
30-year-old hardworking Bobby Grady is married with two children, and his marriage to frigid Amy is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work the night shift at a fashion-design studio whose owner believes that his talented, introspective designed Joanna Crane is selling his designs to competitors. Bobby accepts the job to make money and please Amy with a bathtub. Following Joanna after-hours, he discovers her double life, working as $50-hooker China Blue in the red-light district,... (Full plot summary below)
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30-year-old hardworking Bobby Grady is married with two children, and his marriage to frigid Amy is in crisis. Bobby is invited to work the night shift at a fashion-design studio whose owner believes that his talented, introspective designed Joanna Crane is selling his designs to competitors. Bobby accepts the job to make money and please Amy with a bathtub. Following Joanna after-hours, he discovers her double life, working as $50-hooker China Blue in the red-light district, satisfying her clients' fantasies with kinky sex. Bobby becomes obsessed with China Blue, and when the true thieves are found, he has sex with her and thinks he's in love with her. Meanwhile, insane preacher Rev. Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins) decides to save Joanna's soul and stalks her everywhere.
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| Washington PostRita KempleyRussell’s wild style and shameless exhibitionism places it on a par with the contemporary work of Brian De Palma in terms of its vicious satire of ‘80s kitsch and repression. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyThe divine madness of Ken Russell is in full bloom here. |
| Alternate EndingTim BraytonAn extraordinary sensory experience... it becomes more like an Expressionist depiction of sex than a straightforward realist narrative. |
| Washington PostPaul Attanasio...Turner retains the sleekness she laminated onto "Body Heat," with added nuance and style. |
| NewsweekJack KrollFOR all their extravagance, Ken Russell's films have never lacked exuberance or humor, which makes the flat, joyless tone of Crimes of Passion a surprise. Much of this is attributable to a screenplay by Barry Sandler filled with smutty double-entendres and weighty ironies. Only intermittently does Mr. Russell break through with the kind of manic flamboyance that is so singularly and rudely his own. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordThe film is deeply flawed, and sodden with sexual moralism. But amid Hollywood products pasteurized from demographics and screening groups, the idiosyncratic vision of Ken Russell is a refreshing breath of foul air. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertGood performances and an interesting idea are metamorphosed into one of the silliest movies in a long time. |
| DVDLaserDouglas PrattThe satire is too awfully confused about the differences between sex and love to be making profound or ironic statements about the nature of romance. |
| User ReviewMurphy HLove this movie! Always loved Kathleen Turner. Was in a Video store in the late 80's and saw a cover that caught my eye. It had her name on it but I had never heard of it. Rented it and ended up renting it so many times that the owner of the store ended up giving it to me! The kind of movie that will make very few favorite lists, but for me it is perfect. Very campy and raunchy and has a style to it all it's own. I was lucky enough to meet Miss Turner once. Someone asked her what was her favorite movie she had made.. she said Crimes of Passion. She said Ken Russel gave her the freedom to take the role where ever she wanted to. |
| User ReviewNguyen Thuy HUp there with Showgirls. That is among the highest compliments that I can pay to a film already. |