элитные как-то выделяются. Так уж у людей вообще принято — всех нужно по какому-то признаку разделять.
8/10
Actions have consequences, even online…..
This was based on the true story of Tanya Sullivan, and how she set up an acquaintance she met while searching an online dating service.
Anne Heche is very good as the lead, a selfish, bored and somewhat disturbed housewife in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eric Roberts becomes enraptured, he is a retired New Jersey cop who works as a pit boss in Atlantic City. His life has unraveled, and he sees Tanya as an answer to his depression.
While the locations and facts may have been altered to protect the guilty in this case, the story is intriguing in that we see the initial meeting, infatuation, and story-telling that often exists. Eric Roberts is a sympathetic character, in that he thinks he has found true love.
Overall a good story worth watching. 8/10.
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7/10
A man and his demons
Warning: Spoilers
**SPOILER ALERT** Living alone with his twelve year son Teddy,James Edward Campbell, divorced ex-cop and now Atlantic City Casino pit-boss Joe, Eric Roberts, wants to start up a new relationship and does it by going on an internet dating website. It’s there that Joe gets in contact by E-Mail with the hot and sexy Tanya Sullivan,Anne Heche, whom he tells that he’s a big Atlantic City Casino honcho who in fact owns or is part owner of an expensive Atlantic City Casino called the Golden Treasure.
Before he knows it Tanya is sending Joe all kinds of sexy E-Mail photos of herself as well as a steamy video tape that has Joe all heated up to meet her and start up a wild hot and physical relationship with Tanya. Having been a cop Joe should have immediately picked up Tanya’s body languages when he told her a short time after they finally met in the flesh that he’s not the casino owner but just a poor working stiff who’s employed there. Finding that Joe isn’t the daddy big bucks that she expected him to be almost had Tanya blow it by walking out on the guy after spending an evening with him in a Golden Treasure hotel room. ***SPOILER***Regaining her composer Tanya instead decided to use the clueless, to what her intentions are, Joe to do in her hard working husband Mark, Mark A. Owens, who runs a junkyard in Pittsburgh Pa.
Making up this vicious cock & bull story about Mark being «in» with the mob Tanya gets Joe to believe that he’s an abusive husband and in fact will kill her if he ever found out that she’s having an affair with him. Trying to get Tanya to divorce Mark only has her get Joe deeper into her sinister plan in telling Joe that he would kill her if she ever as much as left him for another man. The final kicker is after Tanya told Joe that she’s pregnant with his child that within days he gets the bad news, via E-Mail of course, that Mark had his boys do a number on her beating and water-boarding, in the family swimming pool, Tanya! If that wasn’t enough to get Joe all steamed up Tanya told him that Mark also had his hoods not only rape her, in front of him, but also had her, and Joe’s, unborn child forcibly aborted! All this was shown to Joe with a number of E-Mail photos of Tanya’s face and body savagely bruised and battered!
It’s sad to say that Joe, having been a cop for years, let his emotions take over his common sense in not realizing that he’s being set up to do Tanya’s dirty work. It’s Joe’s blind love and affection for the scheming and manipulative Tanya that in the end not only literately destroyed his life but the lives of everyone including his son Teddy and fellow Golden Treasure worker casino card dealer Pula, Katheer York, who really cared for him.
The movie in fact does have an happy ending in that Tanya didn’t get away with what she did to both Joe and her husband Mark. Being so much in love with Tanya Joe kept all the E-Mail, which turned out to be evidence against her, that Tanya sent him. Tanya tried to put the by then broken and suicidally depressed Joe out of her life forever by wiping out all the memories, as well as E-Mails, that she had received through the internet from him. It was just too bad for her that Joe was still holding a torch for Tanya, despite how she treated him, and that torch in the end was what burned her.
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9/10
Fatal Desire-When SexyKitten meets Jersey Dude Online **** Results
Warning: Spoilers
Eric Roberts has matured but has never been better than an alcoholic ex-cop who gets involved online with an apparently unhappy woman who is married. Their above names are their online names.
They meet online and a raging affair ensues linking Pittsburgh, Pa. and Atlantic City, N.J.
