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starring: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Thomsen, Ian Hartdirected by: Kaige Chen
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0027616885128
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 23862
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Red-hot Heather Graham (Boogie Nights) and Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) sizzle like never before in this steamy sexual odyssey about the addictive and deadly powers of illicit passion. Too much of a good thing can be deadly. When Alice (Graham), an American living inLondon, meets Adam (Fiennes), a handsome adventurer, she's lured out of her safe, mundane life to pursue an affair that brings her to the heights of excitement and ecstasy. But when Adam's mysteriousand violent past begins to surface, Alice investigates and learns that Adam's pastand her future may both point to murder!
Amazon.com:
It's easy to identify the biggest attraction of Killing Me Softly: two fetching actors (Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes) and lots of nudity--especially in the unrated version. It's harder to choose the bigger liability: the dialogue howlers (as Fiennes binds Graham in ropes, she says, 'Sometimes I feel like I don't know you') or the incredibly obvious solution to the big mystery. The story is an unofficial update of Hitchcock's Suspicion: a new wife wonders whether her unbelievably charismatic husband might be a murderer. The Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) turns out to be exactly the wrong director for this overheated slice of l'amour fou in London, but with the hopeless pairing of Graham and Fiennes as the passionate lovers, he didn't have much of a chance. A nicely romantic Patrick Doyle score is the only reason not to hit the Mute button and enjoy the visuals. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Average erotic thriller with a shallow heroine
Heather Graham plays Alice, a young woman from Indiana who has moved to London. She seems to have it all--a great job as a web designer and an English boyfriend who is nice, normal person. One morning she locks eyes with a mysterious stranger named Adam Tallis (Joseph Fiennes) and falls instantly in lust. She tracks him down and they have hot sex a couple of times, and Alice quickly ditches her sweet boyfriend who wanted to marry her. The English boyfriend seems like someone who really cares about ... Read More
Rating:  - top rating for this extraordinary romance-thriller
intense throughout - satisfying two audiences: looking for love/sex story, criminal/thriller fans. stunning performance by both Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. highly recommended
Rating:  - Killing Me Softly, DVD
This movie ranks at the top of one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The plot sounded interesting, but the lead actress was blank. She lacked character...it was embarrassing to watch her. Her lines were stupid...actually comical! The lead actor was quite believable; unfortuately,that was not enough to carry this movie!
Do not waste your money by purchasing this movie!
Rating: - Internationally accalimed Chinese director bombs in first Hollywood attempt!
What's happens, when multi-awarded Chinese director Chen Kai Ge, alters his name to Chen Kaige, sheds his native land and sensibility that made him world renowned for his FAREWELL, MY CONCUBINE, and comes to Hollywood to make an English thriller starring American Heather Graham and English Joseph Fiennes and Natascha MeElhone in an R to unrated sexpoitative mystery entitled KILLING ME SOFTLY????.......a disaster, that's what!!!!!
This is one horrendous, misguided film that has some of ... Read More
Rating:  - Killing me softly
I saw this movie again when i bought it, the movie is not just a love story, it is a story how we as women like excitement in our lives. I enjoyed the actors and the story line and the twist of the sister's character. Sometimes there is more to a person then what you see. This movie has it, you can't stop looking at it because you might miss something. I would recommend this movie to anyone that likes drama,
hot loves scenes and suspense.
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