Summaries

Eve tells her shrink, Ann, about kinky sex with a man. Ann learns that it's the same man, she's been seeing lately. Eve finds out and explodes. A murder follows.

A psychiatrist (Sciorra) is helping a neurotic art gallery owner who has a submissive and very satisfying sexual relationship with her new lover, a domineering man with a violent streak. An airline pilot that the psychiatrist recently started dating turns out to be having an affair with the patient. When someone is murdered, the psychiatrist must decide whether the lover is a homicidal maniac or someone who loves her. Her mentor and his wife attempt to help her, but things aren't what they seem.—Ed Sutton <[email protected]>

In New York, the psychiatrist Ann Hecker has her office in the Fifth Avenue and is treating the artist John Castillo, who has violent sexual desires, and the gallery owner Eve Abergray, who loves to make kinky sex with her lover. Her best friends are the lawyer Sarah Green and her husband Leo Green, who was a former professor and mentor of Ann and now is Ann's psychoanalyst. When Ann meets the pilot Doug McDowell, she dates him and falls in love with him. But soon she learns that Doug is the mysterious lover of Eve. When she discover Ann's affair with Doug, Eve goes haywire, breaks into Ann's office and steals several tapes of her clients. Ann tells to Sarah and Leo and they hire a lawyer to Ann. She decides to meet Eve to recover her tapes and when Ann arrives at Eve's house, she finds her client hanged and dead. Now the abusive NYPD detective Larry Morgenstern investigate the murder case and suspects of Doug and John.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Details

Keywords
  • psychopathic killer
  • woman in jeopardy
  • insanity
  • obsessive love
  • sexual fantasy
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Mystery
  • Drama
Release date Aug 6, 1992
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations 500 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Production companies Paramount Pictures Martin Bregman Productions Intrada

Box office

Budget $18000000
Gross US & Canada $11124511
Opening weekend US & Canada $3177158
Gross worldwide $11124511

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 43m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

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