Pretty When You Cry

Yes usually you'd call it Murder Mystery. In this case this is a mystery - well not so much the fact it got made, but the fact that you have Sam Elliott in it. You know a movie hasn't aged well when the website just goes away. On the plus side I guess: someone can get the rights for the title of the movie now. Though I wouldn't know why (except maybe to be "romantic" with your significant other? I'm just spitballing and guessing here).

All other things aside and taking into account that the director is a great cinematographer, he either took a bad deal or the script sounded way better than the end result we get. Now you can see what the intention was. Thriller with some social criticism and all that. Unfortunately having someone like Jamie Kennedy and the female newcomer in the lead role did not serve the movie or the plot a lot - quite the opposite. So while there may or may not be surprises ahead (and don't bother trying to make sense of certain things that just don't make sense) - overall this is forgettable

I got roped into seeing this at a screening on 2nd Avenue. Boy did it stink. Bear in mind i saw this a year ago, and just came across the name, so i am now writing the review and voted.

Seems the writer(s) laid down the best ideas of many movies. Pulp fiction time shifting, 9.5 weeks erotiscim, etc etc. And then tried to put together a movie. But it doesn't work. Sorry I cant remember all the films they ripped off... but i wrote it down on the cards for the producers. But it was a laundry list. And very blatantly ripped off, not 'homaged' to.

(2001) Seduced: Pretty When You Cry THRILLER

Straight to rental, starring Jamie Kennedy as Albert Straka, becoming infatuated with club owner Frank Carreni's (Michael Cavalieri who's also credited as Associate producer) wife, Sara Carreni (Carlton Elizabeth). Much of the movie shows him explaining his story to homicide detective, Lukas Black (Sam Elliot). Inspired by other movies such as "The Last Seduction" to "Basic Instinct" and many other movies about females instructing people what to do blah, blah, blah. 1 star for the twist even though the overall movie is uninteresting and inconsistent.

This film is so film noir that it's difficult to see. There is more black than color in most shots. Most of the time it's difficult to figure out what is supposed to be happening. Sam Elliot is brilliant as usual but his time was wasted in this one given given the really crummy cinematography and editing. While the come on for this movie is sexual explicitness the version I saw, which was distributed in Canada, had none. About all the film could muster was in that department was some rather tame S & M and sounds of sex. That's sounds - not view of. I felt ripped off after buying the DVD for an extremely reasonable amount of money, i.e. cheap. With the exception of Elliot's performance watching this movie is a waste of time.

Schlemiel falls in love with screwed-up junkie slut and gets involved with murder. The story unfolds in flashback. If you can't figure out what part Sam Elliott's character has in all this, you must have gotten an F in Plotting 102. A (very) little bit of NYPD BLUE type nudity for those who care, but this is no erotic thriller by any stretch.

Script is awful (writer is also producer -- it always pays to bring the ball), but performances would probably be OK in a high school play with a lot of bondage sex, cursing, sexual violence, and drug use. (The 12-stringer doesn't object to any of those except when they're handled as poorly as they are here.) Femme lead Carlton Elizabeth looks like a model and tries hard with what there is. It's not her fault that she's styled and shot throughout as if she's badly in need of a) a bath, b) a meal, and c) an implant reset.

Grimy, shot-in-the-dark film may look better on big screen, but I've only seen it on HBO in tv ratio and was reaching for a flashlight by the second reel. Aggressively unappealing characters and who-cares plot torpedo this one quickly. Not likely to be on anyone's resumé this time next year, but a sure bet to run on HBO as often as they carry SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE.

On a scale of 1-10, 1 from the 12-stringer, but I still think there should be a 0 category.