Half Moon Street
by Bob Swaim
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Actor: Faith Kent, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh, Ram John Holder, Sigourney WeaverDirector: Bob Swaim
Brand: WEAVER,SIGOURNEY
Cinematographer: Peter Hannan
Writer: Bob Swaim
Editor: Richard Marden
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Producer: Geoffrey Reeve
Writer: Edward Behr
Writer: Paul Theroux
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Half Moon Street
DVD Review: A Daring Intellectual Caught up in International Intrigue
Summary: 3 Stars
Half Moon Street in London contains posh flats, many of which belong to prominent Arabs, and is situated near Piccadilly. It is close to Victoria Station, Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Circus.
Sigourney Weaver arrives in London to work for an Arab-Anglo institute. A brilliant intellectual with a doctorate at Harvard in the field of Chinese economics, having spent a good deal of time in China researching her subject, she is multi-lingual and has a sharp mind for movie details. She is able to readily recite dialogue from scores of films.
The think tank where Weaver works pays so little that she decides to do something daring to enhance her income. She goes to work for an escort service, but on independent terms. Sigourney explains that she will agree to a date at a restaurant, after which it is up to her if she will pursue matters further.
With her excellent pedigree Weaver is a natural to entertain the male economic elite from around the world in this most cosmopolitan of international cities. Her independence is revealed when she coolly tells one Japanese businessman that, despite his confident expectations, she has no desire to augment the evening's activities after dinner.
Weaver learns that the institute where she works is run by an international consortium containing, as one local investment banker tells her, the 5,000 people in international society that "really count."
On one of her eclectic evening excursions Weaver visits the flat of Michael Caine for dinner and prospective good times. A member of the House of Lords, Caine is also an international diplomat who is seeking to broker an international peace agreement between the Israeli and Arab political worlds.
The story ultimately assumes a duality of how Caine can keep the negotiations on track with Weaver caught in the midst of the intrigue. That flat on Half Moon Street that she was able to move into when the wealthy Arab who owned it said he did not need it that point perhaps will come at a stiff price after all. Time will tell.
As the intrigue continues Weaver becomes frustrated when Caine is compelled to break dates with her. When he is unable to keep an appointment in Geneva she is ready to leave him. In the process while in Geneva she has allowed another man to romance her.
In her anxiety to free herself from Caine, has Weaver somehow put herself in harm's way? How will it play out? Will she get back with Caine? Will Caine be able to broker the peace agreement despite possibly serious obstacles?
These are the points that play themselves out in the film.
Description of Half Moon Street
Professor by day. Prostitute by night. Two-time Golden GlobeĀ(r) winner* Sigourney Weaver "shows her best stuff [in this] provocative" (Los Angeles Times) and stunning sexual thriller.Co-starring two-time OscarĀ(r) winner** Michael Caine, Half Moon Street is a smoldering, suspenseful tale of passion, politics and murder that's elegant, erotic and electrifying! When the brilliant and beautiful Dr. Lauren Slaughter (Weaver) discovers she's unable to live onher meager academic salary, she decides to moonlight as a high-priced London call girl. But when she unexpectedly falls for one of her clientsa top-ranking politician (Caine)Lauren soon finds herself enmeshed in a dark world of deviance, danger and deadly intriguewhere sex will make her rich and love could get her killed. *1988: Actress (Drama), Gorillas in the Mist; 1988: Supporting Actress, Working Girl **1999: Supporting Actor: The Cider House Rules; 1986: Hannah and Her SistersBestsellers in DVD
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