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The oncologist wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child unaware of what - or who - is. Brian De Palma Distributor.

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By Mark Salisbury Posted on 01 01 2000.

. The movie ends with Jenny and Amy in a park. RAISING CAIN De Palmas first suspense film in several years opened at theaters last weekend. The oncologist wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child unaware of what - or who - is really going on inside his head.

Raising Cains finale takes place at a three-story motel in a driving rainstorm. Raising Cain 1992 out of 4 Jenny Lolita Davidovich believes that her husband Carter John Lithgow is the perfect man but what she doesnt realize is that his father messed with his mind a little too much and now his past is going to come back and haunt him. Cinematographer Stephen Burum who had previously worked with De Palma on Body Double and The Untouchables does a beautiful job behind the camera whether finding the dreamy soft-focus romance of the early scenes uncovering the creepy side of an otherwise innocuous playground.

With her daughter Amy. Following the near merciless critical. First things first Raising Cain is a supremely absurd movie.

Directed by Brian De Palma. Raising Cain Movie Review They movie exhibits that boys are being brought up to be rugged and strong and they are raised to lack emotions. Raising Cain movie reviews Metacritic score.

The documentary depicts that schools in United States promote that girlish behavior is the benchmark and boys in the schooling system are considered as defective girls. Raising Cain doesnt rank with Brian De Palmas best work but John Lithgows spellbinding split-personality performance makes this thriller hard to dismiss. RAISING CAIN movie poster 1992 Universal Pictures Stars.

There is an elevator a glistening blade a man dressed as a woman a pram and an endangered child. R ather than attempt to stay way ahead of the audience Brian De Palmas thrillers are usually one step aside youthe better to lull you into admiring the scenery before guiding you smack into the seedy part of town. With John Lithgow Lolita Davidovich Steven Bauer Frances Sternhagen.

Director Brian De Palma returns to his Hitchcockian roots with the suspense thriller RAISING CAIN. The oncologist wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child unaware of what - or who - is. A movie so crazy so cheerfully over-the-top and so blatant in its homagesrip-offs its hard not to just lay back and have fun with it.

Brian De Palmas RAISING CAIN was always a very disappointing movie to me because I felt it had so much. Raising Cain movie reviews Metacritic score. The film stars John Lithgow as Carter a crazed psychologist and Lolita Davidovich recently the psychologist in BASIC INSTINCT as his wife.

REVIEWED By Steve. It has moments of melodrama which border on camp and feel more like something out of a movie from the 1950s than the 1990s. While Jenny begs for Nix Sr.

Director Brian De Palmas eagerly awaited return to the psycho thriller genre that helped make him famous perfectly underscores. Ultimately the reason the final shot is so perversely effective is because of its absence of transference. There is a lot of other stuff to love in Raising Cain as well.

Starring John Lithgow Lolita Davidovich Steven Bauer Frances Sternhagen Gregg Henry. For example a coroner explains that a. When it opens she sees Dr.

This review of Raising Cain 1992 was written by Brian G on 20 November 2010. John Lithgow Lolita Davidovich Steven Bauer Frances Sternhagen WriterDirector. The film stars John Lithgow as Carter Nix a child psychologist who is manipulated by his twin brother Cain and their father into kidnapping children including his own daughter for the fathers perverse psychological experiments.

Amy plays alone while Jenny chats with another mother. Shortly afterward Jack arrives with the police and CarterCainMargo disappears. Raising Cain Near the end theres a scene on a motel balcony that features the following elements.

A schizoid psychopath who has. Raising Cain 1992 R 91 min. Directed by Brian De Palma.

To give back her daughter CarterCainMargo stabs their father from behind.

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