Dangerous Game (1993 film)
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| Directed by | Abel Ferrara |
| Produced by | Mary Kane |
| Written by | Nicholas St. John |
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| Music by | Joe Delia |
| Cinematography | Ken Kelsch |
| Edited by | Anthony Redman |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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109 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Box office | $23,671 |
Dangerous Game (also known as Snake Eyes) is a 1993 Italian-American drama film directed by Abel Ferrara, written by Nicholas St. John, and starring Madonna, Harvey Keitel, and James Russo.
Utilizing a film-within-a-film format, the overall plot involves New York City-based director Eddie Israel directing actors Sarah Jennings and Frank Burns in a Hollywood marital-crisis drama, Mother of Mirrors, which is about a formerly wealthy but unemployed husband who berates his newly religious wife about what he considers her hypocritical aversion to their sex-and-drug lifestyle. During the shooting of that film, Israel becomes more and more demanding of his actors, growing increasingly obsessive with finding the ugly truths beneath the story's surface. All the while, his own carelessness and bad behavior with his own family begins to erode him and to corrode his marriage to Madlyn.
Dangerous Game opened in US theaters on November 19, 1993. In 2007, Ferrara recalled,
It was just another one of our films that never came out. But on that one, the audience didn't really like the film. Madonna killed it. The first impression people get on a movie is the one that never gets out of their mind. So after Madonna got so trashed for doing Body of Evidence, she thought she was going to beat the critics to the punch and badmouth the film. And she actually got good reviews. She never got a good review from the Voice or The New York Times in her life, but she got good reviews for this movie, which she came out and trashed. I'll never forgive her for it.
This was the first production by Madonna's Maverick Picture Company, a division of the newly formed entertainment company Maverick.
In Japan, the film was released under the name Body II as a sequel to Madonna's other 1993 film Body of Evidence which had previously been released as Body. Neither film is directly connected to each other in narrative nor storyline.
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