Trouble is that a lot starts to evolve from the affair. Our «kitten» becomes pregnant and tells of her abusive husband who may be mob linked.
Enraged when she informs him that she loses the child, Roberts, who urged Heche to remain non-violent confronts the husband and shoots him to death. It’s at this point where the story really turns. Heche shows great acting in her change to a vicious, calculating woman who used Roberts to further her goal.
Will not give away the ending but will say-«Hell hath no fury like a man who is scorned.»
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5/10
Fatal Error
This made for TV thriller is based on a book entitled «Fatal Error,» which is almost what this film turned out to be. Toward the end, once the murder actually takes place, «Fatal Desire» picks up a little speed to a somewhat unexpected conclusion. The movie spends too much time on background, even attempting unsuccessfully to introduce a subplot involving Joe’s (Eric Roberts) son who is caught in the middle of his father’s chaotic lifestyle. Along these same lines, Tanya (Anne Heche), the troubled woman Joe meets via a chat room on the net, has a daughter, who once introduced nearly disappears from the story.
The plot, based on a true story, sounds exciting on the surface. A lonely divorced man, Joe, begins meeting women online, which spices up his life. A co-worker at the casino where he works continually hits on him, even informing him that she hasn’t had sex in twelve months. Joe views her as a good friend, someone to whom he can talk and confide his feelings. She warns him about the dangers of net dating. He becomes drawn to an online femme fatale, Tanya, who not only comes on to him but even sends him revealing photos through his e-mail. The couple ultimately meet and seem to be very compatible. One problem, Tanya is married. The two begin to spend time together when suddenly Tanya informs Joe that she is pregnant with his baby. Tanya claims that her husband is abusive. She e-mails Joe pictures of her bruises; then tells him that she has lost the baby as a result of the beatings and a gang rape that her husband engineered. This sends Joe over the edge with predictable results.
Anne Heche takes the acting accolades without any real competition. Her part even involves a salacious dance or two including vocals. She plays her role so well that she convinces the audience of her sincerity yet is also believable when her true colors start showing. Unfortunately, Eric Roberts, who looks aged and tired, seems to be walking through his portrayal of the complex character Joe. Could be that he has played this type person so often that he has become burnt out. The others in the cast are adequate, especially the actress playing Joe’s co-worker and confidant.
The last fifteen minutes are worthwhile, if you can stay awake through the first hour and a half. This is one of those shows that should have been much better, with such an intriguing premise. That chat rooms and net dating services rely on fantasy and wish fulfillment that often lead to unrealistic and even dangerous consequences is a subject that still needs to be explored more fully in a suspense film.
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8/10
Good Film With Eric Roberts
I watched this film because Eric Roberts stars in it. He is one of my fave actors. Although Eric is probably approaching 50, he still looks very handsome and sexy, and has obviously kept himself in shape — as evidenced by some shirtless scenes where he looks darn good.
Eric, who is sadly underrated as an actor, in my opinion, does a fine job in this romantic thriller.
Eric plays a character named Joe, a guy who works in a casino in Atlantic City. A newly divorced dad, he’s ripe for a new relationship and finds it with a gal named Tanya (Anne Heche), who calls herself sexykitten on-line. That’s right, they meet via the Internet.
Joe and Tanya (I noted the characters names evidently were changed since the list of the cast was first given to IMDb), quickly become enamored with one another and he is anxious to meet her in person.
She arrives in Atlantic City and fireworks happen. There are a few little problems for the lovers, however. Tanya confesses to Joe that she is married, and eventually tells Joe her husband, Mark, is physically abusive to her.
Joe has had a few problems himself along the way, and he is sympathetic to Tanya’s situation.
They stay in touch after she returns home to Pittsburgh.
Joe wants Tanya to leave her husband, but she is reluctant and fearful.
Things become more intense when threats, and violence occur, followed by some unexpected revelations.
The film was well-paced, entertaining, and held my interest throughout.
8 stars out of 10
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8/10
Based On A True Story
I caught this movie on the LMN TV channel.
