A private eye shadows a female serial killer of men all over the U.S. without her knowing as he, strangely enough, occasionally acts as her guardian angel.A private eye shadows a female serial killer of men all over the U.S. without her knowing as he, strangely enough, occasionally acts as her guardian angel.A private eye shadows a female serial killer of men all over the U.S. without her knowing as he, strangely enough, occasionally acts as her guardian angel.
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- TriviaDirector Stephan Elliott had originally envisioned an older woman to play Joanna Eris. However, after Ashley Judd campaigned for the part, he relented.
- GoofsA scene shows an electrified train leaving Pittsburgh. The PA railroad only electrified as far west as Harrisburg.
- Quotes
Stephen: If I blink, I might lose her.
Lucy Wilson: So?
Stephen: So the last time I blinked, I lost you.
- Crazy creditsAt the start of the movie the following appears on screen: "Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." - Henry Miller "The Wisdom of the Heart"
- Alternate versionsOverseas prints are longer than U.S. prints; including extra scenes such as one with Jean and John Teodoro as doormen.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Killing Priscilla (2000)
- SoundtracksI Wish You Love
(Que Reste-t-il de nos Amours ?)
Music by Charles Trenet and Léo Chauliac
French lyrics by Charles Trenet
English lyrics by Albert Beach
Produced by Marius De Vries
Performed by Chrissie Hynde
Used by permission of EMI Virgin Music, Inc.
Courtesy of Warner Music UK Limited
Featured review
Looking at the plot summary and the advertising for this movie, I was led to believe that this movie would be some kind of action packed serial killer movie. What I got was something completely different.
McGregor plays The Eye, some kind of surveillance agent, whose wife has left him and taken his baby daughter with her. That doesn't stop him from seeing his daughter in hallucination form. During a routine surveillance assignment, The Eye watches Judd kill his target, and he instantly falls in love (or something like love). He becomes so obsessed with Judd that he quits his job, and begins stalking her, and comes to find out that she's a virtual chameleon, changing identities on a whim.
What I thought would be an action movie turned out to be a very existential art film. It very much had the feel of a foreign film. The direction is very good; there are some things in this movie that I've never seen before (the bathroom scene is a good example). Both leads are good (although McGregor's part needed to be played by someone much older, not younger, that Judd). The daughter hallucination is annoying at times, but it's an effective plot device. The movie does just kind of go freeform after the first half hour, and logic goes out the window at times, but those are hallmarks of foreign films, which this feels very much like. A lot of people are going to see this movie and hate it (much the way that people who were expecting to see an I Know What You Did...-type movie hated Blair Witch Project). Not what I expected, but I was still satisfied.
McGregor plays The Eye, some kind of surveillance agent, whose wife has left him and taken his baby daughter with her. That doesn't stop him from seeing his daughter in hallucination form. During a routine surveillance assignment, The Eye watches Judd kill his target, and he instantly falls in love (or something like love). He becomes so obsessed with Judd that he quits his job, and begins stalking her, and comes to find out that she's a virtual chameleon, changing identities on a whim.
What I thought would be an action movie turned out to be a very existential art film. It very much had the feel of a foreign film. The direction is very good; there are some things in this movie that I've never seen before (the bathroom scene is a good example). Both leads are good (although McGregor's part needed to be played by someone much older, not younger, that Judd). The daughter hallucination is annoying at times, but it's an effective plot device. The movie does just kind of go freeform after the first half hour, and logic goes out the window at times, but those are hallmarks of foreign films, which this feels very much like. A lot of people are going to see this movie and hate it (much the way that people who were expecting to see an I Know What You Did...-type movie hated Blair Witch Project). Not what I expected, but I was still satisfied.
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- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,500,786
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,959,447
- Jan 30, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $17,589,705
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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