Carte Nix (John Lithgow) has an unhealthy scientific obsession with his daughter's education, something his wife Jenny Nix (Lolita Davidovich) thinks is going too far.
There are thrillers so far-fetched that only at the end when we start to think about the plot do we see that it doesn't make any sense, but in this one it's the opposite: it reaches a point where it embraces the far-fetched knowing that it is far-fetched and continues with far-fetched taste, not trying to be more serious than that, even suggesting that it is a parody of Hitchcockian thrillers.
Brian De Palma brings together all of his trademark images in this film: the multiple personality disorder (which in this film really hits home), the adulterous wife, the slow motion, the stalking camera and a whole bunch of other clichés culminating in an ending... that just seen. Well-acted. It's not meant to be taken seriously, and with that in mind from the beginning, it even becomes fun.
There are thrillers so far-fetched that only at the end when we start to think about the plot do we see that it doesn't make any sense, but in this one it's the opposite: it reaches a point where it embraces the far-fetched knowing that it is far-fetched and continues with far-fetched taste, not trying to be more serious than that, even suggesting that it is a parody of Hitchcockian thrillers.
Brian De Palma brings together all of his trademark images in this film: the multiple personality disorder (which in this film really hits home), the adulterous wife, the slow motion, the stalking camera and a whole bunch of other clichés culminating in an ending... that just seen. Well-acted. It's not meant to be taken seriously, and with that in mind from the beginning, it even becomes fun.