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When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn

  • Fernsehfilm
  • 1993
  • 3 Std. 12 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,5/10
116
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Marg Helgenberger and Gary Cole in When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn (1993)
Thriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA woman places an ad in the "Soldier of Fortune" magazine to hire a contract killer.A woman places an ad in the "Soldier of Fortune" magazine to hire a contract killer.A woman places an ad in the "Soldier of Fortune" magazine to hire a contract killer.

  • Regie
    • Larry Elikann
  • Drehbuch
    • Ben Green
    • William Bayer
    • Gregory Goodell
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Gary Cole
    • Marg Helgenberger
    • Gregg Henry
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,5/10
    116
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Larry Elikann
    • Drehbuch
      • Ben Green
      • William Bayer
      • Gregory Goodell
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Gary Cole
      • Marg Helgenberger
      • Gregg Henry
    • 4Benutzerrezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    Gary Cole
    Gary Cole
    • John Hearn
    Marg Helgenberger
    Marg Helgenberger
    • Debbie Banister
    Gregg Henry
    Gregg Henry
    • Joe Banister
    Michael Jeter
    Michael Jeter
    • Bob Black
    Shirley Knight
    Shirley Knight
    • Edna Larson
    Nick Searcy
    Nick Searcy
    • Votel
    Stan Shaw
    Stan Shaw
    • Gerst
    Kathleen Wilhoite
    Kathleen Wilhoite
    • Cheryl
    Julie Harris
    Julie Harris
    • Alice Hearn
    Molly Orr
    Molly Orr
    • Chloe
    Jameson Baltes
    • Max
    Jon Paul Steuer
    Jon Paul Steuer
    • Travis
    David Carpenter
    David Carpenter
    • Harley Pearce
    Laura Innes
    Laura Innes
    • Laurel Hearn
    Aaron Michael Metchik
    Aaron Michael Metchik
    • Sky
    Asher Metchik
    • Dean
    Judy Kay Reed
    • Rental Car Agent
    Lorna Scott
    Lorna Scott
    • Nora
    • Regie
      • Larry Elikann
    • Drehbuch
      • Ben Green
      • William Bayer
      • Gregory Goodell
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    MargaretCarlin

    A good review for an amazing thriller.

    The plot line has been described above in a previous review. Marge Helgenberger was terrific as the tantalizing vamp. She enticed this poor jerk, John Hearn, well played by Gary Cole, into schemes of murder & mayhem. It was a damned fast 4 hours, which held our attention. Kept waiting for him to say, enough-I will not do this. But she had many schemes and the sexual allure to drive him over the edge & do her bidding. Supporting cast was excellent.
    9amedusa50x

    Much Better Than You'd Think!

    Leave it to Gary Cole to turn in yet another woefully underrated, quietly superb performance for which he'll probably never get anywhere near the credit he deserves. He gives just such a performance in "When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn," a must-see for any Gary Cole fan, especially those who remember his stunning performance as Captain Jeffrey MacDonald in "Fatal Vision," a performance for which he was praised but was never praised enough.

    Anyone who has followed Gary Cole's career in television and feature films knows that he has often found himself relegated to supporting roles in which he is forced to bury his talents, though he shines in each and every one of those roles nevertheless. In his leading role in "When Love Kills," Cole utterly nails the fatal character flaw that exists in any man -- in Everyman -- who's ever fallen for a crooked dame so hard he can't see straight and gets sucked so deeply and swiftly into the bottomless pit of her sexuality and greed that he loses himself entirely.

    Don't be misled by the "TV-lookingness" of this film; it's classic Film Noir in plot, in message, and in execution. Marg Helgenberger's crooked dame is deliciously campy, bossy, icky-sweet perky, and spot-on deadly, her chirpy malevolence a perfect balance for Cole's Man in Search of a Fatal Obsession. These two are so good together in the sex scenes in "When Love Kills" that you'll be tempted to wonder if they weren't doing a number with each other off the screen as well; now, that is good acting!

    I've just seen this movie (made in 1993) for the first time on the Lifetime Channel in 2004 and fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Sure, you could hack away at it for various reasons -- maybe it's a tad too long, maybe a few scenes could have been slightly better, and maybe the man in the moon is a lady -- but do yourself a favor and give it a chance. Especially give Gary Cole a chance to do what he does so well and always does when he sinks his teeth into a role like John Hearn: He plays it to the hilt, grabs you by the throat, and doesn't let go even after the end credits are rolling.

