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Date of Release: February 18, 1991
Director: John D. Patterson
Screenplay: Based on the book Son by Jack Olsen
Elizabeth Montgomery...Ruth Coe
Dale Midkiff...Kevin Coe
Heather Fairfield...Gini
Talia Balsam...Liz
Jerry Bossard...Jay
Mimi Kennedy...Karen
Joycelyn O'Brien...Sunshine Shelly
Dixie K. Wade
J.P. Bumstead
Keith Atkinson
Jimmie Ray Weeks
Richard Roat
Caroline Williams
Joseph d'Angerio...Terry
Gary Bayer...E.R. Doctor
Pat Crawford Brown...Foreman
Alexis Fish...Sue Ann Wilbur
William Forward...Brad Wyman
Taylor Gilbert...Lois Higgins
Charles Levin...Tom Brody
Kevin Lowe...Police Lieutenant
Oceana Marr...Receptionist
Lenora May...Marie
Peter Schreiner...Harvey
James R. Sweeney...Judge Olsen
Biff Yeager...Market Manager
Based on Jack Olsen's nonfiction crime book, Son, this movie about a rich-boy rapist in Spokane, Wash., and his domineering, demeaning mother grabs you right from the eerie opening scene: We watch Dale (Elvis and Me) Midkiff and Elizabeth (Bewitched) Montgomery dress for a party--she slips on nylons; he fastens her dress. It suggests a symbiotic, sexual and superenmeshed relationship.
Director John Patterson makes the mood so claustrophobic that the sound of a phone ringing or a lawn sprinkler ticking can jangle your nerves. Montgomery is dynamic as the possessive, shaming man-hater. Midkiff, who starred earlier this month in The Marla Hanson Story, is excellent as the charmer who acts out his repressed rage in a series of brutal rapes.
Their performances elevate this movie into the company of The Deliberate Stranger, in which Mark Harmon grippingly portrayed serial killer Ted Bundy. Grade: A- -- Reviewer: David Hiltbrand