The business of strangers movie

Although the movie goes overboard and lacks the symmetry and lethal bite of. The business of strangers trailer 2001 video detective. The business of strangers has been described as a variation on in the company of men, from a female perspective, and it certainly shares with neil labutes film a. What a pleasure to watch stockard channing in this film. Trapped in an airport hotel, she wants to celebrate but finds only the company of her young assistant, paula murphy. Two businesswomen bond and reveal their inner natures while getting carried away on a revenge attack against an accused rapist. The business of strangers was the first feature from writer and director patrick stettner. Prey at night is being touted as based on true events, but as far as i can tell, it still only draws from what inspired the strangers. Im not generally a huge fan of movies with twoor threeperson casts they tend to resemble filmed plays but the business of strangers is a knockout. The range of emotions she undergoes playing julie, an over the hill, frustrated and angry woman, who perhaps has been overlooked by her employers, like so many other women with a lot of qualifications, too many times. As the story goes along we find that there is a lot more to this. I really enjoyed this movie, so i decided to get the dvd. Find wife business trip sex videos for free, here on. Its never a good sign when a movie racks up its first ironic music cue before there is anything to be ironic about.

Because the movies ambitions are ultimately both vague and fairly limited, its most interesting passage is almost certainly this halfhour in which julie and paula. The business of strangers movie trailer and videos tv guide. Watch the latest the business of strangers trailer on video detective. A business woman and her assistant decide to take revenge on a man that the assistant said had raped a friend of hers. The filmmakers seem unconcerned about appealing to anyone who isnt a 9year old boy. This is precisely the sort of muddled, pc, goodtaste, almostangry feminist issue movie that gives the mainstream a bad name.

But i have loved stockard channing since the girl most likely to and. The business of strangers is about the world of those women jockeying their lives in the phallocentric spheres of our society. Perhaps i am one of the few no bluray is available. Stockard channing, julia stiles, frederick weller, mary testa, jack hallett, marcus giamatti, buddy fitzpatrick, salem ludwig. Financial analysis of the business of strangers 2001 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. Released december 7th, 2001, the business of strangers stars stockard channing, julia stiles, frederick weller, mary testa the r movie has a runtime of about 1. Julie styron channing is a middleaged businesswoman flying out of town to attend an important meeting. The business of strangers starts as a merciless dissection of a highpowered business executive, turns into a confrontation between two styles of being a tough woman, and ends as an upmarket version of a pam grier revenge melodrama. The faint praise i can offer the business of strangers is that the writerdirector, patrick stettner, making his feature debut, shows a smidgen more humanity than. Two women on different ends of the spectrum of corporate power come together with explosive results in this drama. The business of strangers starts as a merciless dissection of a highpowered business executive, turns into a confrontation between two. Highlights from the movie the business of strangers shot by director of photography teodoro maniaci. With stockard channing, julia stiles, frederick weller, mary testa.