Jade (1995)

Director:

William Friedkin

Guionista (WGA):

Joe Eszterhas (written by)

Release Date:

13 octubre 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller | Drama

Frase comercial:

Some fantasies go too far.

Plot:

Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation...

Plot Keywords:

Whodunit | Car Chase | Paranoid | Parade | Crimes Of Passion

Awards:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Didn't Joe Eszterhas Write A Similar Script ?

Cast

David Caruso	...	David Corelli
Linda Fiorentino	...	Trina Gavin
Chazz Palminteri	...	Matt Gavin
Richard Crenna	...	Gov. Lew Edwards
Michael Biehn	...	Bob Hargrove
Donna Murphy	...	Karen Heller
Ken King	...	Petey Vesko
Holt McCallany	...	Bill Barrett
David Hunt	...	Pat Callendar
Angie Everhart	...	Patrice Jacinto
Kevin Tighe	...	Dist. Atty. Arnold Clifford
Robin Thomas	...	Mr. Green
Jay Jacobus	...	Justin Henderson
Victoria Smith	...	Sandy
Drew Snyder	...	Executive

También conocida como:

Jade (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for grisly afterviews of murder victims, violence, language and strong scenes of aberrant sexuality.

Duración:

95 min | USA:107 min (director's cut)

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | South Korea:18 | USA:Unrated (home video version) | USA:R (certificate #33482) | Australia:R | Singapore:PG (video rating) (cut) | Singapore:R(A) | Argentina:16 | Canada:R | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:III | Italy:VM18 | Norway:18 | Peru:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

According to Joe Eszterhas's autobiography he hated the final film. Director William Friedkin changed Eszterhas's SCRIPT so much, he threatened to remove his name from the credits. Paramount settled with him by giving him a "blind script deal" worth two to four Million Dollars.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The woman who is hit by the car is pulled by a very visible wire.

Quotes:

Bob Hargrove: [entering Matt Gavin's house] Cosy little pad.
Petey Vesko: Yeah. Kind of like Candlestick Park.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)

Soundtrack:

Excerpts from 'Le Sacre Du Printemps'

Didn't Joe Eszterhas Write A Similar Script ?

I'm the sort of guy who stays behind to read the closing credits of a movie . I'm also the sort of guy who makes a note of who the producer , director and screenwriter is . I guess that's the difference between the average IMDb user and the average movie watcher . The movie watcher is only interested in the genre of the movie and who stars in it and very little else . Being a regular contributor to this site means I notice names average movie watcher has little interest in . The downside to this is that a name appearing on the credits can prejudice my view of a film

Take JADE for instance which was written by Joe Eszterhas . Did my knowledge of Eszterhas mean that I think this movie is very similar in tone to BASIC INSTINCT whereas it's not and any comparison lies in my own biased knowledge of the screenwriter , or is JADE genuinely similar to BASIC INSTINCT ? Certainly this is a movie that seems to have been produced with the same market trend for erotic thrillers that were being made at the time , with the worst one being that one with Madonna and Willem Defoe

The plot revolves around a murder and a senior DA is brought in and the main suspect is a femme fatale with dubious sexual tastes . Cue lots of sexual intrigue , sleazy deviants and plot twists , few of which are convincing . And being the sort of guy who makes notes of who the director is I couldn't help noticing that William Friedkin is the guy who made THE FRENCH CONNECTION a film famous for a car chase . We get to see a car chase here which ends in the death of several million Chinese . If someone is thinking of doing a bio-pic on Chairman Mao they could do worse than hire Friedkin as the director !

I will say a couple of good things about JADE . The first is that Linda Fiorentino is very well cast as Trina Gavin who just oozes an understated smouldering sexuality , she's far better than than Sharon Stone in BASIC INSTINCT and a million miles better than Madonna in BODY OF EVIDENCE . Secondly I just love the very haunting quasi Celtic song The Mystic's Dream by Lorenna McKennitt . But apart from that JADE isn't really worth going out of your way to see