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Actors: Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Deception |
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Deception is about a wife (Andie MacDowell) in a small west Texas town. Her husband (Viggo Mortensen) owns a small plane and flies back and forth to Central & South America.
Quite early in the film, he dies in a plane crash. She then finds some of his old baseball cards. She notices that they have strange markings on them and remembers her husbands strategy of identifying the stats on the baseball cards to correspond them to a bank account.
When she gets to the first bank and closes the account and takes the money, she thinks this was her husband's way of making sure that her and their kids were taken care of financially. There she meets Liam Neeson, a man who works for a charity that feeds starving people around the world.
These baseball cards take her around the world, and during that time, she discovers that her husband was somehow involved in a company that makes ink for pens.
Nothing seems to add up and when she flies to Egypt, she discovers that there is something strange about a chemical (Dinochloride) that is used in pens but is also used in chemical weapons.
She again meets Liam Neeson, who works for the company that he deceased husband worked for. She has also found out that her husband isn't dead at all and that he is onto the fact that someone is taking the money he took such pains to hide.
--Jennifer, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Deception |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- money/gems/treasure
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, curly (woman)
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavy
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Irish/McCourt
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Arabia
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Kind of violence:
- mental battles
- guns
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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