Eiskalte Leidenschaft (1992)

Eiskalte Leidenschaft: Directed by Phil Joanou. With Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts. A psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens to destroy them both.

“I just watched this movie again, after having seen it twice before in 1996-97. It has held up pretty well. It steals a lot from Hitchcock (the u0026quot;I had the dream againu0026quot; key phrase from u0026quot;Rebeccau0026quot;, the superficial psychoanalysis from u0026quot;Marnieu0026quot;, the setting of the climax from u0026quot;Vertigou0026quot;), but Phil Joanouu0026#39;s direction is farly static – until the last 20 minutes. The two leads, Gere and Basinger, do a solid but routine job in their roles; itu0026#39;s the secondary characters who give this film a life of its own: Eric Roberts (an outstanding performance) as the edgy husband, Uma Thurman as the patient (whose character is the only one who remains an enigma right to the end), the detective who keeps making insinuations, Gereu0026#39;s colleague who gets panicky when he has to testify, etc. If nothing else, Joanou shows a talent for allowing his actors to do their stuff. (**1/2)”