Title:
Second to Die
Released: 2001
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Tagline:
Sara Morgan (Erika Eleniak) thought her new husband's
money would make her happy. She was dead wrong.
Comments:
Interesting
Thriller. I have to give Erica Eleniak credit: she
really is trying hard to shed her early career as
'eye candy' and take on more challenging and serious
roles. Hollywood being what it is, she still spends
a lot of time in this movie scantilly clad...but also
delivers a performance of real depth as a party girl
who married for money only to find herself trapped
in a loveless marriage. When she starts to plot to
have her husband killed, things start to go terribly
wrong. The movie uses an unusual framing devise in
having the action related in a series of flashbacks
from the dead woman's diary as it is being read by
her younger sister (also Eleniak). Paul Winfield also
delivers a solid performance as an aging cop, somewhat
similar to that of Gene Hackman's aging cop in the
movie 'Falling Down'. While not exactly a masterpiece,
and utilizing plot devises that have cropped up many
times in other movies, the quality of the cast and
the dead-on solid performance by Eleniak combine to
lift this film over its B-movie cliches!Recomended.
Cast
overview:
Erika Eleniak .... Sara Morgan
Jerry Kroll .... Raymond 'Scooch' Scucello
Colleen Camp .... Cynthia
Kimberly Rowe .... Amber
John Wesley Shipp .... Jim Bratchett
Jf Pryor .... Zed
Amy Beth Reece .... Det. McCoury (as Amy Reece)
Paul Winfield .... Detective Grady
Margaret Avery .... Insurance Agent
Jackie O'Brien .... Thelma
Brooke Davis .... Nikki Bratchett
Rebecca Reese .... Jasmine
Marshall R. Teague .... Captain Burris (as Marshall
Teague)
Lorna Scott .... Acting Coach
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