Frances Sternhagen died recently, so I decided to watch one of her movies, although she only plays a supporting role in Brian DePalma's "Raising Cain". DePalma has spent much of his career doing homages to Hitchcock, and this has a definite Hitchcockian feel to it. Part of what's interesting about the movie is that I couldn't always tell what was real and what was in John Lithgow's character's head. It's not often that a movie makes you question your own sanity.
Basically, it's what DePalma does best. Watching this movie - or "Phantom of the Paradise", "Carrie", "Dressed to Kill", "Scarface", "Bonfire of the Vanities" or "Carlito's Way" - one realizes just how much cleverer his movies were before he turned to garbage like "Mission Impossible" (although his 2012 movie "Passion" was worth seeing).
The rest of the cast includes Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer and Gregg Henry.
Basically, it's what DePalma does best. Watching this movie - or "Phantom of the Paradise", "Carrie", "Dressed to Kill", "Scarface", "Bonfire of the Vanities" or "Carlito's Way" - one realizes just how much cleverer his movies were before he turned to garbage like "Mission Impossible" (although his 2012 movie "Passion" was worth seeing).
The rest of the cast includes Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer and Gregg Henry.