Eventually I realized it is based on a true story. There’s also an episode of the TV show ‘Forensic Files’ about this case called ‘Web Of Seduction’.
In the real story these people met in the chat rooms on AOL which I used to go into quite often. However I didn’t hang out in the types of chat rooms they met in.
People have to be careful when meeting people anonymously on the internet and then getting involved with them.
It’s a good movie, especially by LMN standards, and is relevant for today’s world where people meet on the internet. It starts out quite romantically.
Jeff Marzano
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10/10
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Warning: Spoilers
I saw this film last night when it premiered on the Lifetime network and was very impressed with it. It was absolutely superb from start to finish. It stars Eric Roberts and Anne Heche, two excellent actors who give a tour de force performance here. To say that their performances are outstanding would be an understatement. They played their respective characters with such realism and believability, I almost forgot that I was just watching a movie. Based on a true story, the film explores the perils and pitfalls of looking for romance on the Internet. In this, it shares a similarity with another film that Lifetime showed in 1993. That film was called «Dying To Love You» starring Tracy Pollan. Although that film used the personal ads medium as its hook instead of the Internet, the idea was basically the same- lonely divorced father meets beautiful woman with tragic results. In «Fatal Desire», Eric Roberts plays an ex-police detective from Rhode Island now working as a pit boss at an Atlantic City casino. He starts an e-mail relationship with Anne Heche, who plays a married woman named Tanya Sullivan living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her young daughter and a husband whom she says abuses her. When they finally meet in person, they’re very obviously smitten with one another and consummate their relationship right away. Heche’s character displays a certain edginess hinting at a possible mental instability. Nonetheless, Roberts falls in love with her and tries to convince her to divorce her husband so they can be married. She tells him that’s not an option and that her husband found out she was fooling around and beat her bloody. The photos she e-mails Roberts, showing her bruised and battered face, seem to bear out her story. To put the icing on the cake, she tells Roberts that her husband also hired two men to beat and rape her as well. Roberts tells her he’s going to take care of the problem and she gives him directions to the auto salvage yard where he works. After «taking care» of the problem, Roberts finds that Heche has cut off all communication with him- no e-mails, no phone calls, nothing. The police initially treat what happened as a burglary gone bad. The film takes a few neat twists and turns here when Roberts finally confronts her in person. Another twist involves payback from beyond the grave, though not in a supernatural sense. And the last is in the revealing of Tanya’s personality- and it isn’t pretty. What she does in the last scene, when being interrogated at police headquarters, is quite unnerving and will leave a chill running down your spine. This is a phenomenal production and I give it a 10 out of 10, hands down.
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10/10
Excellent film and pairing
The two leads here may not have the star power of Eric Roberts’ sister or, say, Harrison Ford — but I’d rather watch either of them than their more acclaimed counterparts. I’d spend two hours watching Anne Heche sitting, looking at a wall while the paint dried. She was perfect as the vampish sexpot here. Eric looked a little tired at times (some of it due to the characterization) and parts of his performance were a bit «wooden.» However, this can be excused. If my count is correct, according to his IMDb biography, he has been in 14 productions either released in 2006 or for release in 2007. This picture is interesting throughout, and does something even a lot of top-budget films don’t accomplish. The scenes and situations show a realism throughout, in terms of the sets, locations, and presentation — for example, the casino in Atlantic City, Roberts’ and Heche’s respective dwellings, and all the other sites. The supporting cast also all ring true. Although the A+ types such as Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan get the major big screen gigs — and while I enjoy their pairings, I’d just as soon (maybe prefer) seeing Heche and Roberts in one of that type of production.
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5/10
The second half is the better part so patience is required.
Some facts about Fatal Desire: It’s a tv-movie so sadly it isn’t of the highest quality. It’s based on a true story which makes it a bit more interesting to watch. It’s starring Eric Roberts, which in my opinion is not a guarantee for great acting, but in this case it wasn’t that bad, certainly not his worst movie. The chemistry between Anne Heche and Eric Roberts is a bit cheesy to watch in the beginning but you’re get used to it. The best part of the movie is the last part but you have to wait long for it so patience is the keyword here. In conclusion for a tv-movie it’s worth a watch but it’s just not great cinema.
