Victim of Love (film)
| Victim Of Love | |
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Video release poster
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| Written by | Alison Rosenfeld James Desmarais |
| Directed by | Jerry London |
| Starring |
JoBeth Williams Pierce Brosnan Virginia Madsen |
| Theme music composer | Richard Stone |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Gary W. Goldstein Chad Cooperman Mireille Soria Bernie Goldmann |
| Cinematography | Billy Dickson |
| Editor(s) | Michael Brown |
| Running time | 98 minutes |
| Distributor | Artisan Home Video |
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Victim of Love is a 1991 psychological thriller film starring Pierce Brosnan, JoBeth Williams and Virginia Madsen. The film was originally produced for CBS Network but due to its popularity, steamy scenes were expanded and the film was given a PG-13 rating and re-released on DVD as Raw Heat by Lion's Gate/Artisan Home Video in September 2003. The movie was shot on location in Malibu, California.
Therapist Tess Parker (JoBeth Williams) meets Paul Tomlinson (Pierce Brosnan), an English professor she's wacky over, and he's also a guy that is too good to be true.
Her patient Carla (Virginia Madsen), comes to Tess to tell her about her former lover who wanted to marry her but needed some time after his wife's death, even though they started going out when he was still married. But after a year he left and never came back, only to tell her that he was with someone else. Tess tries to comfort Carla after she thought Carla was going to jump off the edge of a building. The descriptions Carla gives Tess of her former lover seem somewhat familiar, but not until the time Carla shows Tess book written by her former lover, that Tess realizes Carla is talking about Paul.
Tess eventually confronts Paul about this and he says that he knew her as a librarian, and the time Tess saw him hug her was to thank her for getting a 'hard to find' book for him. He says he had no relationship with her at all except sending her flowers to thank her for all her help with the book, and that he was not sleeping with her. Tess, believes him and they have a lovely, little snog. Carla shouts at Tess and drives away. Paul tells Carla to let her go.
The next day, Tess goes to Carla's apartment, finding the door open and Carla gone. Tess searches Carla's apartment finding an explicit love letter to Carla signed by Paul, which she takes. In the morning she is confronted at home by Carla who warns Tess that Paul killed his wife, and that he'd kill again.
Tess asks Paul about the letter and he says it is a missing letter he wrote to his wife. Tess asks Paul how his wife died, and Paul says she died in a hiking accident in the mountains. They had just had an argument and he went back to the cabin, so he wasn't there. The rangers said it looked like she slipped. Tess tell Paul that Carla said he killed his wife. He said they weren't the perfect couple by any means, but he loved her.
They go to Carla's place and find it in disarray, with blood in the kitchen. Paul send Tess away, while he calls the police.
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