Consenting Adults
by Alan J. Pakula
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Actor: Forest Whitaker, Kevin Kline, Kevin Spacey, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Rebecca MillerDirector: Alan J. Pakula
Brand: Walt Disney Video
Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Producer: David Permut
Producer: Katie Jacobs
Producer: Pieter Jan Brugge
Writer: Matthew Chapman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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- Academy Award(R)-winner Kevin Kline (1988 Best Supporting Actor -- A FISH CALLED WANDA) and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (A PERFECT STORM) heat up the screen in CONSENTING ADULTS, the spine-tingling sexy thriller that seduced audiences and critics alike. When two couples living next door to each other grow too close, one of the husbands risks everything for a passion he can't resist -- his neig
DVD Reviews of Consenting Adults
DVD Review: PUTRID, VACUOUS & INANE... AND THAT'S JUST DESCRIBING THE WRITER
Summary: 1 Stars
MATTHEW CHAPMAN.
I want you to remember this name. Sear it into your memory. Because this guy should be arrested, tried and convicted for perpetrating a heinous crime: Wasting 99 precious minutes of anyone's time who sits through this vapid clunker.
Matthew Chapman wrote this script. Matthew Chapman is a very bad writer.
Just as convicted PC virus authors are legally restrained from owning or operating a computer, so while on this Earth should the same fate Matthew Chapman suffer. When he passes from this life, he should be made to watch this dreck of a movie, repeatedly, start to finish, as eternal punishment.
I have watched thousands, probably tens of thousands of films in my lifetime. I can never remember a film where my emotions were so affected during the progression of the movie. I went from amusement to disbelief, disbelief to incredulity, incredulity to anger, then anger to enraged. Why?
Because Matthew Chapman, Hollywood hack that he is, wasted 99 minutes of my life with a script so preposterous, nonsensical and idiotic that I actually felt insulted after having seen it.
This film was produced in 1992. I imagine the studio must have been pouring through piles of old scripts, searching for something similar to capitalize on the high-profile "Basic Instinct", which came out the same year.
You could compare Chapman's efforts to "Basic" writer Joe Eszterhaus, who had his own well-deserved trash-notoriety in the 90's, but that would actually be insulting Eszterhaus. And THAT is an accomplishment in and of itself.
There is a progression of events which transpire in the production of every film. The chain starts with a writer and a script. When Matthew Chapman finished the last page of this piece of refuse, did he feel like he had accomplished something? Did he congratulate himself, not realizing he had just completed one of the worst movie scripts of the 1990's?
And then you have to wonder about the rest of the chain. If I were any of the principles in this atrocity, I would have fired any representation that advised me to be involved with it. What did an accomplished director like the late Alan Pakula, and seasoned actors such as Kevin Kline, Kevin Spacey and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, see in this abortion?
You'd think Chapman wouldn't be able to get near the big screen again, but he authored two other scripts that were made into equally bad films: "The Color Of Night" (1994) and "What's The Worst That Can Happen" (2001).
Three films in ten years; what does this guy do a for a day job? It must be something connected with waste management, because Matthew Chapman certainly seems to be obsessed with the volume production of garbage.
If you ever pay to see a film in a theater, and the name MATTHEW CHAPMAN shows up in the opening credits, run for the lobby with your ticket stub and demand your money back.
Description of Consenting Adults
Academy Award(R)-winner Kevin Kline (1988 Best Supporting Actor -- A FISH CALLED WANDA) and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (A PERFECT STORM) heat up the screen in CONSENTING ADULTS, the spine-tingling sexy thriller that seduced audiences and critics alike. When two couples living next door to each other grow too close, one of the husbands risks everything for a passion he can't resist -- his neighbor's wife. His temptation traps the foursome in a shocking web of betrayal and murder. And now accused of a crime he didn't commit, he must race against time to save his family from a shocking fate. Directed by master of suspense Alan J. Pakula (PRESUMED INNOCENT), this erotic thriller twists and turns as tension builds to a sensational heart-stopping climax.Bestsellers in DVD
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