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Actors: Linda Fiorentino, Daniel Baldwin, Gregg Henry, Bill Smitrovich, Millie Perkins
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Bodily Harm |
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BODILY HARM is a movie cowritten and directed by James Lemmo in 1995.
Las Vegas detectives Rita Cates and J.D. Prejon must investigate the brutal murder of a striptease dancer. The victim had been one of Sam McKeon's girlfriends for a while. Sam, a former cop and a former boyfriend of detective Cates, hasn't any alibi for the night of the crime. When Sam's psychiatrist and mistress is also murdered in the same manner, the police hesitates between two theories: either Sam is a psychopath or there is someone out there in Vegas who wants Sam to be arrested and convicted for some mysterious reasons. A subplot describes Rita Cates and Sam McKeon's rekindled love.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Bodily Harm |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Moderately Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 50%
Murders of set profession?
- prostitutes/strippers/porn
Special suspect?
- lover
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, straight (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
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
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- not employed but independently wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
City?
Yes
City:
- Las Vegas
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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