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PRAYING
MANTIS
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1993
Jane
Seymour ....
Linda Crandell
Barry Bostwick .... Don McAndrews
Chad Allen .... Bobby McAndrews
Frances Fisher .... Betty
Colby Chester .... Agent Johnson
Michael MacRae .... Agent Broderick
Anne Schedeen .... Karen
John Martin (V) .... Sam Winslow
John Knotts .... Captain Stringer
Sherri Jensen .... Kate
Kathleen Randall .... Pratt
Barbara Kite .... Mother
Mariah Milner .... Daughter
Roger Welch .... Bellboy
James
Keach - Director
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An effective thriller as we watch the mysterious
Linda Crandall (Seymour) shift identities
and draw husband No. 6 into her web, setting
him up for her typical wedding night dose
of venom, usually arsenic.
Her motive is murky, but it clearly has something
to do with a miserable childhood that ruined
her concept of men for good. Mysterious background
Seymour plays Linda as a rather introverted
writer of romance novels who becomes involved
with Don (Barry Bostwick), a widower who runs
a chain of bookstores.
Don is a little confused when he can't find
any of Linda's novels in print, but she explains
it away by telling him she writes under several
pen names, but would rather he not read any
of her potboilers. More suspicious is Don's
sister-in-law, Betty (Frances Fisher), a recovering
alcoholic who begins to doubt Linda's cover
story when she mistakenly identifies Anna
Karenina as the author of a famous novel rather
than a character in one. Don's 17-year-old
son (Chad Allen) also has his suspicions,
which multiply rapidly when Linda keeps trying
to fix him little "snacks" that taste funny. |
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