Betrayed
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Actor: Betsy Blair, Debra Winger, John Heard, John Mahoney, Tom BerengerDirector: Costa-Gavras
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Betrayed
Movie Review: Eszterhas wrote himself into a corner with this one
Summary: 2 Stars
An FBI agent (Debra Winger) on her first undercover assignment finds herself falling in love with the man whom she has been assigned to watch (Tom Berenger), a man suspected of being a white supremacist and a murderer.
Wow, this film is bad, but bad in a highly entertaining way. Written by Joe Eszterhas, the same writer who gave the film-going public such "classics" as "Jade" and "Showgirls", this film is overly-long, preachy and defies logic at every turn. Yes, of course a man would take his new girlfriend along on a murderous man-hunt after they've just met and then take her on vacation to a KKK camp. Isn't that normal? Actually, it wasn't the lapses in credibility that bothered me with this film. It was when he finally started to make sense that Eszterhas lost me. By essentially concluding that the problem of white supremacists is too big to ever completely stamp out, Eszterhas wrote himself into a corner, forcing the film to have a very weak and unsatisfying ending. In this case, Eszterhas should have paid heed to the vast number of war films that are out there. It might not be possible to show the winning of the war in a single movie, but if you show the winning of a single battle (which arguably he does, but not really), then people will go home happy.
Summary of Betrayed
"Debra Winger and Tom Berenger are simply magnificent" (Rex Reed, At the Movies) as mismatched lovers who try desperately to share each other's lives, but ultimately destroy each other's worlds, in this explosive film of unwavering "suspense, drive and power" (Newsweek). Whena controversial radio personality is brutally murdered by masked assassins, FBI undercover agent Cathy Weaver (Winger) finds herself drawn deep into America's heartland...and into a dangerous relationship with the prime suspect! Romantically attracted to the handsome widower (Berenger), Weaver is convinced of his innocence until she discovers his true natureand a shocking secret that threatenseverything she believes in. Torn between love and duty, Weaver is forced to make the most difficultdecision of her life: Will she betray the man she loves...or the country she's sworn to protect?Action & Adventure DVD Video
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