    "When Love Kills" is surprisingly intense despite its made-for-TV patina and limp title. It manages to do a better job than many other films I've seen in describing, believably and chillingly, the Descent into Darkness any man takes when he lets his Little Head do his "thinking" for him. There are several scenes in "When Love Kills" that are real nail-biters, but nowhere is Gary Cole more riveting than in the scene where, having realized that he's been played for a sucker by Helgenberger's maniacal femme fatale, he faces his own demons in a motel room shower.

    I continue to be amazed that Gary Cole isn't routinely whispered about as a "great" actor along the lines of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro because he thoroughly deserves the same whispers. I also continue to be amazed at the number of people who blow off a made-for-TV movie just because it was made for TV.

    If you blow this one off, you'll be missing a film that's much better than you'd think.
    petershelleyau

    soldier of seduction

    Debbie Bannister (Marg Helgberger) is the vice-president of a bank in Gainsville, Florida who answers an ad in the magazine Soldier of Fortune by John Hearn ex-Vietnam Marine and Atlanta truckdriver (Gary Cole). As John presents himself as a hired gun, Debbie uses him to kill Harley Pearce (David Carpenter), the ex-husband of her sister Cheryl Larson (Kathleen Wilhoite), Debbie's husband Joe (Gregg Henry), and also Sandy Black.

    Helgenberger plays Debbie as a sensual trailer-trash femme fatale, wearing tight clothes, breathing heavily, and crying when asking of John. We see Debbie fidgeting with her necklace, eating a cherry in closeup, in a towel and many sex scenes with John, in a family photo with her family, laughing/screaming when she gas explodes her grandmother's house, and with a cold cream mask with Joe. Helgenberger is funny when rude on the telephone - `Well, maybe he's come back in the last 5 minutes?!, shakes her head when told she has no sense of reality replying `I know what's real', sings Hush Little Baby with a tear-stained clown face, and has a child-like rapport with both Debbie's two children as well as John's dog and his son Travis (Jon Paul Steuer). She is best when demonstrating how she plays John - slapping him so he will remember how much killing Joe hurts her, squealing in surprise at John's anger about her delaying in divorcing Joe, faking the bruises she claims Joe caused, and her slow reaction to John stopping her from leaving a room when he won't agree to do the first murder.

    The teleplay by Gregory Goodell, from a story by Goodell and William Bayer and on the book The Soldier of Fortune Murders by Ben Green, features notable lines. Debbie first meets John at a bar called the Alligator Pit with a featured stuffed alligator, Harley is described as `scum that aint worth the garbage on his frontyard', and John's mother Alice (Julie Harris) tells him `I've seen you fall hard and fast before, and you're no fun to pick up', and asks `Are you going to tell me where you're going? Are you going to tell me why you're going?!'. Goodell also uses a unicorn metaphor for Debbie, where she has a tattoo and a figurine in her home.

    Director Larry Elikann has trouble sustaining our interest in the 140 minute running time, with the denouement especially unsatisfying for Debbie, but he uses a subjective camera view of her when John kills Harley, focuses on John's face when he shoots Sandy, cross-cuts between Debbie and Cheryl running from grandmother's gaseous house and the lit candle, and has our view of Debbie lying to the police hindered by venetian blind slats.
    10srmadison7

    I would like to know where we can purchase this movie

    I would really like to buy it. Sorry to short, sorry to short. Sorry to short, sorry to short. Sorry to short, sorry to short. Sorry to short, sorry to short. Sorry to short, sorry to short. Sorry to short, sorry to short.

    Please let me know where we can purchase this movie.

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      Based on the Soldier of Fortune murders, so named due to the ad Hearn had placed in Soldier of Fortune magazine seeking "high-risk assignments. U.S. or overseas".

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 18. Mai 1993 (Vereinigte Staaten)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • When Love Kills
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Alexander/Enright & Associates
      • McGillen Entertainment
      • Front Street Pictures
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      3 Stunden 12 Minuten
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      • Stereo
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