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Actors: Traci Lords, Jeff Fahey, Brian Bloom, Maria Diaz
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Extramarital |
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Extramarital stars Traci Lords (Blade, The Tommyknockers, Epicenter) as struggling writer/journalist Elizabeth, who is working hard to catch her big break. Elizabeth goes on a trip to get an interview and botches it. When she gets back her boss gets on her case to finish her stories. He wants a fifth story for the magazine and gives Elizabeth two weeks to work on it. When Elizabeth went on her trip she made a friend Ann (Maria Diaz) and calls her up. Ann starts telling Elizabeth about her wonderous affair she is having. With this info Elizabeth starst working on her story, chasing her dream of catching her break while at the same time dealing with her husband Eric (Jack Kerrigan) who just wants her to have a good paying job. One night before having sex, Ann sets up her cell phone so Elizabeth can hear the whole act. But Ann is murdered and Elizabeths answering machine wasnt working so well so the tape she got was muddled. This leads Elizabeth to go on the hunt for her story and proof that Ann was indeed murdered.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Extramarital |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Moderately Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 50%
Misc. Plotlets
- victim dies just after sex
Kind of mystery?
- amateur citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, straight (woman)
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- Slightly see-through clothes
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- San Francisco
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 (some)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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