This surreal, darkly comic psychological thriller stars Theresa Russell as a young woman, permanently scarred by a teenage rape, which resulted in a pregnancy and the forced removal of her baby. Obsessed by the loss of her child, and married to an equally, but differently obsessed doctor husband, (model trains and playfully masochistic sessions with his nurse), she is confronted one day by a mysterious stranger who claims to be her long-lost son. It seems he also has been obsessed with finding his mother, but at this point reality and fantasy become confused and a deadly and erotic game begins … Also stars Gary Oldman and Christopher Lloyd with Sandra Bernhardt in a cameo role. Dennis Potter wrote the script.
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304322
Language
English
Audience classification
MA
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Sadism in moving pictures
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Masochism
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Mothers and sons
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Sadism
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Sadism in moving pictures
Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Masochism
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Sadism
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Sound
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Colour
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VHS; Access Print (Section 1)