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918: 783: 462:), come to the diner to arrest her. Stephen tries to save her, taking her to his trailer. There she is horrified to find out that he has been following her. She shoots him with Stephen's revolver, although she doesn't realize that he had loaded it with blank cartridges. She flees and he follows her on a motorcycle. He catches up to her, but she crashes her car onto an ice-covered lake, breaking through the ice. He then quickly pulls her out of the car, but she is badly injured. Before she dies in his arms, she tells him, “I wish you love”. 442:) in an airport, the two become involved, fall in love and become engaged, and it looks like they might even live a happy life together. Stephen, who has witnessed all of this, is desperate to keep her from killing again. While the couple is on the way to the chapel for the wedding, Stephen shoots out one of their tires and the car crashes, killing Eris' fiancé. Stephen follows a grief-stricken Eris as she takes off for the desert. 434:, Eris commits yet another murder, enabling Stephen to finally corner her as he prepares to call for backup. Instead of turning her in, Stephen follows her in an effort to save her. He hallucinates constantly that his young daughter – whom he hasn't seen since his ex-wife took custody of her – is with him, and comes to think of Eris as a vulnerable, lost child. 457:
In Alaska, Stephen gains the courage to ask out Eris, as he is a frequent patron of the diner at which she waitresses. They have a few drinks in the evening, both getting emotional, and Eris mentions where she would like to be buried when she dies. She then says she has nothing to offer and that he
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Stephen follows her across the country and through several murders. He soon discovers that Eris and her father were very poor and that he had abandoned her, explaining her pathological hatred of men. When Eris helps a rich blind man
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so he can rape her while she is unconscious. Stephen arrives just in time to save Eris and gives Gary a thorough beating. Eris loses her unborn baby before fleeing to Alaska, with Stephen on her trail.
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whose current assignment is to track down the socialite son of his wealthy boss and find out what trouble he has gotten himself into. This leads him to Joanna Eris (
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in theaters, grossing $ 16.5 million domestically and $ 1.1 million internationally for a worldwide total of $ 17.6 million against a $ 35 million budget.
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The film received largely negative reviews, with critics panning the improbable and muddled plot, as well as Elliott's direction. On
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gave it a rating of "F" based on surveys from general audiences. It is notable for being the first film in over fifteen years since
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who is in a relationship with the son, whom she murders. Stephen is a witness to the crime.
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should leave her alone. The next day the police, as well as Eris's psychiatrist (
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Despite opening in the United States at number-one during the
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Stephan Elliott
Marc Behm
Nicolas Clermont
Ewan McGregor
Ashley Judd
Patrick Bergin
k.d. Lang
Jason Priestley
Geneviève Bujold
Marius de Vries
Village Roadshow Pictures
Behaviour Communications
MDP Worldwide
Seville Pictures
Universal Pictures
Destination Films
Roadshow Entertainment
mystery
thriller film
magical realism
Marc Behm
remake
Claude Miller
Deadly Circuit
adapted
Stephan Elliott
Ewan McGregor
Ashley Judd
international co-production

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