Half Moon Street
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Faith Kent, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh, Ram John Holder, Sigourney Weaver Director: Bob Swaim Brand: WEAVER,SIGOURNEY Cinematographer: Peter Hannan Writer: Bob Swaim Editor: Richard Marden Producer: Edward R. Pressman Producer: Geoffrey Reeve Writer: Edward Behr Writer: Paul Theroux DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 90 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-06-03 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Movie Reviews of Half Moon Street
Movie Review: Not much of interest here
Summary: 2 Stars
Dr. Lauren Slaughter (Sigourney Weaver), an underpaid political analyst, turns to high-end prostitution in order to make ends meet, thereby encountering an influential British politician, Lord Bulbeck (Michael Caine), who is trying to broker a Middle East peace deal. Before long, she is imperiled by an attempt to assassinate Bulbeck and derail the negotiations.
This implausible film doesn't know what it wants to be. Its best moments are the scenes between Weaver and Caine, but unfortunately there's a lot of nonsense to clutter up the plot. Weaver's character is supposed to be intelligent and worldly, yet she hooks under her own name and appears to be surprised later when her unique choice of sideline costs her some credibility in intellectual circles. In addition, it seems unnecessary for the director/writer Bob Swaim and his co-writer Edward Behr to have made her a prostitute at all. Novelist Paul Theroux may have justified it thematically in the original novel, but on the screen it just plays out as a particularly implausible pretext for her to meet Lord Bulbeck. After spending most of the running time developing this relationship, the film concludes with a cliched 15 minutes or so of uninteresting violence, leaving the affair between the two main characters unresolved.