Taglines: A violent crime. A secret affair. A single witness. And nothing is what it appears to be through…
The Bedroom Window movie storyline. Terry is having an affair with his boss’ wife Sylvia. One night after an office party they are together and Sylvia witnesses an attack on Denise from Terry’s bedroom window. She doesn’t want to expose their relationship and so is reluctant about talking to the police. Terry, wanting to help, gives the police the description of the attacker. He soon becomes the main suspect in the case. He then sets to find the real rapist/killer with some help from victim Denise.
The Bedroom Window is a 1987 American neo-noir film psychological thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson. It stars Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern and Isabelle Huppert, and was shot in Baltimore in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood. Based on a novel The Witnesses, by Anne Holden, it tells the story of a young executive who starts an affair with the wife of his boss which then escalates into nightmare after he lies to the police in order to protect her.
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Isabelle Huppert and generic Steve Guttenberg prove incompatible costars in “The Bedroom Window,” a cockamamie mystery that finds these bi-continentals drawn together like, say, refrigerator magnets to styrofoam coolers. Yes, it’s magic.
The lovers are supposed to be absolutely crazy about each other, sick with lust even, but you’ll see more convincing romance from runners-up on “Star Search.” Guttenberg’s merely more blah than usual; Huppert, in her first English-speaking role, seems to be translating as she goes.
But then neither has ever worked with writer-director Curtis Hanson before. Hanson, whose previous directing credits include such immortals as “The Arousers” and “Losin’ It,” has no business at the helm. His copycat pacing is as wrong-headed as his care and feeding of actors, an area in which he seems to favor starvation.
Hanson’s screenplay, however, isn’t half bad. It’s about a Baltimorean (Guttenberg) who pretends to witness a crime to conceal his affair with his boss’s wife (Huppert), and then becomes a suspect in the case himself.
Cherubic Elizabeth McGovern as the victim teams with Guttenberg to trap the real rapist, who gets off scot-free on one of those pesky technicalities. To bait the psycho killer, McGovern disguises herself as a floozy and slithers off to a working man’s bar on the wrong side of Baltimore. She looks like a cross between a female impersonator and Alvin the Chipmunk as she wiggles on her bar stool.
She makes an utter fool of herself. Where was Hanson, for instance, when she licked her forefinger and caressed the tip of the pool cue? Even Carl Lumbly as a detective — the same Carl Lumbly who plays a detective on “Cagney & Lacey” every week — doesn’t come off convincingly here.
Of course, we have to suffer through more romance when McGovern recovers her libidinal urges in the company of the scintillating, hopelessly attractive, Nautilus-improved Guttenberg. And they make Huppert and Guttenberg look like “Caligula.”
The Bedroom Window (1987)
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Shenar, Carl Lumbly, Wallace Shawn, Brad Greenquist, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Maury Chaykin, Sara Carlson, Penelope Allen
Screenplay by: Curtis Hanson
Production Design by: Ron Foreman
Cinematography by: Gilbert Taylor
Film Editing by: Scott Conrad
Costume Design by: Clifford Capone
Set Decoration by: Hilton Rosemarin
Art Direction by: Rafael Caro
Music by: Patrick Gleeson, Michael Shrieve
MPAA Rating: R for adult situations / language, nudity, violence.
Distributed by: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Release Date: January 16, 1987
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