Dangerous Intentions

The horror of this most unwanted situation is the absolute hopelessness of the victim's case when she finds herself utterly powerless. When a man or husband turns off to a road of brutality, the question is, whether it is at all possible to make him turn right again. Unfortunately an overwhelming lot of cases refute that possibility. It becomes like an addiction, he just has to turn on again in that fury and go berserk again and again, until society has had enough and has to stop him. The wife is helpless, her awareness of it just goes from bad to worse all the way, the only way through is to endure it, and here at least she has the great opportunity to state her case at court, which is the highlight of the film - the court wants to charge her for contempt of court, but her case is too strong, too convincing, too real, for anyone to be able to raise any objection. And alas, her case proves too real and true, as she is not the only one whose husband tries to murder her - there are three million American women being abused by their partners on a daily basis, resulting in three deaths per day. This social problem is more than just outrageous.

I enjoyed the film overall. The subject of the film was absorbing. Each aspect of the abuse was spot on and very thoughtfully done.

The acting was pretty bad, I think they deliberately act this way for this type of movie. This didn't bother me too much. It's well worth a watch.

There's a constant wind noise through most of the movie. This can be caused by failure to use a device called a "dead cat" (or "dead kitten" for a small one). This is a furry cover for the microphone that slows the wind before it hits the microphone and makes noise.

TV movie. Donna Mills especially is very unconvincing - typical soap actress. Praise to Corbin Bernsen as the psychopath. The film plays like a 'been there done that' movie.

I struggled to watch this movie because the sound is so awful. There's a loud wind noise throughout that was driving me insane! It's a shame as I enjoyed it otherwise, but I could never watch it ever again due to the sound issues. How could they finalise the movie without realising how bad it really is? It's very odd. The acting isn't great, but not the worst I've ever seen. I've seen this kind of storyline many times before, but I thought it was well written and believable. I really wish they could've reshot it, but I guess that would've cost too much money. If you can manage to handle the awful wind noise overshadowing it, then it's worth a watch. If you're easily irritated by background noises, maybe give it a miss.