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Reviewed by Back2Bath 4 / 10

Nice Face, Shame About the Acting

I just saw this film for the first time, and I must agree with the previous reviewer - Alec's l'il bro was seriously miscast in the role of a remorseless murderer! While cute during the first 27.8 seconds of the movie, Billy's Basset Hound StaresT grew a little - no, make that extremely - tiresome in very short order. His good looks didn't make up for the fact that he couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, something the producers might have considered when they were looking for someone to play the role of a sociopath.The only actor worth watching here was Danny Aiello; in fact most of those who played cops did so with amazing credibility. The interrogation scenes were a joy to watch and actually made you believe that this is what it must really be like (unlike the usual TV in-your-face all-anger-all-the-time TV cop shows).In the end, though, I was left with the feeling that if a good actor had played the lead it may have been a better film.

Reviewed by Varlaam 6 / 10

She's awkward! She's gauche! She's Lara Flynn Boyle!

She (Boyle) is a nice, pretty girl but needs a little polish; he (Billy Baldwin) wears shirts by Ralph Lauren. You can see there's trouble a-brewing.This movie is probably, unfortunately, of greatest interest for The World of Hibernia magazine cover girl Boyle before she developed her familiar sexy vamp persona. In fact, she seems like an older version of some of those early hair-twisting Winona Ryder characters. Her part is really only of newcomer size. That's sad to say since Boyle's Before and After are so different from one another.As for Baldwin, he plays a plausible prep perp. Sandra Bullock has rather a small part, as the girl with the ankh earring. Not much of a characterization there.This crime story plays much like a lesser, and fairly routine, episode of "Law & Order", with Danny Aiello standing in for Jerry Orbach and Joanna Kerns doing a blonder version of Michael Moriarty.Aiello's experienced flatfoot is the central character. The script tries to humanize him, not entirely successfully, by showing his "pedagogic" side I'll call it. That gives him a certain degree of warmth, but it's really up to Aiello to lend the role his usual identifiability.I think it all comes down to how much you like Danny Aiello. It happens I do, but don't consider that a recommendation.

Reviewed by ZeddaZogenau 6 / 10

True Case Victims with Lara FLYNN BOYLE and William BALDWIN

US television drama based on a true crime case starring Lara Flynn Boyle and William BaldwinThis television film, directed by John Herzfeld, first aired on ABC in September 1989. It is based on the actual murder of young Jennifer Levin on August 26, 1986 in New York's Central Park, which was known at the time and even after the television film was broadcast as "The Preppie Murder" (based on a preparatory school as preparation for university studies). Attended by both the victim and the perpetrator) attracted great media attention.Jennifer (Lara Flynn Boyle), a young girl from a good New York family, meets the extremely attractive Robert Chambers (William Baldwin) in a hip bar in Manhattan, falls in love with the great Hech and spends the night with him. The next day, Robert doesn't want to know anything about her anymore. A loud argument breaks out. At dawn the next day, Jennifer's body is found in Central Park, with significant injuries. Robert quickly becomes a target of the police and finally admits to being involved in Jennifer's killing. But here's the thing: He claims that he accidentally killed Jennifer as a result of violent sexual practices ("rough sex") in which he himself was in danger of becoming Jennifer's victim. What is starting now is a media tornado without equal. This story, with its very young and beautiful participants, is a real hit for the New York newspapers. In court, a sleazy lawyer named Jack Litman (as always convincing: Knots Landing star William Devane) ensures that Jennifer Levin's sex life is exploited and that the murder victim supposedly becomes the perpetrator.This story actually happened and didn't end with the process depicted in the film. The first part of the film is definitely convincing. William Baldwin and Lara Flynn Boyle fit their roles perfectly as spoiled brats who seem to have everything thrown at them. William Baldwin is particularly impressive as a dazzling-looking but somehow disturbingly crazy little boy. In the second part of the film, the court hearing, everything no longer fits together. On the one hand, the aim is to criticize the way the judiciary and the media have dealt with this bizarre case, but on the other hand, there is a lot of speculation regarding Jennifer Levin's alleged preference for certain sexual practices.A very strange television film that quite and rightly paid off for the future careers of its main actors. The talented Lara Flynn Boyle was part of David Lynch's television series "Twin Peaks" a year later, and the enviably well-built William Baldwin made it in "Sliver" (1993) even becomes Sharon Stone's super sexy lover (and that's also fully justified). It should also be mentioned that the great music comes from Chris Isaak, who would become world famous a year later with "The Wicked Game" for "Wild At Heart" by David Lynch. The later ACADEMY AWARD winner Sandra Bullock can also be seen in a small role.With a few caveats, it's definitely worth seeing!

The Preppie Murder

1989

Crime / Drama

The Preppie Murder

1989

Crime / Drama

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Nice Face, Shame About the Acting

She's awkward! She's gauche! She's Lara Flynn Boyle!

True Case Victims with Lara FLYNN BOYLE and William BALDWIN

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