Perfect Prey (1998) (TV)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Howard McCain

Writer (WGA):

Robert McDonnell (written by)

Release Date:

26 September 2003 (Finland)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A former Texas Ranger (McGillis) is recruited by a Houston police captain (Dern) to assist a homicide detective (Moffett) in the search for an elusive serial killer (David) who collects antique dolls.

Plot Keywords:

Serial Killer | Psychologist | Antique | Doll | Texas Ranger

Cast

Kelly McGillis	...	Audrey Macleah
Bruce Dern	...	Capt. Swaggert
D.W. Moffett	...	Detective Jimmy Cerullo
David Keith	...	Dwayne Alan Clay
Joely Fisher	...	Elizabeth Crane
Richard Riehle	...	Detective Bevlan
Gregg Daniel	...	Detective Footman
Mike Kennedy	...	Captain Feagler
Tichina Arnold	...	Susie
Marklen Kennedy	...	Investigator Lyons
C.C. Pulitzer	...	Janette Leary
Nicole Forester	...	Patricia Atkins
Judith Drake	...	Waitress
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maree Cheatham	...	Mrs. Leary
Thomas Crawford	...	Deputy #2
Dan Desmond	...	Mr. Leary
Javier Grajeda	...	Deputy #1
Michael Dean Jacobs	...	Doug Purcell
Steven Jang	...	Houston Cop
Judy Kain	...	Marianne
Shareen Mitchell	...	Lady #1 (as Shareen J. Mitchell)
Senta Moses	...	Lady #3
Clayton Murray	...	Harlan Evans 10
Miguel Nájera	...	Morgue Attendant
Skip O'Brien	...	Guard
Eric Poppick	...	Antique Shop owner
Stacy Sullivan	...	Lady #2

Also Known As:

When the Bough Breaks II: Perfect Prey (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

Brazil:99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12

Company:

Meeker/Greene Entertainment Inc.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: The Texas flag in the Ranger Captain's office is upside down.

Movie Connections:

Follows When the Bough Breaks (1993)

Tough McGillis

I saw Kelly McGillis in "Witness" back in 1985, and I did not like that movie much, and I never have seen anything else that she was in since then. But I remembered that she was a beautiful lady. I recently saw Perfect Prey on Cable T.V., and after a while it dawned on me that the incredibly weather-beaten, lanky, square-bodied Detective was Kelly McGillis! WOW! What happened?? Kelly McGillis looks like SPOCK if he had been muscle-toned and in great shape! PERFECT PREY was made in 1998, only 13 years after WITNESS, and yet it looks like a totally different Kelly McGillis! She looks like a middle-aged man. However the movie is very good. McGillis tracks down some Serial Killer of women who is also a ceramic doll collector! The plot and the pace of the movie follow a standard formula for Detective Murder-Mysteries; and this movie delivers a solid formulaic story. It is a good mystery movie. McGillis' acting is much better than it was in WITNESS (which was the last movie I saw with her in it) and she gives a very strong and a very credible performance. Her odd manly look makes her vulnerable character very sympathetic and believable. PERFECT PREY is a good movie with a strong atmosphere of suspense and mystery.