Intermittently suspenseful and genuinely unsettling, DESPERATE MOTIVE is an exercise in sadistic enterprise that will leave you cancelling your plans for upcoming family reunions. With a more scrupulous avoidance of improbabilities this might have been a bone-chilling classic instead of
just a remarkably nasty psycho-thriller.
Too busy for his wife and child, and too trusting for his own good, advertising executive Richard Sullivan (William Katt) welcomes the unannounced visit of his cousin Harry (David Keith) whom he hasn't seen since childhood. Accompanying smooth-talking Harry is Connie (Marg Helgenberger), his
pill-popping fiancee, who develops an unnatur...
Released:
1993
Rated:
R
Length:
n/a