Masquerade (1988)

Note Générale:

5,9/10   

Réalisateur:

Bob Swaim

Scénariste:

Dick Wolf (writer)

Date de sortie:

11 mars 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Mystère | Romance | Thriller

Accroche:

An heiress. A setup. A murder.

Intrigue:

A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain...

Plot Keywords:

Premeditated | Male Nudity | Yachting | Heiress | Secret Lover

Récompenses:

1 nomination

Avis des utilisateurs:

Everyone Wants Meg's Money

Ensemble

Rob Lowe	...	Tim Whalen
Meg Tilly	...	Olivia Lawrence
Kim Cattrall	...	Brooke Morrison
Doug Savant	...	Mike McGill
John Glover	...	Tony Gateworth
Dana Delany	...	Anne Briscoe
Erik Holland	...	Chief of Police
Brian Davies	...	Granger Morrison
Barton Heyman	...	Tommy McGill
Bernie McInerney	...	Harland Fitzgerald
Bill Lopatto	...	Weyburn
Pirie MacDonald	...	Theodore Cantrell
Maeve McGuire	...	Aunt Eleanor
Ira Wheeler	...	Uncle Charles
Timothy Landfield	...	Sam

Durée:

Germany:91 min | USA:91 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais | Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

1,85 : 1

Son:

Dolby

Classification:

Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:14 | Australia:M | Netherlands:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Norway:15

Lieux de tournage:

Shelter Island, Long Island, New York, USA

Société:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Goofs:

Continuité: After having had sex with Brooke Morrison, Tim Whalen has a sweat-wet back and in the next shot is dry.

Everyone Wants Meg's Money

Masquerade is a really good Hitchcockian type of thriller, a combination of Suspicion and The Heiress in which sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia DeHavilland brought aspects of Meg Tilly's character in their Oscar winning performances. It was shot on location in the ritzy Hamptons of Suffolk County, in fact the plot is about the haves and have nots of the area. And that's an area where the haves have PLENTY.

One of those haves is Meg Tilly heir to a $300,000.000.00 fortune. She's a nice kid who properly wonders whether the men who court like her for her or bank account.

She's got one leach of a stepfather in John Glover, a character you just love to hate. But by the terms of her mother's will she can't get rid of him until she's 21. And he's a guy who's used to a very high lifestyle.

Tilly's also got two men in her life. Local boy Doug Savant whose father works in the shipyard on the yachts of the rich and famous who has joined the town police force. He's been crushing out on her since he was a little kid. But the Hamptons do have their own caste system.

And then into her life comes Rob Lowe, the handsome and mysterious stranger who captains Brian Davies yacht and on the side kanoodles with his wife, Kim Cattrall. He puts the moves on Tilly and since its Rob Lowe, who could blame a girl.

Tilly's the innocent here, that's a constant, but as the story continues and several murders take place, she doesn't know who to trust. You won't know because the plot takes several twists and the motives of the persons in the cast change over the course of the film.

For those of you Rob Lowe fans of both genders you can have ample opportunity to see him in several stages of undress with Kim Cattrall and Meg Tilly. He's also got an interesting scene with Doug Savant who looks pretty good himself that takes on some homoerotic overtones. What beautiful children those two would have if possible.

The title Masquerade refers both to the name of the Tilly family yacht and the fact that except for Tilly, a lot of these characters are not as they appear on the surface. Masquerade is a really good thriller of a film, don't miss it when it is shown.