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Someone to Watch Over Me starring: Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Orbach, John Rubinstein directed by: Ridley Scott |
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780800123505 Format: Import, NTSC ISBN: 0800123506 Release Date: November 13, 1996 Theatrical Release Date: October 09, 1987 Related Items: Related Items:   see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: This stylish, smart 1987 movie stars Tom Berenger as a New York cop and family man who falls for the rich and beautiful witness (Mimi Rogers) he's assigned to protect. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) does something here he should be doing a lot more often: directing contemporary film noir with his eye for extraordinary art direction. Berenger and Rogers rise to the occasion, seemingly aware that they're making something special. --Tom Keogh Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - one of the classiest thrillers ever madeThis movie is fantastic. Mimi Rogers plays a wealthy socialate who witnesses a murder. The killer is after her. Tom Berenger plays a detective who along with two other detectives are assigned to protect her. He takes the night shift. He is married and has a son. He is impressed by Mimi Rogers upper class lifestyle, her beautiful apartment, classical music, she is a very classy lady. I must say Mimi Rogers was perfect for the part she is beautiful and carries herself so gracefully. Tom Berenger is a blue collar detective. The two actors have excellent chemistry. Tom Berenger is married. A romance begins with Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers. The killer is released on a mistake which was made for his ... Read More: Rating: - a smart, stylish, thrillerMimi Rogers plays a wealthy socialate who witnesses a brutal murder. Tom Berenger and two other detectives are to protect her in three different shifts. Tom Berenger gets the night shift. This movie shows the side of life that Mimi Roger's character brings to blue collar detective Tom Berenger. She introduces him to art, classical music, fancy parties. A romance develops. Tom Berenger is married and has a son. He is torn between his family life and the life he can live with Mimi Rogers. All this aside the murderer is after Mimi Rogers after he is released from jail. This movie is full of suspense and a classy thriller. Mimi Rogers was perfect for the part she looks beautiful. She and Tom Berenger have ... Read More: Rating:  - Window to the soulI have never seen another movie in which the actors were more capable of baring their souls with nothing more than the expression in their eyes. Bracco, Rodgers and Berenger 'spoke' far more than was scripted, leading us through the changes in relationships between the characters and the depth of feeling accompanying those changes without words. In most scenes concerning the confusion, pain, desperation and love which ties Mike, Ellie and Clair together, the spoken word was practically superfluous. Ridley Scott is a master at creating tangible atmosphere; I could feel the bite of the cold New York air and smell the aromas of the city; I could have wrapped the opulence of Clair's penthouse around me like a silk duvetyn. Mr. Scott is ... Read More: Rating: - Not a bad movie for a night in front of the TV...Personally speaking, I like a nice fairly straightforward thriller-type movie, with a little suspense, and a little romance, so this was up my ally! The characters were amazingly well-developed I thought, given the genre, and their situation was really compelling. Mimi Rogers was wonderful in her role-- not at all the "shallow" socialite stereotype, but a real person with real worries and real needs... Go ahead and check this one out if you're looking for a way to pass an evening! But get the DVD if you can, I found the VHS to be pretty low quality. Rating: - Good Date Movie.This movie somehow got overlooked in theatres, but there's no need to miss it now. Long story short: Rich socialite Mimi Rogers witnesses a mob hit and thus becomes a target. Tom Berenger is a blue-collar cop assigned to protect her. He is attracted to her, but is married (to Lorraine Bracco, playing the same character she always played before The Sopranos). Complicating matters is that she is attracted to him and the intense situation is constantly pushing them together. What sets "Someone..." apart from other movies with similar plots is that Bracco's character is pretty sympathetic so it's not a cut-and-dried issue. Berenger is drawn to Rogers because she is a vulnerable woman who needs protection. Bracco's character ... Read More: |
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