Chillihead1 Important history, amazing soundtrack, brilliant actors. What's not to like.

pvn9 This is an excellent movie on the political scandal that hit UK in 1960s. No wonder so many British actors rejected to act in this movie. The central character in this story is about this beautiful girl (Bridget Fonda) and her relation with several prominent British politicians of her time along with a Russian diplomat. It shows the underlying facts and ironies of British political system. While watching the movie one is spell-bound from beginning to the end. This movie is about people and their relations with other people. The scene where Bridget Fonda is running from one man to the other (fresh out of swimming pool) sums up the movie in fact. No, I am not talking of glamor associated with Fonda running around. The scene expresses the sense of the movie in a nutshell. It is a story of a woman who is trying to find her place in the world, about a man who can manipulate people to achieve his end, about a scandalous politician, in fact about so many colorful people that it is impossible to specify here. Please watch the movie if you ever get a chance. If you like intrigue, drama, corruption and beautiful women, not to mention political scandals, then it is the movie for you. This is the perfect movie for late night over the weekends! I have decided to give it nine stars, but it could easily have been ten....

cloudspassingover Stories based on true-life situations are common place. This is primarily because us "normal" people are fascinated by others shortcomings. This movie, is none the less, very interesting and well done. It genuinely has the look of a 60's movie even though it was done in 1989.We can only look at some of the characters, and if we are compassionate in any way, feel some sort of pity for the people portrayed in this movie. As such, the movie does as it should. It takes you from your own reality for a short period of time and gives you a glimpse at what real life is like from a different perspective.I enjoyed this movie, as much as any true-based story. Maybe even a slight bit more as it doesn't need any of the over-used violence and blood of what most true-based stories seem to need. It is intense without Hollywood glamour.

tedg Spoilers herein.Yet another in a long line of films that center on prostitutes as performers and vice versa. Naturally, we don't notice -- its part of the bargain. Add in the standard svengali, the tempter, the devil, the Enry Iggins.What distinguishes this one is supposedly more sexual frankness (but very little actually) and the fact that the events really happened more or less.It also features Joanna Whalley, who in other projects has had allure. But here, both she and Fonda play women much younger than they are with more febrile pulchritude than they can muster. Men mutter through their lives and legs orchestrated by Hurt's man who also can't master his character. Dafoe was able to handle this role much better in "Auto Focus." Nichole Kidman made her life in acting succeeding in the whore- performer's role in precisely the areas that Whalley fails. The business on the other side -- the story of the man sucked into casual pleasure and then being destroyed by a society based on the fiction of class -- isn't particularly explored here. So we can't fault the lack of clarity and energy.Whalley's charm as an actress is tied to red hair and how she uses it. For reasons of historical accuracy, we start out blond and then go red which during the course of the film gets browner and browner. This deprives her of her most significant tool.Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 4: Has some interesting element