The kind of modest film too often lost in the crowd of low-budget genre releases, this moody psychological thriller was first shown on Cinemax, then went to video as BEYOND DECEPTION before getting a limited theatrical release. On the surface, insurance salesman John Nolan (Jeff Goldblum) has an enviable life: a well-paid job, a smart, attractive girlfriend named Carol (Nancy Travis) and the trappings of middle-class success. Then fate steps in and shakes him till his eyeballs rattle. One minute, John's buying a bottle of wine, the next he's face down on the floor and some hopped-up punk with a gun is screaming for money. John comes through the robbery unscathed, but...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
108 mins