Donna Deitch directs Joan Severance, Anthony Denison and John Allen Nelson in this erotic thriller where a tough cop begins an affair with a murder suspect.

Gender reversed Basic Instinct from the director of lesbian romance classic Desert Hearts. This isn’t exactly a feminist exploration of the sub genre but the extreme varieties of 90s masculinity in the squad room is near satirical. If you can tune out Deitch’s authorial intent there’s a handsome time waster here. Statuesque Severance goes all in – striding around crime scenes in billowy Armani rip off power suits and cruising the streets to dole out vigilante justice to roving misogynists. The sex scene are better than average. The downside? Our male leads are a bit too stock and wooden for you to care who the killer actual is. AKA Criminal Passion.

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