Killing Affair, A
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Actor: Bill Smitrovich, Kathy Baker, Peter WellerBrand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Killing Affair, A
Movie Review: Lost in old films
Summary: 5 Stars
This review is for: Killing Affair Based on the Robert Houston novel Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday. This is a powerful five star movie deserving of an "Oscar". It probably would mean more to a person who lived in the 1940's & 1950's and experienced first hand the subjugation of women to men in America at the time. Maggie Gresham(Kathy Baker) is a woman dealing with the freedom from an abusive husband and the enticement of another affair which would take her back into the slavery she had. Maggie Gresham's husband is a mean, vile strawboss at the local factory. He manipulates employees, steals from them, cheats them, sleeps with their daughters and wives without reprisal because of their fear of being fired. He is the logical one to be killed. When Maggie's husband fails to come home at night, she accepts it like all of the women of that time and place as she accepts her situation in life. The morning of his death, she finds him in a shed chopped up, but cannot get to town to notify anyone because her house is on an island and her boat is gone. Enter the stranger Bastion Morris(Peter Weller) who admits killing her husband but claims it was in retailiation for her husband killing his wife and family. He keeps her hostage and tries to convince her, quite convincingly, of his sincerity. The rest of the movie deals with the uncertainty of Bastion's story and the events which come into play to reach the final conclusion. Kathy Baker does a great job of playing the strong and determined woman who deals effectively with her situation. In the beginning she was thrust into a life not of her choosing but a life common to many women of her time. In the end she achieves her complete freedom from the system in which she has been cast and shows the determination to live the balance of her life as a free woman.
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