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Eye of the Beholder

starring: Ashley Judd, Ewan McGregor

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767851145
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767851145
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 23, 2000
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 38947
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1999



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Product Description:
Startling journey into obsession the story of an intelligence agent so taken with a beautiful killer he cannot bear to apprehend her. Set in the surreal world of a high-tech voyeur the tale follows him across the country as he embarks on a desperate quest for this enigmatic femme fatale. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Ashley Judd Jason Priestly Run time: 114 minutes Rating: R Director: Stephan Elliott

Amazon.com:
This problematic thriller boasts several inspired elements, especially intelligent, committed performances by leads Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd, both of whom have become hot commodities. Fans should definitely investigate their incisive work here, even if McGregor and Judd's talents are ultimately cast into a lost cause.

Judd plays a black-widow serial murderer named Joanna, who is systematically seducing and killing men who, in one way or another, are outside the ordinary. (Among her victims is a blind mulimillionaire, played by Patrick Bergin, and a nasty loser portrayed, surprisingly, by Jason Priestley.) McGregor is on board as a British intelligence agent who happens to be following her. Referred to as 'the Eye,' McGregor's operative is a haunted man abandoned years before by his wife and daughter. His isolation is such that he holds imaginary conversations with the latter, and she advises him to take pity on Joanna and protect her even as she carries on with her monstrous mission.

That's precisely what he does, at a distance, ushering in comparisons to Hitchcock's classics about voyeurism and obsession, particularly Vertigo and Rear Window. (Allusions to Francis Coppola's The Conversation are unavoidable as well.) But despite the great material (the 1980 source novel by Marc Behm was highly praised by The New York Times) and a fascinating cast (including Geneviève Bujold and k.d. lang), Eye of the Beholder bogs down in Stephan Elliott's often thoughtless, obvious direction. Elliott (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) grinds down several members of the cast by insisting on dreary, one-note performances, and he makes a long movie seem even longer by telegraphing story twists and other developments long before they happen. Justice would be served if one could extract Judd and McGregor's appearances here and graft them onto a better movie, but so it goes. --Tom Keogh



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - 1 star out of 4
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This depressingly-bad thriller spins its wheels in voyeuristic territory ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Where's the rest of the movie?
You'll find yourself asking this when this movie unexpectedly just "ends". I'm no movie cynic and I can ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Eye of the Beholder
This arrived very fast. I was really surprised. What can I say about this movie, it is spellbinding. You ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - correction
i just want to make a correction, in the editorial Tom Keogh states that the blind millionaire is one of ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - MUST HAVE!
love ewan and this movie does put you on the edge of your seat

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