Some of the mystery revolves around the bizarre and inappropriate behavior of two local officers, one of whom is killed by the perpetrators, while the other cop is one of a trio of witnesses the feds interview-all of whom naturally present conflicting accounts. Julia Ormond and Bill Pullman star as FBI agents arriving at a rural police station to investigate a series of brutal murders that fit the modus operandi of thrill killers the pair have been trailing. There, gloriously, she treats him like a dog (he loves her for it!).David Lynch's daughter Jennifer, who cut her directorial eyeteeth on Boxing Helena, helms this bizarre, fitfully engaging crime drama that-like many of her dad's films-brims with eccentric performances and deliberately muddled plot points. He seizes this object like a fetishist, and uses it as bait to lure her to his house. He throws an elaborate party, invites her and is humiliated that she chooses to leave with another guest. Though Nick has a flourishing career and a beautiful, ardent fiance, he can't get Helena out of his mind. The psychology is definitely on the 1 + 1 = 2 level.
We are given to understand that he in some fashion identifies her with his late mother, who rejected him just as cruelly while she dallied with a parade of lovers. Seduced and abandoned by Helena, he's been driven not into bitterness or anger but into true dementia. When he smiles, it says KICK ME HERE on his teeth. Nick is one of your basic-issue weenie boys, self-hating, weak, cowardly, without pride or spine. Sands, a British actor who was so good long ago as an ardent romantic in "A Room With a View," has fallen on hard times ever since (he was a flying male witch in "Warlock," one of the most truly ridiculous movies ever made) and this isn't likely to redeem his career.
Nick Cavanaugh, a gifted surgeon and a very sick puppy. That particular bloke would be Julian Sands as Dr.
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