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Format: VHS
Buy.com Sku: 40091418
UPC: 720229908177
UPC 14: 00720229908177
Rating: NR
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A film by Michael Winterbottom
Eunice, a drifter, meets miriam at a service station they are immediatly drawn together, and make love at miriam's that night.Eunice hitches a ride with a trucker the next day, miriam decides to follow and discovers eunice with the truck and the drivers dead body. Eunice turns out to be a serial killer. Oh well.

"An icily comic powerhouse film!  Cosmopolitan
"A twisted British answer to Thelma and Louise!  The New ork Times
"Plummer gives her strangest, most uninhibited screen performance to date.  Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

Editor's Note
Michael Winterbottom's first theatrical feature is a wildly anarchic road movie in which two lesbians fall for each other while speeding through Northern England on a murder spree. Amanda Plummer stars as the exuberantly off-kilter Eunice and Saskia Reeves plays the obsessive Miriam, who falls under Eunice's peculiar spell when she stumbles into her gas station one unassuming afternoon looking for someone named Judith. Little does she realize that Eunice is a cold-blooded killer without any semblance of a conscience. By the time she does discover Eunice's predilection for murder, she's too head-over-heels in love with her to do the right thing and turn her in. Miriam becomes so obsessed with her new lover, that when she discovers a body in the trunk of Eunice's car, she insists they bury it quickly so that no one will find out. As they continue their journey to nowhere, Miriam delves into Eunice's tantalizing and reckless world of murder and begins to wonder if she can separate right from wrong herself. Winterbottom's off-kilter comedy features an electrifyingly insane performance from Plummer, and incorporates a soundtrack by tough girl bands that is a good compliment to the proceedings (PJ Harvey, Bjork, The Cranberries, etc.).
Technical Info

Release Information
Video Mfg Name Studio: First Run Features
Video Release Date Release Date: 6/11/2002
Video Play Time Running Time: 90 minutes
Video Release Year Original Release Date: 1995
Video CategoryId Catalog ID: 908177
Video UPC UPC: 00720229908177
Video Number of Discs Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Video Original Language Original Language: English
Video Audio Spec Available Audio Tracks: English
Video Color Spec Video: Color
Cast & Crew
Video Cast Info Amanda Plummer
Video Cast Info Des McAleer
Video Cast Info Kathy Jamieson
Video Cast Info Lisa Jane Riley
Video Cast Info Saskia Reeves
Video Cast Info Rachael Fleming - Costume Designer
Video Cast Info Michael Winterbottom - Director
Video Cast Info Seamus McGarvey - Director of Photography
Video Cast Info Trevor White - Editor
Video Cast Info Bjork - Music
Video Cast Info PJ Harvey - Music
Video Cast Info John Harle - Musical Score
Video Cast Info Julie Baines - Producer
Video Cast Info Sarah Daniel - Producer
Video Cast Info Rupert Miles - Production Designer
Video Cast Info Frank Cottrell Boyce - Writer

Memorable Quotes

"Punishment is the only thing I understand." ---- Eunice (AMANDA PLUMMER).

"He doesn't see me!" ---- Eunice (AMANDA PLUMMER), screaming at the sky, referring to God.

"Are you Judith?" ---- what Eunice (AMANDA PLUMMER) keeps asking her victims.

"I'll make you evil before you make me good." ---- Eunice (AMANDA PLUMMER), to Miriam (SASKIA REEVES).

Professional Reviews

Variety
"...Breathtakingly original....From its opening shots, BUTTERFLY KISS exudes a confidence and distinctive feel that promises something rather special..." 02/20/1995

New York Times
"...[Plummer delivers a] brave, blazing performance..." 05/03/1996 p.C19

Los Angeles Times
"...A taut work of rigor and complexity, laced with flashes of pitch-dark humor..." 06/06/1996 p.F3

Chicago Sun-Times
"...The performances have a gravity about them that is unusual in the movies..." 08/09/1996 p.31

Los Angeles Times 8 of 10
A taut work of rigor and complexity, laced with flashes of pitch-dark humor.

Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
The wounds of mental sickness, loneliness and need in Butterfly Kiss are so deep we can hardly watch. The women begin a journey across England, Eunice killing and Miriam mostly cleaning up after her, as we begin to understand how these two deeply scarred, incomplete personalities have somehow found the perfect fit. - Roger Ebert

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