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away. When Liz returns, a razor-wielding blonde confronts her; the blonde outside shoots and wounds the blonde inside, knocking the wig off and revealing the razor-wielding blonde as Dr. Elliott/Bobbi. The blonde who shot Bobbi is actually a female police officer, revealing herself to be the blonde who has been trailing Liz.
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wedding ring on the nightstand, she returns to retrieve it. The elevator doors open on the figure of a tall, blonde woman in dark sunglasses wielding a straight razor, who violently slashes Kate to death in the elevator. Upon discovering the body, Liz Blake, a high-priced call girl, notices the killer in the elevator's
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Police Detective Marino doubts Liz's story, partly because of her profession, so Liz partners with a revenge-minded Peter to find the killer, using a series of his homemade listening devices and time-lapse cameras to track patients leaving Elliott's office. They catch Bobbi on camera, and soon a tall
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Sexually frustrated housewife Kate Miller is attending therapy sessions with New York City psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott. During an appointment, Kate attempts to seduce him, but Elliott rejects her advances, stating his unwillingness to jeopardize his happy marriage. Kate has planned to spend the
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In a 2016 interview, De Palma said, "I don't know what the transgender community would think ... Obviously I realize that it's not good for their image to be transgender and also be a psychopathic murderer. But I think that passes with time. We're in a different time." He added that he was "glad"
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stated of De Palma that "his timing is so great that when he wants you to feel something he gets you every time. His thriller technique, constantly refined, has become insidious, jewelled. It's hardly possible to find a point at which you could tear yourself away from this picture." Gary Arnold of
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also gave it three stars out of four, writing that there were scenes "that are as exciting and as stylish as any ever put on film. Unfortunately, a good chunk of the film is a whodunit, and its mystery is so easy to solve that we merely end up watching the film's visual pyrotechnics at a distance,
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The pair scheme to learn Bobbi's birth name by infiltrating Dr. Elliott's office. Liz baits the therapist by stripping to lingerie and flirting with him, distracting him long enough to briefly exit and look through his appointment book. Peter is watching through the window when a blonde pulls him
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Hours later, Kate awakens and decides to discreetly leave while the man, Warren Lockman, is asleep. Kate sits at his desk to leave him a note and finds a document indicating that Warren has contracted both syphilis and gonorrhea. Shocked, she leaves the apartment, but having hastily forgotten her
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dispenses liberally, however, is sophomoric soft-core pornography, vulgar manipulation of the emotions for mere sensation, salacious but inept dialogue that is a cross between comic-strip Freudianism and sniggering double entendres, and a plot line so full of holes to be at best a dotted line".
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Two versions of the film exist in North America, an R-rated version and an unrated version. The unrated version is around 30 seconds longer and shows more pubic hair in the shower scene, more blood in the elevator scene (including a close-up shot of the killer slitting Kate's throat), and more
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premiered in Los Angeles and New York City on July 25, 1980. The film grossed $ 3,416,000 in its opening weekend from 591 theatres and improved its gross the following weekend with $ 3,640,000 from 596 theatres. It grossed a total of $ 31.9 million at the U.S. box office, and was the 21st
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called the film "witty, romantic," and "very funny, which helps to defuse the effect of the graphically photographed violence. In addition, the film is, in its own inside-out way, peculiarly moral." His review added that "The performers are excellent, especially Miss Dickinson."
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wrote, "This elegant new murder thriller promises to revive the lagging summer box office and enhance De Palma's reputation as the most exciting and distinctive manipulator of suspense since Alfred Hitchcock." In his movie guide,
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where she unexpectedly flirts with a mysterious stranger. Kate and the stranger stalk each other through the museum until they finally wind up outside, where Kate joins him in a taxi. They go to his apartment and have sex.
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Elliott escapes from the asylum after strangling a nurse, stalks Liz to Peter's house, and slashes her throat. She wakes up screaming and Peter rushes to her side, letting her realize it was merely a nightmare.
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is an exercise in style, not narrative; it would rather look and feel like a thriller than make sense, but DePalma has so much fun with the conventions of the thriller that we forgive him and go along."
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declared "Despite some major structural weaknesses, the cannily manipulated combination of mystery, gore and kinky sex adds up to a slick commercial package that stands to draw some rich blood money."
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was offered the role of Robert Elliott and was enthusiastic about it, but declined because of previous commitments. Connery later worked with De Palma on the 1987 Oscar-winning adaptation of
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day with her teenage son Peter, an inventor, but he has to cancel as he has reached a critical point in his research for his entry to the city's science fair. Thus, Kate goes alone to the
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campus, distributing leaflets against the film, condemning what they saw as a depiction of violence against women as entertainment. During the film's initial release, the activist group
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stars out of four, calling it a "High-tension melodrama", and stating "De Palma works on viewers' emotions, not logic, and maintains a fever pitch from start to finish." He also praised
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blonde in sunglasses starts stalking Liz, subsequently making several attempts on her life. Peter thwarts one of them in the New York City Subway by spraying Bobbi with homemade Mace.
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patient. Bobbi taunts the psychiatrist for ending their therapy sessions, apparently because Elliott refuses to sign the necessary papers for Bobbi to undergo
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is apparent within seconds of its opening gliding shot; it is a sustained work of terror—elegant, sensual, erotic, bloody, a directorial tour de force."
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explicit dialogue from Liz during the scene in Elliott's office. These scenes were trimmed when the MPAA originally gave the film an X rating.
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based on 55 reviews, with an average rating of 6.70/10. The consensus states, "With arresting visuals and an engrossingly lurid mystery,
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Pet of the Year model Victoria Lynn Johnson. De Palma has referred to the elevator killing as the best murder scene he has ever done.
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was a box office success in the United States, grossing over $ 30 million. It received largely favorable reviews, and critic
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The naked body in the opening scene, taking place in a shower, was not that of Angie Dickinson, but of 1977
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released separate deluxe Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film on September 8, 2015. On October 25, 2022,
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that the film had become "a favorite of the gay community," which he attributed to its "flamboyance".
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distributed a leaflet, arguing that "The distorted image of a psychotic male transvestite makes all
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awarded the film three stars out of four, stating "the museum sequence is brilliant" and adding: "
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Casting Might-Have-Beens: A Film by Film Directory of Actors Considered for Roles Given to Others
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The film led to controversy and protests upon its release. When the film was screened, Iowa City
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magazine proclaimed it "the first great American movie of the '80s". Dickinson won the
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and members of other feminist organizations picketed the film as it was shown on the
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to play Kate Miller, but she declined because of the violence. He also approached
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stylishly encapsulates writer-director Brian De Palma's signature strengths." On
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Dr. Elliott receives a bizarre message on his answering machine from "Bobbi", a
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magazine proclaimed the film "the first great American movie of the '80s."
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in a lineage of slasher movies that perpetuate the transphobic myth that
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nomination for New Star of the Year, as well as an inaugural first-year
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Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978–1986
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appear sick and dangerous." Numerous critics have since placed
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Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability.
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Index


Brian De Palma
George Litto
Michael Caine
Angie Dickinson
Nancy Allen
Ralf D. Bode
Gerald B. Greenberg
Pino Donaggio
Filmways Pictures
erotic
psychological
thriller film
Brian De Palma
Michael Caine
Angie Dickinson
Nancy Allen
prostitute
Keith Gordon
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho
David Denby
New York
Saturn Award
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award
Golden Raspberry Award
Metropolitan Museum of Art
convex mirror
transgender

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