| | | In a world where love isn't always safe, trust can be deadly.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, English, Korean, Subtitled
Dr. Sarah Taylor (Rebecca De Mornay, Risky Business) is a criminal psychologist with a brilliant incisive mind. She is capable of dissecting the fabrications of accused serial killer Max Cheski (Harry Dean Stanton, Wild at Heart), who is attempting to avoid a murder trial through an insanity plea. While shopping for groceries, Sarah meets a stranger, the charming, enigmatic Tony Ramirez (Antonio Banderas, The Mask of Zorro), whose fiery combination of innocence and danger succeeds in breaking through Sarah's emotional walls. She begins a passionate affair with Tony, an experience that is both exhilarating and frightening to someone as controlled as Sarah. As a new life unfolds for her, a series of increasingly disturbing events threaten to destroy it. Someone has left dead flowers on her doorstep and frightening messages on her answering machine. Then someone kills her beloved cat. Sarah is terrified. Who can she trust? Her mysterious new boyfriend, Tony? Her devious patient, Cheski, who has been released from prison due to a lack of evidence? Her possessive next-door neighbor, Cliff (Dennis Miller, The Net)? Or even her own estranged father, Henry (Len Cariou, The Four Seasons)?
"Perfect... mysterious and sexy." Stephen Hunter, The Baltimore Sun
"A taut, tight little thriller." Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee
Editor's Note
A shy, distant psychologist is in for more than she bargained for when she allows herself to fall in love with a handsome, possibly lethal stranger in this erotic thriller.
Plot Summary
Sarah Taylor is a repressed criminal psychologist who meets a mysterious hunk named Tony Ramirez in the supermarket. Although she's slightly wary of her new friend, Sarah gives in to her libido, and the two begin a lust-filled, bed-shaking relationship.| But when strange and spooky things begin to happen to her, Sarah suspects Tony is behind the weird events, and hires a detective to follow him. What the private eye discovers leaves Sarah unsettled: Tony has been doing some serious research on her, even going to her hometown for information. What exactly is Tony Ramirez up to? And will Sarah live long enough to find out?
| Features | Dolby 2 Channel and 5.1 | | English Subtitles | | Widescreen Version | | Full-screen Version | | Talent & Filmographies | | Spanish Language Version | | Portuguese Language Version | | Full-screen Format | | Desperado Trailer | | Philadelphia Trailer | | English Language Version | | Korean Subtitles | | Thai Subtitles | | The Mask Of Zorro Trailer | | Spanish Subtitles | | Portguese Subtitles | | Chinese Subtitles |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 3/1/2005 |
| Running Time: 86 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1995 | | Catalog ID: 11809 | | UPC: 00043396118096 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...Entertaining....De Mornay gives an intense, affecting [performance]....Stanton is perfect..." 10/23/1995Washington Post 0 of 10
What if your mom told you never to talk to strangers and the stranger was Antonio Banderas? What would you do? What would Mom do? You can see that problem confronting Rebecca De Mornay as Sarah Taylor, the criminal psychologist heroine of Peter Hall's engaging thriller Never Talk to Strangers.... Though the script--by Lewis Green and Jordan Rush--is sloppy and conventional, and the thriller plot consists primarily of infuriating red herrings, these two ravishing stars do manage to generate some real intensity together, both in bed and out... Hall is interested in delivering the simple, straightforward pleasures of a thriller. And even with its feeble script, that's pretty much what Strangers accomplishes. As always, Banderas seduces the camera as easily as [his character] woos the well-defended doctor. And De Mornay does an affecting job of suggesting the tiny fissures of mental damage underneath the mask of professional imperviousness. As a director, Hall--who is legendary in England for his theater work--mostly gets out of the way. He can't triumph over the problems in the script, or tie up all the loose ends, but his brisk, competent approach does minimize the effects of these flaws. But your mother was right--you should never never never talk to strangers. Okay, just this once. - Hal Hinson
San Francisco Chronicle 0 of 10
Never Talk to Strangers, a new thriller with mean edges, pushes the margins of plausibility. But it's mysterious and sexy enough to keep tension alive... In spite of its loose-ends plot, the film crackles with deft, fleshy performances by top-billed Rebecca De Mornay (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) as a tersely brilliant criminal psychologist, and Antonio Banderas as the charming but quick-tempered stranger who few women would have the courage to date, especially at "his place.Ó ...De Mornay is filled with sexual electricity in this thriller that delves into stalking. Banderas (Assassins, Desperado) is a passionate Latino type in the film, set in New York City, but he doesn't push it beyond the believable. - Peter Stack
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