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Synopsis: Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Joseph Ruben
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
R
Year:
1991
99 min
1,068 Views


We've gotta have another boat,

and a helicopter.

- Get back on the radio, please!

- Object sighted on the port bow!

- There's something out there! See it?

- There's something out there!

- Let's go!

- Can you see what it is?

Laura!

We shall all come together once more

in God's gracious love and warm embrace,

for it is promised that whoever liveth

and believeth in me shall never die.

Amen.

Laura!

Laura!

Laura!

That was the night that I died,

and someone else was saved.

Someone who was afraid of water,

but learned to swim.

Come on, Laura!

Someone who knew there would be

one moment when he wouldn't be watching.

Someone who knew that the darkness

from the broken lights would show the way.

Good mornin'.

Don't you like green?

I don't have a red one left.

Come on. I got plenty.

You visitin' out here?

My mom's by herself in a nursing home.

She's blind

and can't move her left side very well.

She had a stroke.

I'm sorry to hear that.

You live back East?

I was visiting an old friend.

She needed me.

Sick, was she?

Course, it's none of my business.

She left her husband.

He was a horrible man. He used to beat her.

- No!

- It started right after their honeymoon.

At first he was charming, tender.

But it all changed.

He said if she left him he would punish her,

and he meant it.

His punishments were terrible.

He would never let her go.

Said he could find her anywhere.

Couldn't she call the police?

Well, she did.

She called them, and a lawyer too.

They said she could make a citizen's arrest,

get a restraining order. It was pathetic.

Well, how did she leave?

She risked everything.

Escaped.

Started a new life.

Brave girl.

She thinks she's a coward.

A coward?

Not a girl like that.

How long did you stay with him?

Too long.

Three years, seven months,

six days.

Thank you for the apple.

Hi. I'm Iris Nepper.

So glad you could come today.

The house has some great possibilities.

I think you'd like it.

- How much is it again?

- 700.

Plus first and last month's deposit,

Miss Walters.

Waters.

700...

- I'm gonna take it.

- Good.

" When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way

" From your first cigarette

to your last dyin' day

" When you're a Jet, you're a thing...

" The Jets are in gear,

our cylinders are clickin'

" A lousy chicken

" Here come the Jets, yeah!

And we're gonna be, yeah!

" When you're a Jet, you stay a Jet!

Sh*t!

Harvest time?

You know,

people get arrested for stealing in this town.

They were on the ground.

They're all damaged and bruised.

Bruised?

OK, well, not that one.

They all look pretty good to me.

This is unlawful trespass, you know.

It's just a few apples to bake a pie.

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Ronald Bass

Ronald Bass (born March 26, 1942), sometimes credited as Ron Bass, is an American screenwriter. Also a film producer, Bass's work is characterized as being highly in demand, and he is thought to be among the most highly paid writers in Hollywood. He is often called the "King of the Pitches".[citation needed] In 1988, he received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Rain Man, and films that Bass is associated with are regularly nominated for multiple motion picture awards. more…

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