![]() ![]() The seduction is carried out among the luxurious trappings one associates with old Ross Hunter films ( All That Heaven Allows, Back Street, etc.) and if you can enjoy the long romantic scenes, the opulent music and gratuitous nudity (I could and did) time passes pleasantly till things come to a head. Even his publisher (a nice character part by George Wendt) says so. Amid the loot from the condo is a lock box containing Williams’ private journals, wherein she keeps her innermost thoughts and fantasies-for the millennials out there, that’s what folks used to do with their private thoughts and fantasies before there was Facebook.Īnyway, Bauer reads the journals, becomes intrigued by the inner woman and sets out to seduce the outer one – a task made easier because he knows which buttons to push, and because her husband is a self-absorbed dullard. Writer-Director Stewart generates a certain amount of suspense here, and then…Īnd then things take a turn for the Romantic. Getting back to Bauer, though, he starts the film with a raid on an ultra-chic condo owned by John Getz and Barbara Williams, best-selling children’s book author and trendy interior designer, respectively. This character is to be taken no more seriously than Raffles, Arsene Lupin, The Lone Wolf, or any of those International Jewel thieves who were once played by real luminaries like John Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, or William Powell. So rich that he can afford a mega-warehouse apartment in San Francisco, a boat at the marina, a fancy sports car… Hunky Steven Bauer, he of the chiseled face and biceps, plays a cat burglar extraordinaire, grown rich from preying on the very wealthy. And while I will discuss the plot in some detail here, I have to say I’m revealing no more than the original release trailer did. So well done that you don’t mistake it for an actual crime film, it’s highly enjoyable on its own terms. Written & directed by Douglas Day Stewart.Ī lush romantic fantasy dressed up as a crime film in the bright-pastel Miami Vice mode. Steven Bauer, Barbara Wiliams, John Getz, David Caruso, and George Wendt.
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