A forgotten 90s movie. Part 179 In the early 90s, there was a fashion for thrillers, in which the main character - a young (but already hot) girl tried to intoxicate an older man, using her insidiousness and naturally sexuality.
“Poison Ivy” with Drew Barrymore is the most famous of such projects, but there is also “The Devil in the Flesh” with Rose McGowan, as well as “The Fascination” with a young Alicia Silverstone. Later, there were such projects as “Wildness” with Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, as well as “Fan”. By the way, you can also include “Fear” in 1996 with Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. The maniac was a guy, not a girl. . .
I came across “Famus” quite by accident, watching various kinds of thrillers. The description is not that intriguing (still it has a certain similarity with “Poison ivy”), but decided to look. Moreover, here plays a very popular in the 90s Carey Elvis. It was his hero, journalist Nick Elliot, who was prepared for the fate of the young victim Darian Forrester, whose parents Nick settled in a guest house.
The girl immediately became interested in the guy, despite the fact that she was only 14 and he was 28. This passion quickly turned into a manic craving, which clearly did not promise a young man anything good. From love to hate, as they say, right?
Given the fact that such projects, as the father of KVN Alexander Maslyakov says, “close to each other”, they are unlikely to surprise the viewer. Considering that you watched one movie, for example, and then took another.
They are different, let’s say, in the degree of mania of the main characters. Somewhere they decide on very tough actions, somewhere limited to inflicting pain and threats.
But despite the identity, each such film is attractive in principle. First of all, the fact that it is played by very young and at that time rising Hollywood stars. It is always interesting to look at the early years of actors, when they were just trying themselves in the world of cinema, when they were just getting their first leading roles. Silverstone in “The Passion” played her first major role in a feature film, because before that she got into the frame in a couple of series.
Carey Elvis compared to her was already a hardened actor, behind whose shoulders were “Days of Thunder” by Tony Scott, “Dracula” by Francis Ford Coppola, as well as the comedy action movie “Hot Heads” and the military drama “Valor” by Edward Zwick. And of course, Darian’s father was played by Kirtwood Smith, whom you know as the main villain from the first Robocop.
Against the background of such monsters of the big movie, Silverstone did not get lost and was very convincing in the role of a 14-year-old harasser who wants a grown man to be with her.
Secondly, such pictures are good in terms of visual lessons: what adults should not do in relation to persons of the opposite sex and younger in age. Something similar applies primarily to the field of education where relations in the format of a teacher-student (let’s take the case where the student is still an adult) appear quite often and often appear in the movies. And in movies, these connections are often justified. This is probably not entirely correct.
But look at you. I do not impose my opinion on anyone.
Enjoy your visit.
7 out of 10