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8/10
Damn good for a made-for-TV movie…
Tanya Sullivan (Anne Heche) meets over Internet a great gay, casino employee Joe Donnely (Eric Roberts), an ex cop -made to resign after testifying truthfully against the PD- and divorced father. After months of hot mail, Tanya flies a first time to Atlantic City and they start to having an affair……..
Eric Roberts does a decent job in this movie. In this movie he shows that he can act. still he is played away by Heche. No one can play an uneducated, low class, skanky and manipulative slut better than Anne Heche. Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction was kids-play compared by this performance of Heche.
The Movie is slow-paced in the beginning and the script is so-so…but Heche and Roberts make the movie with their acting. Two lesser actors would have reduced it to a hack piece of garbage.
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10/10
Surprisingly Good — Recommended
Some time back, I read a brief summary of this film in a TV program listing online. For some reason, it sounded better than it’s rather «soapish» title would suggest. I recorded it, then all but forgot about it…. until….
Until, in the midst of packing and preparing to move to another state, I got so tired and anxious about the work that I decided to watch some of those old recordings in the hopes that they would get my mind off things. «Fatal Desire» was last of the recorded shows. I couldn’t remember why I taped something with a title like that, and counted on it to be worth 15 minutes of watching and put me to sleep.
What a surprise! Within a few minutes minutes I was completely drawn into the story and watched intently. What made the movie so intriguing to me was that all-important aspect of movie-making — character development.
The viewer will know from the first scenes of the film that it will end in a tragedy for the character Joe. Then, a couple of minutes later, we’re sent back in time six months. There we meet Tanya, an captivating character who behaves recklessly at bars but seems entirely different at home with a daughter she obviously loves very much.
From there the story turns to her affair with Joe, started over the internet. The viewer can never be quite sure what’s going to happen. At times Tanya seems truly sincere. But the film crew has carefully crafted a lead character who just simply gave me «bad vibes.» It’s like in real life. There’s something disturbing about this woman …. but I couldn’t quite put your finger on it.
As things move along in the story, it doesn’t miss a beat. I spent the entire two hours (counting commercials) taking in every little hint of something wrong in the relationship. They both seem sincere… but the feeling never left that I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
No matter what the ending had been to this film (no spoiler here!), you have two complex very characters in an odd relationship that will keep you in real suspense.
It’s an amazing movie — well directed, wonderfully acted, realistic dialogue. I certainly never expected something this gripping!
Ten stars for «Fatal Desire.»
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8/10
Actually Pretty Good
Fatal Desire illustrates just how cunning a person can be in our walk of life. The reality came across very well in this movie. Internet meetings are very common these days. Relationships have been formed over the internet for years, so the plot is realistic. The ending didn’t surprise me, but it was interesting nonetheless. It was actually a pretty good movie. I actually chose to watch it to see the ending, rather than watch football this afternoon. Both Anne Heche and Eric Roberts did a whale of a job. I intend to watch it again, and recommend it highly. I’m quite sure you’ll enjoy it. If you liked fatal Attraction, you’ll like this one.
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10/10
10 stars because i like anne for years since in soaps….
i am seeing it now as i’ve been a HUGE anne heche fan for years we are the same age around,and i love her»real type of acting»in all of her roles!eric is somewhat handsome sexy charming good actor, love them two in this,have it on again tonight,since i’ve never seen the whole movie. i hear it is sad at the end,however also hear over the past few years that»she»deserve it,so i guess i will see tonight.we have it on now,and this time i am going to «finish watching the entire 2 hours!» if i do not doze off again first.as the old saying goes my IN Love parents say: treat those the way YOU en vida,(in life)wanna be treated if not it will COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU,sound like that is what is going to happen in the movie.
adios.
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7/10
Good TV Movie
Warning: Spoilers
Not a bad movie and it’s shocking that it is based on a true story.
Both Eric Roberts and Anne Heche do a good job of playing two troubled characters. Roberts character Joe is hooked on talking to a woman on-line and his obsession with her starts a chain of events that lead to him killing her husband.
