Title:
Monkey's Mask, The
Released: 2000
Genre: Crime /
Thriller / Mystery
Runtime: 93 min
Country: Australia
/ Canada / France / Italy / Japan
Language: English
Tagline:
No evidence just a smell of sex and violence.
Plot
Summary: Jill Fitzpatrick is a 28-year
old, street-smart, out-of-work private investigator
wishing she wasn't celibate. Eager for the taste of
adrenaline, she accepts a job investigating the disappearance
of Mickey, a young female student. Jill quickly strikes
a spark with the seductive Diana, Mickey's poetry
lecturer. But it is not long before Mickey's strangled
body is found. Distrusting the cops, Mickey's grief-stricken
parents ask Jill to find her murderer. Jill is soon
hurled into a passionate liaison with Diana as she
enters the surprisingly seamy underworld of Mickey's
life, looking for clues to her murder. For whom did
Mickey write her sexually charged poems? What is the
connection between Mickey and her two favorite poets?
Who is leaving threatening messages in verse on Jill's
answering machine? Blinded by her passion, Jill is
compromised in her search for the truth - until her
own life is in danger.
Comments:
I
like Porter. Caught this on cable last night and I've
decided that I like Susie Porter very much - she's
got an incredibly expressive face (along with her
adorable body, which we get to see a LOT of) and she
was thoroughly convincing as the p.i. trying to solve
the murder of a teenage poet while falling in love
with the poet's teacher (Kelly McGillis, not quite
believable in her role but she still looked good with
Porter in the bathtub). Not very well-written or directed
either - it's too long, too self-conscious and too
convoluted - but it does have a certain style. . .and
it DOES have the very appealing and watchable Porter.
Scene
Description:
Susie Porter
and Kelly McGillis kissing each other and then they
lay down together in bed.
Scene
Description:
Susie
Porter giving us a nice look at her breasts while sitting
up in a bath tub.
Scene
Description:
Susie
Porter giving us a nice look at her breasts while sitting
up in a bath tub and reading a piece of paper.
