BB.5
(out of 5)
Michael Douglas is once again the bitch-magnet in this foray into misogyny and what it does to the corporate man. He plays an important executive at a computer software company who is sexually harassed by his tough boss (Demi Moore). Moore gets no character depth except as a two-dimensional villain, thus erasing some possibly good dramatic conflict, plus it never really explains why she is so obsessed with him in the first place (I know it’s a movie and all, but it has to be believable that someone would risk jail for Michael Douglas). Roma Maffia does well as Moore’s lawyer, but with Paul Attanassio’s tepid script and Barry Levinson’s uninvolved direction there’s nothing here but Douglas still running from evil women (boiling his rabbit, killing him with an ice pick, the poor guy, when does it stop?) while Caroline Goodall as his good wife sits around looking pissed off and bored.
Warner Bros., Baltimore Pictures, Constant c Productions
USA, 1994
Directed by Barry Levinson
Screenplay by Paul Attanasio, based on the novel by Michael Crichton
Cinematography by Tony Pierce-Roberts
Produced by Michael Crichton, Barry Levinson
Music by Ennio Morricone
Production Design by Neil Spisak
Costume Design by Gloria Gresham
Film Editing by Stu Linder
