Poison (2000) (TV)

User Rating:

3.0/10   

Director:

Dennis Berry

Writers:

Andreas Grünberg (written by) &
Dennis Berry (written by)

Release Date:

4 April 2000 (Germany)

Genre:

Thriller | Mystery

Tagline:

Innocent until proven deadly.

Plot:

Traci is a devious teenage girl who befriends and kills anyone who comes between her and her mother, Dana, a failed movie actress who lies for and protects Traci.

Plot Keywords:

Bra Less Teen | See Through Swimsuit | Sex | Boarding School | Nipples Visible Through Clothing

Cast

Rosanna Arquette	...	Dana
Jürgen Prochnow	...	Carl Krieger
Mandy Schaffer	...	Traci
Michael Des Barres	...	Evan Lazlo
Suzanne Coy	...	Carmen
Mark Humphrey	...	David
Stacy Grant	...	Mary Collins
Thomas Kretschmann	...	Johnny Krieger
James Leard	...	Sheriff
Glenn Hallworth	...	PR Man
Chris Kent	...	Judge
Patrick Philips	...	Lawyer
Miki Rusu	...	Dancing Girl
Dan Rae	...	Doctor
Pauline Gaete	...	Traci's Friend

Also Known As:

Das blonde Biest - Wenn Mutterliebe blind macht (Germany)
Tease (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality, violence and language.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Canada | Germany | USA

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Germany:12 | USA:R | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

BLT Productions

Without Rosanna Arquette this movie would have been 1/10.

A truly, truly dire Canadian-German co-production, the ever-wonderful Rosanna Arquette plays an actress whose teenage daughter redefines the term "problem child" - a few uears prior to the "action" the child murdered her father, and mum took the fall for the offspring. Now she's moved up to the Northwest US to start over, but her child still has a problem in that she's devoted to her mother. So devoted in fact that she kills anyone who might be seen as a threat to their bond.

Unfortunately Mandy Schaeffer (as the daughter) murders more than people - she delivers such a terrible performance that she also wipes out the movie, though the incoherent script, useless direction and appalling music (check out the saxophone the first time she displays her bikini-clad bod) don't help any; we're supposed to find her sexy and scary, but she fails on both counts. Almost completely unalluring and not even bad enough to be amusing (not to mention the fact that Arquette and Schaeffer don't really convince as mother and daughter), all condolences to Miss Arquette and Jurgen Prochnow, both of whom are worthy of far more than this, and both of whom (particularly Rosanna) are the only sane reasons for anyone to sit through this farrago.

One of the production companies is called Quality International Films - not since the three-hour "Love, Lies And Murder" (from Two Short Productions) has there been such a "You must be joking" credit.