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Ambition ( 1991 ) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
99 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Scott D. Goldstein

Written By:
Lou Diamond Phillips

Actors:
Lou Diamond Phillips ..... Mitchell Osgood
Clancy Brown ..... Albert Merrick
Cecilia Peck ..... Julie
Richard Bradford ..... Jordan
Willard E. Pugh ..... Freddie
Grace Zabriskie ..... Mrs. Merrick
Katherine Armstrong ..... Roseanne
JD Cullum ..... Jack
Haing S. Ngor ..... Tatay
Mik Scriba ..... Prison Guard #1
Randy Hall ..... Male Dancer
Maria Rangel ..... Female Dancer
Robert Harvey ..... Merrick's Attorney
Teresa Bowman ..... Media Reporter #1
Rick Scarry ..... Media Reporter #2

Synopsis:

Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected by the editors. When the psychopathic killer Albert Merrik is released from prison after 15 years, Osgood believes that writing down the history of his crimes could be his breakthrough. Although he refuses to talk to him at first, Osgood follows him around and offers him a job in his book shop. To get the right impressions for his book, he feels that he has to experience Merrik psychopathic again...

Lou Diamond Phillips stars in this contrived but entertaining thriller (which he also wrote) as Mitchell Osgood, an aspiring writer who runs a Los Angeles bookstore. When a heartfelt book about his father Haing S. Ngor fails to win him a publishing deal, Osgood decides to write something more eye-catching -- a book about recently-released serial killer Albert Merrick Clancy Brown. The media beats him to it, so the ruthlessly ambitious Osgood decides to spur Merrick to commit more crimes, hiring him to work at the bookstore and playing cruel mind games in hopes of setting Merrick off. He does, but the results are quite different from what Osgood had anticipated. Phillips' performance is weak, and the screenplay is predictably bland, but the film remains worthwhile thanks to a terrific job by Brown as the killer. Brown has turned in a number of fine psycho performances, but he has rarely been better than he is here, building from understated diffidence to full-blown psychosis in expert fashion. Grace Zabriskie and Willard E. Pugh co-star with Cecilia Peck.

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