Psychiatrist Dr. Lila Colleti is divorcing her husband and is devastated when he wins custody of their two little girls, whom he gets largely because Lila's job, being a psychiatrist for the criminally insane at the local prison, is a potentially dangerous one that forces her to keep long, erratic hours. When one of Lila's patients, Ed Baikman, is released into a half-way house, he decides under the delusional influence of his psychosis to help her out by murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend, and then threatening to tell the cops they'd planned it together when she refuses to become romantically involved with him. Though Lila's lover, police detective Macy Kobacek, stands by her loyally, Baikman does such an ingenious job of implicating Lila in the crime that even Macy begins to have his doubts about Lila's innocence
Acting
Gina Gershon commits to ridiculous material with absolute gravity
Direction
Evelyn Purcell's woman-directed gaze on female professional peril
Director
Evelyn Purcell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Evelyn Purcell's final feature; she'd previously directed HBO's 'The Josephine Baker Story' and spent her career fighting for women behind the camera.
Released in the post-'Fatal Attraction' era of erotic thrillers, this arrived as the genre was dying—note how it can't decide between prestige drama and exploitation.
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