Malice (1993) ( Bodily Harm )

Malice (1993) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Bodily Harm
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Harold Becker

Written By:
Aaron Sorkin
Jonas McCord

Actors:
Alec Baldwin ..... Dr. Jed Hill
Nicole Kidman ..... Tracy Kennsinger
Bill Pullman ..... Andy Safian
Bebe Neuwirth ..... Det. Dana Harris
George C. Scott ..... Dr. Martin Kessler
Anne Bancroft ..... Mrs. Kennsinger
Peter Gallagher ..... Atty. Dennis Riley
Josef Sommer ..... Atty. Lester Adams
Tobin Bell ..... Earl Leemus
William Duff-Griffin ..... Dr. George Sullivan
Debrah Farentino ..... Nurse Tanya
Gwyneth Paltrow ..... Paula Bell
David Bowe ..... Dr. Matthew Robertson
Diana Bellamy ..... Ms. Worthington
Michael Hatt ..... Neighbor Boy

Synopsis:

Alec Baldwin stars in this thriller as Dr. Jed Hill, a brilliant young trauma specialist who begins to believe he can do no wrong after he saves the life of a patient given up for dead by another doctor. Jed runs into an old classmate, Andy Safian (Bill Pullman), who is now a college dean. Andy invites Jed to stay with him in the attic bedroom of a house he is renovating with his wife Tracy (Nicole Kidman). Tracy takes a dislike to Jed, whom she thinks is a psychotic egomaniac. In the mean time, Andy has to deal with a serial killer on the loose among the campus dorms. While Andy is helping belligerent law enforcement officials with the murder investigation and Jed is drinking straight shots at the local saloon, Tracy begins to have abdominal pains and is rushed to the emergency room. Jed comes directly from the bar and slices her open, removing more from her body cavity than he should. The allegations fly fast and furious between Tracy, Andy, and Jed.

Andy (Bill Pullman) and Tracy Safian (Nicole Kidman) are a happily married couple living in a Victorian house that they are restoring in the Western Massachusetts. He is the Associate Dean at the local college, while his wife teaches art to children. When a student is attacked in her home by what appears to be a serial rapist, her life is saved by Dr. Jed Hill (Alec Baldwin), a brilliant surgeon who has recently arrived at the area hospital. Andy recognizes Jed from high school and invites him to rent the third floor of their home in order to finance the new plumbing. With his propensity to bring home sexual partners and to party late into the night, he quickly proves himself to be a less-than-ideal tenant. When student Paula Bell (Gwyneth Paltrow) is attacked and killed, Andy finds her body in the garden behind her home, prompting Andy's friend, Detective Dana Harris (Bebe Neuwirth), to view him as a possible suspect. While at the police station delivering a semen sample, Andy learns his wife has been hospitalized and is being operated on by Jed. In removing one of Tracy's ovaries, which has ruptured due to a cyst, Jed discovers Tracy is pregnant, but the stress of the procedure causes the fetus to abort. Near the end of the surgery, another doctor notices that her other ovary is torsed and appears necrotic. Jed talks to Andy, who has been in the waiting room, and advises him to agree to the removal of Tracy's second ovary, rather than risk her life; Andy painfully agrees, since this will mean that Tracy can never have children. Back in surgery, Jed overrules the protests of the other doctors that the ovary might still be healthy and removes it. When Jed later is told the second ovary was in fact healthy, he decides that, rather than bury the report, he will face the consequences of his actions...

A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a 'know all' doctor.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 August, 2021.