Donovan Reiter Movies
Released from prison after serving eight years for the murder of her philandering husband, an innocent woman eager to start a new life discovers that the same person who previously framed her for murder is about to strike again. With little time to lose before she is once again placed behind bars for a crime she didn't commit, the determined amateur sleuth sets out to ensure that the real killer is captured and justice is finally served. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Part high-tech spy thriller and part psychological study, Eye of the Beholder was Ewan McGregor's first feature film following his mainstream breakthrough performance in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The Eye (Ewan McGregor) is an agent of the British Secret Service, equipped with the latest in high-tech crime fighting gadgetry and assisted by his indefatigable collegue, Hilary (k.d. lang). The Eye's latest assignment is a surveillance project; the son of a well-known politician has been spending a great deal of money on someone, and they would like to know who and why. A little sleuthing reveals that the mysterious person taking the cash is a woman named Joanna (Ashley Judd), but the trail gets much stickier when the Eye witnesses Joanna pulling a knife and killing the politician's son. Normally, he'd take the shortcut to putting her behind bars, but some time ago he lost contact with his daughter when his wife left him; Joanna reminds the Eye of his daughter, and he's too fascinated with her to bring her to justice. The Eye now follows Joanna obsessively, and discovers that she's also involved with a blind man (Patrick Bergin) and has a history of emotional instability from being abandoned by her father at a young age. Eye of the Beholder was directed by Stephan Elliott, best known for the comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, (more)
- 1999
- NR
In Le Dernier Souffle/Deep End, a policeman is forced to discover just how far his family has chosen to live on the other side of the law. Quebec peace officer Laurent (Luc Picard) arrives at a crime scene to discover a particularly brutal murder has been committed -- and that the victim was his brother Martin. Laurent is determined to get to the bottom of the killing, but the deeper he digs the more unpleasant the facts become. It seems Martin was being investigated by the police at the time of his death; he was a member of a white supremacist organization in cahoots with Russian gangsters and tied to many illegal activities. Laurent's unpleasant discoveries don't stop there, when he finds out his father is a terrorist wanted by the law, and the trail of suspects in Martin's murder leads him to a small town in Arkansas and a fanatical right-wing militia group. This French-Canadian drama features dialogue in both French and English, with different parts of the story taking place in Quebec and the United States. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Luc Picard, Julien Poulin, (more)
