This 35mm presentation, which also screens on November 19th, is part of the 'Can You Trust Her?' season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
A knockout thriller that succeeds brilliantly at just about everything Scorsese's Cape Fear didn't. It's another revenge plot in which the villain (Rebecca De Mornay) attempts to destroy a family (Annabella Sciorra, Matt McCoy, Madeline Zima) from within, but there's no pretentious art agenda on the filmmakers' minds; they merely work the genre for all it's worth, which proves in this case to be plenty: the suspense is masterfully controlled, and the story, which makes effective use of Seattle locations, builds to a terrifying climax. Curtis Hanson's direction and Amanda Silver's screenplay are both models of no-flab craft and intelligence, and all the actors (who also include Ernie Hudson and Julianne Moore) are believable from the first frame to the last (1991).
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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