Whispers in the Dark |  | Director: Christopher Crowe
Actors: Annabella Sciorra, Jamey Sheridan, Alan Alda, Anthony LaPaglia, Jill Clayburgh
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 32263
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, Surround Sound, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D327564D
ISBN: 0792198220
UPC: 097363275640
EAN: 9780792198222
ASIN: B0002I8322
Theatrical Release Date: August 7, 1992
Release Date: September 7, 2004
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Annabella Sciorra plays a Manhattan shrink with a couple of particularly troubling patients. The most haunting is a woman (Deborah Unger) with unusually kinky sexual tastes; Sciorra gets gooned out when she realizes that her new boyfriend (Jamey Sheridan) is the same guy her patient has been seeing. And when the patient winds up dead, Sciorra begins looking slantwise at her boyfriend. Unfortunately, despite some spooky mood setting, this psychological thriller goes in circles and ends up nowhere, thanks to the implausible stretches of writer-director Christopher Crowe's script. Sciorra seems hollow at the film's center, though Sheridan brings a certain scary charisma to his boyfriend role and Alan Alda is solid as her psychiatric mentor. --Marshall Fine
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 Whispers in the Dark February 25, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman. This movie "Whispers in the Dark" keeps you guessing to who the killer is, and when he finally revealed himself his actions were so eerily slow and psychotic that it took you a while to realize that he was at all capable of committing the sick and murderous acts that he did in the movie. The ending is a bit hard to take. This is worth watching.
 Suspenseful with plot twist at the end October 4, 2009
Jim Gateley (Sunnyvale, CA)
4 of 5 stars for the suspense movie Whispers of the Dark. One of the hallmarks of a great suspense movie is that you don't see "who" is behind the events until the critical moment. This movie meets that standard! Lots of odd suspenseful things happening with the finger of blame going in one direction, but, surprise, its another character AND you don't get this news until the last concluding scenes.
THe story is about a lady shrink and a couple of her patiences. The lady patience has the hots for the lady shrink doctor. Next we learn that our lady shrink has a new boyfrend who happens to be the x-boyfriend of our lady patience. Throw in a couple of murders a few extra characters and things look pretty grim until we find out who really has the hots for our lady shrink.
A very good suspense movie. Alot of adult themes and nudity. It will keep you guessing. Oh, to the credit of the writer/director, they wrap the story quickly and end without alot of extra junk. I do recommend this movie!
Love it September 12, 2008
A. Spann (Florida)
This is a racey and seductive mystery/drama. One of my favorite movies. Alan Alda is also stars in this movie.
First time Annabella Sciorra looks like a sexy diva in a movie! January 30, 2006
Ronnie Clay (Winnsboro, Louisiana)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Annabella Sciorra looks so attractive in this movie unlike her next movie she was in right after this called (The Hand that Rock's the Cradle) in that movie she looked older but not in (Whispers in the Dark) where she looks young the best part is you get to see her naked and have sex.
This movie is clearly an opportunity to cash in on "Basic Instinct's" success. The film deals both with psychotherapy, and excessive amounts of sex. The police lieutenant is a ripe candidate for analysis - wonder if that accomplished anything judging from the film.
Men And Women in 1990s New York January 30, 2006
Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I give WHISPERS IN THE DARk an extra star for attempting to say something about adult sexuality, an area into which very few American movies seem to want to venture. Annabella Sciorra stars as Ann, a young psychiatrist with trust issues of her own. She has been unable to keep any relationship going with any man. The one boyfriend she's living with has a serious drinking problem and on top of it confronts her (underneath a terribly symbolic painting of a wailing girl) with an ultimatum that he's leaving her, adding insult to injury because she realizes she should long ago have stepped up to the plate and walked out on *his* ass instead of vice versa.
Most of Ann's immediate problems stem from her interactions with her two star patients, an artist and his dealer. John Leguizamo's the artist, born with a curse that sets him apart from his fellow man: when he meets a beautiful woman, he doesn't want to make love to her, he wants to hear her whimper with suffering. Leguizamo contributes a convincing portrayal of a total creep, but he's so little you wonder could he really do any damage to anybody? How tall is he, five feet one? Even Annabella Sciorra seems to tower over him and she's a tiny little thing. However Leguizamo's black leather pants were expertly fitted and give him enough of the old Hollywood oomph to make this a great debut for him, even though you've seen him do this shtick in every role he's played since then. Ann's other patient, Eve, the gallerist, is played by the one and only Deborah Kara Unger (here billed before she thought of adding "Kara" to her name) in a completely over the top performance as a woman who can't stay dressed for more than a few minutes at a time. She's like Anna Nicole Smith here, or Anita Ekberg in 8 1/2, a big mountain of sex like a vanilla ice cream sundae. Annabella Sciorra wonders if she's attracted to Eve; well, of course she is, you'd have to be made of stone not to respond to Eve. And Eve seems attracted to her; during one session, she confesses her desire to take off all her clothes and to masturbate in front of her shrink. Okay.
All three stars are great and they're backed up by an interesting passel of thesps including Jill Clayburgh, who once played all the variations on the part Sciorra landed here--the worried, independent, neurotic NY professional woman. Jill Clayburgh gives one speech while jogging at a good clip of about twenty miles an hour, and it's a long speech too! (About getting so worked up by listening of patients' erotic revelations that she would switch their appointments to the end of the day so that she'd hear them out, then rush home and rape Leo.) (Her husband, not Leo Di Caprio.)
Leo is played by Alan Alda. The rape thing is supposed to be amusing, but given the way it plays out in the film it gives you the cold chills when you rewind and play it forward again.
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