Reversal of Fortune
1990
Newport, Rhode Island
Barbet Schroeder
Crime Drama Thriller
What’s it all about: Glenn Close may be in a vegetative state now, Jeremy Irons, but just wait until the flashback when she sneaks up on a broken hip and gets all Glenn Close on you. Julie Hagerty and Christine Baranski play von Bulow’s former and current girlfriends, respectively, so he doesn’t seem to have a type.
First Encounter: first viewing
Prostitute Index: low
Death By: appeal
Relics: kiss curls, barbiturates
Hoops: the blonde woman who is just plain wrong (in this case, morale-high-grounder Felicity Huffman)
Heartthrobs: Ron Silver, Christine Baranski
Pass/Fails the Test of Time: Felicity Huffman
LoFi Magic: Glenn Close eating a sundae for dinner while smoking a cigarette; Christine Baranski active listening with her eyes; Jeremy Irons’ blue-blood elocution; Jeremy Irons telling insulin jokes
Makes me want to: read a book by Dominick Dunne
Candotti Take: “Glenn Close is great. I don’t know with who she didn’t sleep with at the academy that they don’t give her the Oscar.” / “She has been Close. But they Close-d her.”
Worth a watch/rewatch: Yes
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