Mirage (1995 film)

Mirage
Mirage
Directed by	Paul Williams
Written by	James Andronica
Starring	Edward James Olmos; Sean Young
Cinematography	Susan Helen Emerson
Edited by	Stephen Eckelberry
Music by	David Campbell
Release date	1995;
Country	United States
Language	English

Mirage is a 1995 action-thriller film directed by Paul Williams and starring Edward James Olmos and Sean Young.^[1]^{[self-published source]}^[2]^[3]

Plot edit

There's this detective dude who's hired to follow some guy's wife because she keeps getting herself into trouble. She suffers from severe headaches and loss of memory. She never seems to know what's going on. It turns out she has a split personality and the second personality is the one getting her in trouble.

Cast edit

Edward James Olmos as Matteo Juarez
Sean Young as Jennifer Gale
James Andronica as Lt. Richie Randazzo
Paul Williams as Donald Gale
Sayed Badreya as Sayed
Eric Morris as The Police Captain
Susan Helen Emerson as Miranda Randazzo
William Grillo as Carmine Randazzo
Tony King as Nude Bar Tall Thug

Reception edit

Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote that "Alfred Hitchcock deserves better than the atrocious homage he gets in Paul Williams' Mirage, an incoherent thriller that can't decide whether to slavishly copy Hitchcock's Vertigo or make a satire out of it. Preposterous plotting and radical changes in tone dictate the fate of this routine B picture as straight-to-video. Closing-night selection of the Palm Springs Film Festival was greeted with laughter and sneers by a bewildered audience."

J. R. Taylor of Entertainment Weekly said that "Ultimately, all this convolution leads to a cliffside climax so amusingly absurd it's worth the rental fee."

References edit

^ J. Michael Dlugos (2000). Mr. Mikey's Video Views; Volume One. Trafford Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1552123162.
^ Horst Schäfer, Walter Schobert. Fischer Film Almanach. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997. p. 275.
^ Emanuel Levy (January 22, 1995). "Review: 'Mirage'". Variety. Retrieved 9 June 2015.