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Judas Kiss (1998) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Sebastian Gutierrez

Written By:
Sebastian Gutierrez

Actors:
Carla Gugino ..... Coco Chavez
Simon Baker ..... Junior Armstrong (as Simon Baker-Denny)
Emma Thompson ..... FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
Alan Rickman ..... Detective David Friedman
Gil Bellows ..... Lizard Browning
Til Schweiger ..... Ruben Rubenbauer
Hal Holbrook ..... Senator Rupert Hornbeck
Philip Baker Hall ..... Pobby Malavero
Joey Slotnick ..... Walters
Greg Wise ..... Ben Dyson
Lisa Eichhorn ..... Mary-Ellen Floyd
Richard Riehle ..... Security Guard
Beverly Hotsprings ..... Space Vixen
Roscoe Lee Browne ..... Chief Bleeker
Tom Hodges ..... Jake

Synopsis:

Young lovers and small-time New Orleans scammers Coco Chavez (Carla Gugino) and Junior Armstrong (Simon Baker-Denny) move up a few rungs when they kidnap wealthy computer mogul Ben Dyson (Greg Wise) in Sebastian Gutierrez's neo-noir. During the crime, Coco kills Dyson's girlfriend, Patty (Beverly Penberthy), wife of Senator Rupert Hornbeck (Hal Holbrook). Assigned to the case are FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins (Emma Thompson) and Police Lt. David Friedman (Alan Rickman). When Hornbeck threatens Friedman instead of assisting him, the detective suspects that this is no ordinary kidnapping for ransom, and he does his own investigation. A conscience-stricken Coco realizes that she may have been set up to kill Patty, and she, too, takes matters into her own hands. A fairly complex tale of betrayal and corruption, Judas Kiss also spoofs noir conventions -- for instance, agent Hawkins is reading Jim Thompson's crime novel The Killer Inside Me, and he discusses the writer's works with Friedman during lulls in the action.

A woman and her lover, who has made a living by running sex scams at hotels, decide to enter the big time by kidnapping a computer company owner and demanding $4 million ransom. The two hire a tech wizard and a muscle man, who amuses himself by playing Russian roulette. Things go awry during the kidnapping when a neighbor is killed, who turns out to be the wife of a powerful senator. As things develop, it turns out that the murder may not have been as accidental as it originally appeared. Slowly things unveil to not to be everything that was originally thought.

Crime drama. A complicated plot centres on the kidnapping of the head of a computer company. Unfortunately for the kidnappers, the woman they happen to shoot in the course of the kidnapping is the wife of a powerful senator - attracting the attentions of the FBI among others.

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