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Single
White Female (1992)
  
Director:
Barbet
Schroder |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Thriller/Drama |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
Enslig ung
kvinne |
RUNNING
TIME
107
minutes |
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Producer:
Barbet Schroder |
Screenwriter
(based on a book by Jon Lutz):
Don Roos |
Review
Fresh
from his hugely successful Reversal of Fortune,
Barbet Schroder turned to this downward-spiralling thriller about the
career-woman Fonda and her new roommate from hell, Leigh. The fine
acting and periodically intriguing script keeps the film alive early on,
even though Schroder's direction is bland and mundane. His film looks
good; it has great production values and wonderful sets, but at the
crucial plot turns, Schroder is surprisingly conventional and
uncreative. And screenwriter Don Roos rips the genre vault far too much
- especially towards the end when Single White Female descends to
a stock horror movie. The edge and suspense is present, but only for a
few moments at a time - such as when Hedra impersonates Allison on a
visit to Sam, or when Allison uses her shrewdness to uncover some of
Hedra's weaknesses. In contrast to your ordinary horror, both the leads
are complex and dual characters. It's just that Schroder too rarely
knows how to explore them.
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