Blind Side (1993) (TV)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Geoff Murphy

Writers (WGA):

Stewart Lindh (story) &
Solomon Weingarten (story) ...

Release Date:

30 January 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

They had something he wanted... he had something they feared

Plot:

A couple visits Mexico to scout a new location for their furniture manufacturing business and hit a cop with their car on the way back stateside...

Plot Keywords:

Couple | Sex | Accident | Beautiful Woman | Witness

Cast

Rutger Hauer	...	Jake Shell
Rebecca De Mornay	...	Lynn Kaines
Ron Silver	...	Doug Kaines
Jonathan Banks	...	Aaron
Mariska Hargitay	...	Melanie
Tamara Clatterbuck	...	Barbara Hall
Jorge Cervera Jr.	...	Roadblock Cop #1
Josh Cruze	...	Roadblock Cop #2
David Labiosa	...	Roadblock Cop #3
Richard L. Duran	...	Mexican Cop
Bill Dance	...	Mr. Dance
Diana Lee Hsu	...	Mrs. Dance
Geoffrey Rivas	...	Mechanic
Joanna Sanchez	...	Veronica

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

South Korea:18 | UK:18 | Germany:18 | Norway:18 (video premiere) | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Argentina:16 | Iceland:16

Company:

Chestnut Hill Productions

Soundtrack:

FIRE IN THE RAIN

If creepy Rutger Hauer shows up your doorstep, what do you do?

Doug and Lynn Kaines (Ron Silver and Rebecca De Mornay), furniture tycoon-wannabes, are in Mexico scouting out a new location for their business. Driving back home, they seemingly strike and kill a man standing in the middle of the road. Frightened, they drive on home. Shortly after they get there, however, Shell (Rutger Hauer) shows up on their doorstep, claiming to have been in Mexico and to be looking for employment.

The Kaines, presented to us as everyday people (albeit with money), instantly sense that Shell knows something about the hit-and-run - or does he? They don't know for sure - not at first - but even the possibility of the hulking Hauer being able to hold something over this affluent couple is enough to spook them. Complicating matters is the fact that Lynn's pregnant.

So what would YOU do? Charming, handsome ("in an outdoorsy way," Lynn says), eager to please, Shell seems like he wants to fit in - yet he drops hints that he might have been a witness to the accident. Screenwriting being what it is today, we have a pretty good idea things will wind up in the open before too long, but not before the lives of the Kaines are completely ruined. If the lead characters were in their twenties, we'd see Shell try to do something to their parents, but since they're all grown up, Mom and Dad are out of the picture. (Which is not to say that Shell doesn't find someone close to them to harass, of course!) The story gets sillier and sillier as it goes on, but somehow the performances by all three leads keep it afloat. Hauer's doing a role he can pretty much do in his sleep, but he hasn't lost any edge off it. All in all, a fine HBO movie.