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Cleopatra's Second Husband

EMAILPRINTIndican Pictures

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Jon Reiss

Directed by: Jon Reiss

Release Date:
Theatrical: October 13, 2000
DVD: July 30, 2002

Running Time: 92 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for sexual themes, violence, language

Starring Paul Hipp, Boyd Kestner, Bitty Schram, and Radha Mitchell

This psychological thriller focuses on the twisted love story of a young couple whose marriage has lost its passion and their interaction with an another couple who infiltrates their lives.

What The Critics Said

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90

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

A diabolically clever psychological suspense movie.

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67

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

Worth a look.

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63

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Laced with a venomous wit, and turning progressively creepier as it unfolds, writer-director Jon Reiss' movie offers a black-humored study of suppressed rage, sexual gamesmanship, domination and subordination.

60

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Things take an unexpected turn into far grimmer territory when the wormy Robert finally turns.

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50

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Well acted, but it doesn't enrich its metaphor beyond giving an old story a sour contemporary resonance.

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50

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

This watchable 1998 psychothriller deflects its cliches with canted angles, metonymic cropping, and a creeping pace, making it as much a parsing of "Twilight Zone"-brand irony as an example of it.

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50

San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego

A weakly performed rehash of master-slave role-reversal tales.

50

New York Post Lou Lumenick

One of those potentially interesting movies that takes its sweet time getting to the point - by which time many audience members will likely have bailed out or dozed off.

50

Village Voice Mark Holcomb

An engagingly grim psychological thriller.

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25

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Since there's no suspense whatsoever, we're simply stuck with awful people doing awful things to each other.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

It's a bitter pill to swallow, featuring a quartet of unsympathetic characters and an unrelenting air of misanthropy.

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20

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

Reiss guides the film with a firm hand, ratcheting up the tension and ably guiding his actors. It's his protagonists that undo the film, making it a chore to sit through.

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What Our Users Said

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