Shining Through
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Joely Richardson, John Gielgud, Liam Neeson, Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas Director: David Seltzer Brand: Fox Producer: David Seltzer Writer: David Seltzer Producer: Carol Baum Producer: Howard Rosenman Producer: Nigel Wooll Producer: Sandy Gallin Writer: Susan Isaacs DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 132 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-01-11 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: 20th Century Fox |
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Movie Reviews of Shining Through
Movie Review: Can you spell stupid?
Summary: 1 Stars
How there could actually be positive reviews of this absolutely awful movie is beyond my comprehension. I read the book. All the the wonderful juice of the novel is gone. Linda's hopeless life. Her alcoholic mother, John Berringer esquire and her ridculous hope that their shotgun wedding can result in true happiness. John's cold ruthless sexuality. Linda's belief that she is SMARTER than they are! Nan Leland (John's wife then John's ex and her incredible socialite spite).
The movie? Who cared? Who could believe that the OSS would use a German speaker in Germany who was not a native of that country. I could rewrite the novel and the movie and make it much better. Leland could not possibly be running around the world as a "spy" He was never a spy. He worked for army intelligence, got to law school and became a beaurocrat.
His job was management and coordination and reporting to congress.
Laughable moments. Linda goes to work for Ed. without any dialogue, character development or anything not even a little kissy face, we suddenly see Melanie in black garters on top of him in a brief 'love scene." Michael Douglas does not touch Melanie one time in this scene. Get it?
Melanie engineers for herself an exact copy of the famous "goodbye" scene between Rick and Ilsa in "Casablanca' The prop engine plane the night, the fog and the hat are so stupid I had to turn it off to recover.
Ed naturally rescues the stupid spy who gets caught. He goes to Berlin although he does not speak German apparantly at all or he wouldn't have needed a translator in the first place. "The Spy wore Red" supposedly a true story of Aline countess of Ramonones (A spanish contessa) and American model who worked in Europe all her life and who never got caught would have made a much better story. Susan Isaacs can't write a decent plot to save her life. She's wonderful with characters though.
P.S Isaacs has a kinky streak. Ed confesses to his to be bride at the end of the novel that he hired a hooker who looked just like her although she was a little fat. I guess this shows how much he loved her.