Poison Ivy - Die tödliche Umarmung

Originaltitel: Poison Ivy

1992
16
1 Std. 33 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,4/10

20.787

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Drew Barrymore, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd, and Sara Gilbert in Poison Ivy - Die tödliche Umarmung (1992)

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1 Video

70 Fotos

Erotic Thriller Drama Thriller

Ein verführerischer Teenager freundet sich mit einem introvertierten Gymnasiasten an und gestaltet seinen Weg in das Leben ihrer wohlhabenden Familie.Ein verführerischer Teenager freundet sich mit einem introvertierten Gymnasiasten an und gestaltet seinen Weg in das Leben ihrer wohlhabenden Familie.Ein verführerischer Teenager freundet sich mit einem introvertierten Gymnasiasten an und gestaltet seinen Weg in das Leben ihrer wohlhabenden Familie.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,4/10

20.787

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Drew Barrymore failed to attend her first audition. Director Katt Shea wanted Drew for the part of Ivy, and arranged another audition which Drew Barrymore also failed to attend. After Shea spoke with Drew's agent and told her she was no longer interested in her for the lead, she pleaded with the director to give Drew another chance. Drew ended up auditioning at Shea's home, not knowing that the director had already decided she had the job.

Patzer
At the start of the film, a dog has been run over by a car. To put it out of its misery, Ivy kills it. As she does, blood splashes on Sylvie's face. However, in the next shot, the blood is nowhere to be seen.

Zitate
Sylvie Cooper: The fact that Fred hated ever human except me really meant something.

Alternative Versionen
For the network TV version, an interminable amount of extraneous footage was added after Ivy and Sylvie get a ride home from the guy who puts Sylvie in the back of his truck. After knocking on the window, Sylvie turns around and the subjective camera catches blocks and blocks of trees and houses going by.

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Folks!/K2/One False Move/Poison Ivy/Leaving Normal (1992)

Soundtracks
Very First Lie
Written by Jim Ellison
Performed by Material Issue
Courtesy of Mercury Records
By Arrangement with Polygram Special Products

Benutzerrezensionen74

Ausgewählte Rezension

Better than it should be

By all rights this should have been yet another R-rated sex and violence flick about a piece of immoral jailbait having her wicked way with everyone around her, but the directing and acting are good enough to make it more effective than most, even touching. The atmosphere is almost haunting, and the relationships between the characters (especially the two teenage girl leads) are well developed enough to hold your interest.

Sara Gilbert gives the film a sympathetic center, she's excellent as a bright, likeable high school girl who finds herself in far over her head when she befriends poor little bad girl Drew Barrymore. Her misery and frustration as Barrymore takes over her family, her life, even her dog are moving enough to make the flimsy story work. Barrymore wasn't much of an actress at that age (still isn't, in my opinion), but she's very effective nonetheless. She doesn't need to act, she needs to do what she does, look sexy. Really, really sexy, like it's all she ever thinks about. Cheryl Ladd also does surprisingly well as Gilbert's slowly dying mother.

The movie also has moments of an almost haunting quality. The score is lovely, alternately passionate and strangely moody, and gives the film enough emotional intensity to make me forgive its many flaws. Even Barrymore kissing Gilbert. Eeeew.