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      Power, Passion & Murder

      1983 1h 44m Drama List
      Reviews 20% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score An illicit love affair ruins a rising starlet's career in 1930s Hollywood. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member This TV movie adaptation of a John O'Hara story aired as an episode of "Great Performances", which would lead you to believe that it might actually be good. Michelle Pfeiffer stars as a Hollwood actress in the 30's who starts an affair with a married man. Although the valiantly try to make you believe it's the 1930's, there's something about shooting on video that renders the attempt unconvincing. Oddly enough, the DVD release of this intersperses it with a completely unrelated episode also set in Hollywood in the 30's starring Darren McGavin and Steven Bauer. Neither story is interesting enough to justify more than 30 minutes of your time. Interspersing them just serves to confuse the viewer. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Presently I've been watching it. not all the way through at once, and it's been an interesting film. Michelle's role is a small one of a starlet who is alone and looking for love, or a man at least. Sadly her found man is not what she'd like him to be. There are actors whom I recognize, if not by name then by face. I still haven't finished watching it, I was so tired last night after enjoying The Muppetts, but it seems a decent film with Pfeiffer, Stella Stevens and other recognizable faces. I have watched the whole film now, much later, and it was worth seeing but mostly for its "insider look" at Hollywood and the filmmaking industry. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member Boredom is the least of this movie's problems. The section of the film known as "A Table at Ciro's" - though it smacks of rushed made-for-TV movie quality - still has a lot to like about it, notably Darren McGavin and Kenneth McMillan's performances as two washed-up Hollywood heavy hitters trying desperately to hang onto past glories. Sure, there were problems, primarily a badly constructed romance between McGavin's character's wife (Lois Chiles) and a Rudolph Valentino-style Latin lothario (Steven Bauer) and a load of bad dialogue, but it was still charming. However, the train that is "Power, Passion, and Murder" goes off the rails when the story switches - rapidly and with little warning - to the woes of promising young actress Natica Jackson (Michelle Pfeiffer) as she engages in an affair with an unhappily married man with tragic consequences. Nevermind that the romance is pathetic and chemistry-free; around this time, the post-synchronization of the dialogue and the physical quality of the film itself deteriorates so much that it makes "Power" basically unwatchable, and not just because of the putrid melodrama onscreen. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A tragic Hollywood romance based on a John O'Hara story. Good cast Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member crazy and funny as hell Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis An illicit love affair ruins a rising starlet's career in 1930s Hollywood.
      Director
      Paul Bogart, Leon Ichaso
      Production Co
      Desert Flower Filmproductions
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 25, 2018
      Runtime
      1h 44m