I don't think of Pittsburgh when I think of cultural influence like I do for their sports teams, but several motion Pictures and television series have attempted to change that image. "Lady Beware" is another late '80s sexual psychological thriller of the independent woman trying to change culture through what she does and getting all sorts of backlash, good and bad. At least she gets the big boss's approval. And that's all that counts, even if his wife doesn't approve.
Someone else is impacted by it, and for young Diane Lane, it's not in a good way. A man working in the office across the street (soap veteran Michael Woods) is constantly looking out of his window at the displays, and starts following her, first innocently and then dangerously, turning it into obvious stalking. Lane is constantly seen in some state of undress (which was done without the knowledge of the director), and this gives it a feeling of exploitation, certainly not the message that she wanted to project. Eventually, this descends into the formula of a made for cable movie where rushed out projects didn't really care about character over ratings.
This certainly uses Pittsburgh's locations in great detail, and the viewer gets a glimpse of the various neighborhoods and important sights, my favorite being the old Three Rivers Stadium. Even without the additional footage done without director Karen Arthur's permission, this still has elements deliberately made to titillate rather than showing the growing feet that Lane has and how she becomes strong enough to confront it later on. The film's screenwriters might have started off well meaning, but somewhere along the line just utilized the same type of methods to get audiences into the theater and forgot about what their vision originally was. After a while, it just became another boring melodrama that is quickly forgotten after the viewer is done.
Someone else is impacted by it, and for young Diane Lane, it's not in a good way. A man working in the office across the street (soap veteran Michael Woods) is constantly looking out of his window at the displays, and starts following her, first innocently and then dangerously, turning it into obvious stalking. Lane is constantly seen in some state of undress (which was done without the knowledge of the director), and this gives it a feeling of exploitation, certainly not the message that she wanted to project. Eventually, this descends into the formula of a made for cable movie where rushed out projects didn't really care about character over ratings.
This certainly uses Pittsburgh's locations in great detail, and the viewer gets a glimpse of the various neighborhoods and important sights, my favorite being the old Three Rivers Stadium. Even without the additional footage done without director Karen Arthur's permission, this still has elements deliberately made to titillate rather than showing the growing feet that Lane has and how she becomes strong enough to confront it later on. The film's screenwriters might have started off well meaning, but somewhere along the line just utilized the same type of methods to get audiences into the theater and forgot about what their vision originally was. After a while, it just became another boring melodrama that is quickly forgotten after the viewer is done.