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The Bedroom Window
Review by Dianne Weaver
The style is vaguely Hitchcock;
the hero is confused with the vil
lain and the villain just might get
away with the hideous murders he
has committed. But writer/director
Curtis Hanson does not quite pull
off the right combination of
cinematography and suspense to be
compared to the master of
thrillers.
Don’t take me wrong—it is a
good movie and it is suspenseful.
It’s just that it will not be remem
bered as one of the classics.
The plot is too predictable. We
know before the hero does what
kind of mess he has gotten himself
into. The story, however, is a good
one and the scenes flow into one
another quite smoothly.
Steve Guttenburg convincingly
pulls off his innocent portrayal of
Terry Lambert, the “romantic
fool” who tries to be a hero. His
first mistake is sleeping with his
boss’s exotic wife, Sylvia (Isabelle
Huppert). What an odd couple!
She is obviously having the affair
out of pure and utter boredom, but
he is blinded by love.
Sylvia witnesses a near-murder
from Terry’s bedroom window.
She stops the potential killer from
finishing off Denise (Elizabeth
McGovern) just in time. The killer
and the witness get a good look at
one another. Later, Sylvia and
Terry find out about a rape/murder
committed just blocks away on the
very same night. They connect the
two incidents and feel compelled
to do something about it. Since
Sylvia’s presence in Terry’s
bedroom cannot be revealed, he
impulsively decides to call the
police and pretend that he was the
witness.
He poses as the witness uncon
vincingly; Denise suspects a lie
from the first time she sees him at
the line-up. Terry follows a guy he
intuitively believes is the “one”
but he wishes to prove the man’s
the culprit on his own before he
says anything to the police. After
all, he didn’t actually see the guy
doing the dastardly deed.
He does discover that the man
he is following is the killer. The
killer is brought to trial but the
defense finds a loophole in Terry’s
story and the killer is set free.
From that point on, the hero
gets more and more tangled in a
web of confusion. The police
suspect that he is the killer
because they know he lied about
being the witness, they just don’t
know why. Sylvia refuses to come
forward with the truth; she’s more
concerned about her husband’s
anger and her reputation. The only
way that Terry can clear himself is
to set a trap for the killer. To do
this he and Denise team up and
once again Terry nearly botches
the plan.
Denise Connely seems to be the
girl next-door type at first, but we
discover that she is also tough-as
nails and smart. The only thing
that was entirely out of place
about her character is her apparent
lack of trauma after being so
brutally attacked. That was just too
unrealistic.
But if she had just managed to
cover up the trauma, at least she
would probably not have the desire
to be touched by a man so soon
after the incident. Her sexual en
counter with Terry is just too
incongruous. Curtis Hanson just
doesn’t give us a realistic female
victim recovering from a traumatic
event. He ignored those feelings
entirely and made Denise less of a
human being. Perhaps, Hanson
was just aiming for an R rating
and had to throw in a little more
nudity.
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The Bedroom Window reminds me
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of a Hitchcock thriller. In Body
Double, there were many sur
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a visually surreal motion picture.
Body Double could give you
nightmares or make you chew your
nails for a week afterward, but
The Bedroom Window is easily
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Alien*: Warrant officer Ripley, who alone sur
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Bedroom Window: To protect his lover's iden
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beating. Stars Steve Guttenberg (Cocoon), Isabelle
Huppert, and Elizabeth McGovern. Cinema World
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Crimes of the Heart: Dramatic comedy. Three
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Sissy Spacek, and Jessica Lange. Based on the
Pulitzer caliber play. Cinema World (342-6536).
Critical Condition: Comedy. Richard Pryor stars
a a patient in a hospital during a power failure.
Valley River Twin (686-8633).
Crocodile Dundee: A celebrated Aussie adven
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Big Apple. Oakway (342-5351).
Down By Law: A pimp, an out-of-work DJ, and
an Italian tourist all end up in the same jail.
Directed by Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than
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The Golden Child: Eddie Murphy is the social
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The Little Shop of Horror*: Rick Moranis
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Lost City of Gold: Starts this weekend at
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The Minion: A former slave trader helps a
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The Name of the Rote: A medieval monk in
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Outrageous Fortune: A pair of women search
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The Plateau: A day-by-day G.i. perspective of
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Top Gun: Tom Cruise trains to be a hot-shot
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