The read
Audiences rate it 31 points higher than critics do. Most of the 237 1990s mystery movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.
Ratings
IMDb5.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes23%
Audiences rate it 31 points higher than critics do.
331 audience votes
Key crew
- Randy EdelmanOriginal Music Composer
- Don RoosScreenplay
- Jeremiah S. ChechikDirector
Cast
- Sharon StoneNicole Horner
- Isabelle AdjaniMia Baran
- Chazz PalminteriGuy Baran
- Kathy BatesDet. Shirley Vogel
- Spalding GraySimon Veatch
- Shirley KnightEdie Danziger
- Allen GarfieldLeo Katzman
- Adam Hann-ByrdErik Pretzer
- Donal LogueVideo Photographer #1
- Diana BellamyMs. Vawze
- J.J. AbramsVideo Photographer #2
- O'Neal ComptonIrv Danziger
Stills
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Themes
husband wife relationshipviolent husbandromantic rivalryplan gone wrongconspiracymistressextramarital affairheart conditionboys' schoolabusive husbandsadistic husbandunfaithful husband