Blindside (1986) ( Blind side )

Blindside (1986) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Blind side
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1986 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Paul Lynch

Written By:
Richard Beatty
George Saunders

Actors:
Harvey Keitel ..... Penfield Gruber
Lori Hallier ..... Julie
Lolita Davidovich ..... Adele
Michael Rudder ..... Freelong
Cordelia Strube ..... Dolman
Durango Coy ..... Borden
Alan Fawcett ..... Gilchrist
James Kidnie ..... Sandy
Kenneth MacGregor ..... Collinson
Sam Malkin ..... Peters
Sugith Varughese ..... Two Tone
Frenchie McFariane ..... Elvis Impersonator
Cheryl Wilson ..... Janine
Robert Ramsay Collins ..... Killer #1
Lawrence King-Phillips ..... Killer #2

Synopsis:

In Blindside, Keitel stars as Penfield Gruber, a sleazy roadside motel owner with a mysterious past as a behavioural scientist and surveillance expert. In fact, he has video cameras set up everywhere around the motel premises, so he can keep track of the comings and goings of his shady clientele, including Freelong (Michael Rudder), a reckless young thug who is hiding out after hijacking a heroin shipment from the local drug cartel. But what Freelong doesn't know is that the vicious drug gang is on to him, and they approach Gruber to spy on Freelong wile he's staying there. With little choice in the matter, Gruber places a pinhole microphone in the empty room beside Freelong's. While he's setting things up, however, he overhears Gilchrist (Alan Fawcett) and his mistress Julie (Lori Hallier) whispering the details of a murder plot in the other adjacent unit. Gruber, already taken with Julie's beauty the few times he has glimpsed her on his security cams, is intrigued by what he's stumbled on to, especially when he taps a phone call between Gilchrist and Julie's husband and realizes that it's all a double-cross: Gilchrist has actually been hired to kill the girl. But that's just one of the film's many reversals, as Gruber discovers when he gives Julie the incriminating tape. Not only are Freelong and Gilchrist partners in crime, but they're also both connected to Julie and her rich husband. As the pieces begin to fall together, Gruber's past finally comes back to haunt him.

The sublimely derivative Blindside stirs up a modicum of tension. The principal character is a onetime surveillance expert, who after purchasing a motel can't resist the temptation of spying on his guests. No, there's no shower stabbing here, but there isa brutal murder. Before long, our peeping-tom protagonist is up to his chin in drug-traffic intrigue. As the voyeuristic hero, Harvey Keitel is the most recognizable performer in Blindside; with the exception of the always welcome Lolita.

Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected double-crosser. While watching the man, Gruber overhears a murder plot.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 05 November, 2012.