Style: Suspense
Director: Alan Shapiro
Starring: Cary Elwes, Alicia Silverstone, Kurtwood Smith
Working Time: 89 minutes
Synopsis: Investigative reporter Nick (Cary Elwes) accepts a brand new place working for {a magazine} in Seattle (however filmed in Vancouver, Canada). In a tony neighbourhood, he rents the visitor home of rich couple Cliff and Liv (Kurtwood Smith and Gwynyth Walsh). Their precocious 14-year-old daughter Adrian (Alicia Silverstone) is regularly left house alone, and develops a severe crush on Nick. His preliminary ineptitude encourages her habits, however when Nick befriends work colleague Amy (Jennifer Rubin), Adrian’s obsessive malevolence is triggered.
What Works Properly: Adrian is wise past her years, manipulative, and emerges as a psychopath. Alicia Silverstone (making her debut) simply marginally overemotes as she captivates the display screen with a mix of seductive flirtation and evil narcissism.
What Does Not Work As Properly: The remainder of the film doesn’t match the antagonist’s potential. The mishaps turn into more and more outlandish as Adrian develops far-fetched talents to unleash wickedness on all her foes. Worse nonetheless is Nick’s penchant for self-destruction by selecting the worst doable possibility at each flip (together with skulking round Adrian’s bed room and voyeuristically hiding in her closet), and his lack of ability to extricate himself from a clearly worsening scenario (like, for instance, by shifting).
Key Quote:
Adrian (sarcastically): God, Amy… After I develop up I hope I may be simply as sensible as you.
Amy: Adrian, go play.
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