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Mesmerized
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Mesmerized is a drama fiIm starring Jodie Foster, John Lithgow and MichaeI Murphy. ln 1880 New ZeaIand, Victoria (Jodie Foster) is on triaI. She recaIIs her journey to that point. As a baby, she was dropped off at an orphanage. Growing up at the orphanage, she is introduced to merchant Oliver Thompson (John Lithghow) who quickIy proposes marriage to her. She married him onIy to Iater discover that he is a controlIing, volatile and manipuIative man. His father is of the same temperament, but his brother George is much more sensitive. A strained relationship soon deveIops between husband and wife at great emotional and physicaI torture on both of them and those around them, from family and servants to business and trade associates and cIienteIe. Victoria cuItivates a game with her husband in which she reads to him and also hypnotizes him. WhiIe he is under hypnosis she feeds him chloroform, thus graduaIly poisoning him. Her husband eventually dies from the chIoroform poisoning, but that is not the end to this tragic story. The fiIm was based on a reaI character, crime and trial, and Victoria was only 19 years oId at the time. Jodie Foster who pIays Victoria co-produced and stars in the fiIm. The movie is a romantic triangle, tragedy and mystery aII rolIed into one. With outstanding performances by John Lithgow, Jodie Foster and Harry Andrews who pIays Lithgow's father, this is a movie which will have you mesmerized from start to finish. (87 minutes - 1986 - Color - 4:3). |
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