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The Maddening
USA 1995
produced by
Leslie Greif, Mark Amin (executive), Charles Finch (executive)
directed by Danny Huston
starring Mia Sara, Brian Wimmer, Burt Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Josh Mostel, William Hickey, Kayla Buglewicz, Candace Hutson, Angela Bomford, Darrell Fetty, Rett Wedding, Bobby Amor, Marie Debrey, Victoria Bass, Daniel Greene, Greg Kasper, Walter Bithell
screenplay by Henry Slesar, Leslie Greif, based on the novel Playmates by Andrew Neiderman, music by Peter Manning Robinson
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Angered by her husband David (Brian Wimmer), Cassie (Mia Sara) packs
her daughter Samantha (Kayla Buglewicz) into her vintage car and hits the
road to pay her sister a visit ... but her trip is stopped short when her
car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, and Roy (Burt Reynolds), a
garage owner nice enough to offer her and her daughter assistance and even
abode, turns out to be not quite as decent a guy as he pretended to be,
while his wife Georgina (Angie Dickinson) is a regular maniac, mistaking
Cassie for her sister and locking her into her sister's room. Now this is
bad enough, made even worse by the fact that Roy soon enough decides he
wants to rape Cassie, and is talking to the spirit of his dead father
(William Hickey) all the time. While still desperately trying to escape, Cassie by and
by learns Roy and Georgina's family secret: Many years ago, Roy killed
their baby son, and to keep her from reporting it to the police,
Georgina poisoned her own sister and the sister's daughter - and since then,
both of them are a little off the hook ... Ultimately, Cassie's husband
David, who has since been charged with her murder and is therefore on the
run from the law, comes to the rescue, and he proves to be able to duck everything Roy
throws at him one way or the other. In the finale, Roy gets into such a
murderous frenzy that he shoots his own wife before Cassie and David can
kill him ... In writing, the plot of this psychothriller sounds
totally interesting, and truth to be told, veterans Burt Reynolds and
Angie Dickinson make an impressive psycho-couple ... yet the rest of the
film is pretty much forgettable: The Maddening's rather outrageous
and pretty sick story is adapted in such good taste that one totally fails
to get a feeling for what atrocities are actually going on in the film, slow pacing as
well as a lack of tension and suspense keep the audience from ever being
at the edge of their seats, and a particularly charisma-free, underacting
couple of leads sees to it that the film is little more than a boring
piece of genre cinema.
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