Dangerous Game (1993)
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29% of critics liked it
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Celebrated indie filmmaker Eddie Israel (Harvey Keitel) heads to California to shoot his latest movie, Mother of Mirrors, an examination of a marriage in which the wife pressures her husband to abandon their formerly mutual sex-and-drugs lifestyle and seek the same kind of religious conversion she… More Celebrated indie filmmaker Eddie Israel (Harvey Keitel) heads to California to shoot his latest movie, Mother of Mirrors, an examination of a marriage in which the wife pressures her husband to abandon their formerly mutual sex-and-drugs lifestyle and seek the same kind of religious conversion she has experienced. Leaving behind his own wife Madlyn (Nancy Ferrara) and his young son, Eddie explains the impetus of his latest project in a series of behind-the-scenes interviews. Meanwhile, Sarah Jennings (Madonna), a TV actress, has taken the wife role in Eddie's film, and her first item of business on the set is to sleep with Francis Burns (James Russo), who is set to play her husband. Things go sour between the two players and their conflicts spill onto the set, adding even more tension to a shoot in which Eddie alternately bullies and cajoles his actors to elicit more authentic performances. Perhaps Eddie manipulates Sarah onscreen because he's ashamed of having bedded his "very L.A." star just minutes before his wife and son arrived early for a weekend visit. Eddie soon finds the existential dilemmas of his film seeping into his own life, forcing him to question the compulsive adultery he practices. One of the first movies overseen by the film arm of Maverick, the record label and media company Madonna founded in the early '90s, Dangerous Game was produced by the singer's longtime manager, Freddy de Mann, alongside Mary E. Kane, who produced several earlier Ferrara efforts. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
- Directed By
- Abel Ferrara
- Genres
- Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Nov 19, 1993 Wide
- On DVD
- Jul 26, 2005
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
One of [Ferrara's] most rewardingly challenging works.
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...an uncommonly interminable experience.
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Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
This twisted little trainwreck is amazing for the fact that it was ever even made.
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Spyder Darling, NY Rock
More dreadful than dangerous.
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James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette
Dreary drivel from Madonna's "arty" phase
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Cast
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Harvey Keitel
as Eddie Israel
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Madonna
as Sarah Jennings
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James Russo
as Francis Burns
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Nancy Ferrara
as Madlyn Israel
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Reilly Murphy
as Tommy
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Victor Argo
as Director of Photography
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Christina Fulton
as Blonde
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Dylan Hundley
as Party Guest
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Glenn Plummer
as Burns' Buddy
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Julie Pop
as Morton's Waitress
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John Snyder
as Party Guest
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Leonard Thomas
as Prop Guy
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Adina Winston
as Party Guest
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Lori Eastside
as Party Guest
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Hiram Ortiz
as Hair
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Bill Pope
as Camera Operator
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Anthony Redman
as Swinger
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Martin Schaer
as Camera Operator
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Jesse Long
as Script Supervisor
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Randall Sabusawa
as Producer
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Mindy Eshelman
as Wardrobe
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Noga Isackson
as 1st AD
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Linda Murphy
as Boom Operator
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Steven Albert
as Boxing Announcer
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Robyn B. Ashley
as Flight Attendant
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Lili Barsha
as Flight Attendant
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Heather Bracken
as Stewardess
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Marta Bukowski
as Video Tap Monitor
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Jim Fitzgerald
as 1st Assistant Cameraman
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Juliette Hohnen
as Bar Patron
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Niki Munroe
as Girl in Trailer
- Richard Belzer
