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Compromising Positions

1985, Movie, R, 98 mins

Compromising Positions: Review

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A lightweight but most enjoyable comedy-mystery, COMPROMISING POSITIONS concerns a bevy of wealthy Long Island wives and their involvement in a murder. When periodontist Joe Mantegna is found murdered, Susan Sarandon, a wife, mother, and one of the victim's patients, investigates the crime on her own, with an eye toward selling the story to the editor of the newspaper she used to work for. Looking deeper into her periodontist's life, she learns that he was married to Anne De Salvo and played around a great deal. As a matter of fact, Sarandon might have been the only female patient the late periodontist didn't sleep with. In talking with her best pals, Mary Beth Hurt and Judith Ivey, Sarandon learns that Mantegna not only slept with the women, he took nude photos of them as well, on the pretext that they would be loving memories of their liaisons--a revelation that leads Sarandon to conclude that any number of his patients could have committed the murder. Also investigating the case is police detective Raul Julia, whom Sarandon becomes attracted to during her sleuthing. Lots of funny moments, but the case itself is not as interesting as the richly detailed portrait of suburban wives. Ivey is uproarious as a philanderess who loves her husband but can't resist the feeling of the flesh of a new man. Based on screenwriter Susan Isaacs' first novel, the film is nearly undone by Frank Perry's lazy direction. Good performances from the entire cast, especially Sarandon, save the movie. leave a comment
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