He had no idea that he was being used by her and when he realizes this he takes his own life but not before making sure the evidence of her involvement is passed to the Police.
The whole story would seem far fetched were it not based on actual events.
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10/10
Excellent Reenactment of a TRUE Story!
This was an excellent story and it was executed very closely to the real life story that happened. I have followed this case when it happened. This crazy b**** got exactly what she deserved, it was so sad how she manipulated someone who was already weak and mentally ill to do her dirty work. He didn’t go down without a fight and what he left behind got Her life in prison!
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7/10
Story of a sociopath chick
Makes me think about Anne Heche’s true self. Given her sordid background and alleged sexual abuse from her pa the film seemed as if this is the true A. H. There’s a part in the film of disclosure that is rumored to have actually happened to her as a kid. Sad to think how troubled and emotionally messed up some people are in real life. Sure this was a film about someone else but seemed like this was about Anne. Go ahead and watch it. It’s very believable considering online dating is the norm. Besides the profound behind the scenes chit chat i’d say you’re peeking into Anne’s true unstable character.
Trashy psychopath.
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6/10
Surprisingly good…
Initially when I stumbled upon this 2006 movie titled «Fatal Desire» and I read the synopsis for the movie and saw who was in it, I must admit that my expectations weren’t really high. But still, it being a movie that I hadn’t seen before, was sufficient to make me sit down and watch it.
Turns out that this movie was actually rather enjoyable, and actually surprised me. In fact, I will actually say that it was an entertaining movie and while I am definitely no fan of Eric Roberts, I must admit that he was actually really good in his role in «Fatal Desire», as was Anne Heche.
Sure, the storyline is pretty simplistic and predictable, and generic for a movie of this particular genre and type. But that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. And the good acting performances definitely helped to lift up the overall movie. Personally, I must say that the whole online dating aspect that the movie had worked out very nicely.
My rating for «Fatal Desire» is a six out of ten stars, and I will actually go as far as saying that if you get the chance to watch this movie from director Ralph Hemecker then you should do so.
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10/10
divorced man meets psychotic lady on the personals on the internet
Eric Roberts was never better! Anne Heche played a very different kind of role for her. Highly recommend this movie as it displays the dangers of internet correspondence. It is available for downloads on ITunes However it cannot be burned to CDs. It will cost $3.99 to buy it but it is well worth it for you to own.
Check it out. The movie was actually filmed in Nova Scotia. For those of you who do not know, Eric Roberts is Julia Roberts brother. If you never saw Runnaway Train, Eric Roberts is terrific. He is also in a small role in the new Batman flick, «The Dark Knight.» If anyone knows of a website that this movie can be purchased, please advise.
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Fatal mistake
First of all this age old story of boy meets girl, boys falls in love with girl, girl tricks boy into dirty deeds, girl dumps boy, is done to death (no pun intended). Add to this trite, overdone and often boring movie for TV, the lack of talents from Eric Roberts and Anne Heche. Roberts looks haggard and shriveled. His acting matches his looks. I never considered this guy an actor. Just the brother of Julia making it on her name. In this it shows his ability to stretch his emotions from 1- 2. In It’s My Party, he costarred with Gregory Harrison. Harrison and a roster of guest stars made the movie a hit. Roberts was not the best in the film. And in this his co-star Heche (also known as Ellen’s ex) was just as bad. Not a looker, it was embarrassing to see her playing a sexy broad with a flat body, skinny legs and no bosom.
This movie is worse than a B picture and should be labeled one of the worst ever!
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7/10
DECENT TV MOVIE!
Warning: Spoilers
Read the true story on line; Many details are not accurate. If she wanted to get away with this murder, she should have kept seeing him for a few months; that was her Fatal Error! Thank God she was an idiot! And…. Jerry (REAL name) was a real gullible fool! Too bad how it turned out! He seemed like a decent person! I have to say, the character Roberts played was the biggest puss* ever, in cinema history!
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Дина Краснова
2 года назад
Люблю Эрика Робертса. Пересмотрела с ним все фильмы. Этот кстати очень даже неплох.
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