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Actors: Peter Coyote, Nastassja Kinski, Fairuza Balk, Jeremy Piven, Ernie Hudson
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Red Letters
Red Letters is a little known movie written an directed by bradley Battersby. It is about an ex-author now teacher Dennis (Coyote) who is having some issues with students who are drawn to him because of a highly erotic book he wrote called Red Letters. Soon, he finds these letter addressed to someone who used to live in his apartment from an inmate in jail. She writes him a lot of letter and finally he responds and starts to talk to her. But soon, she gets jealous of him and breaks out of jail and goes searching for him, because she needs help to prove she is innocent. He starts to help her and finds that he is in trouble now to. An underrated film on the most part.
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Plot
Time/era of movie: - 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging Yes
Crime & Scandal Yes
Story of - criminals (shown sympathetically) on the run
Blackmail & Seduction? Yes
Lover is... - criminal/bad doer

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - teacher/professor
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) average
Unclothed? - Chest
Events of movie makes character more... - happy
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type - (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
How much in movie? - 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality - German

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - not employed but independently wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 40%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality - German
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - California
City? Yes
City: - Los Angeles
Misc setting - fancy mansion - school

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Movie makes you feel... - encouraged
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - seeing breasts - seeing full frontal--women
Any profanity? - A lot of foul language
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