MOVIES
'SINGLE WHITE FEMALE': DOUBLE TROUBLE
In "Single White Female," the psychological atmosphere that director Barbet Schroeder creates is so densely threatening that the air feels thick around you. Though Schroeder consciously evokes Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and Polanski's "Rosemary's Baby," the movie conjures up less noble precursors as well, in particular "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,"...
'UNFORGIVEN' SHOOTS PAST 'SINGLE WHITE FEMALE'
Clint Eastwood's Western Unforgiven shot 'em up at the weekend box office, earning $11.4 million for its second straight first-place showing.Single White Female, a thriller about roommates who don't get along, made $10.2 million in its debut for second place, Exhibitor Relations Co. said Monday. Among other new movies, the comedy Stay Tuned, starring John Ritter, was sixth with $3.5 million. And Diggstown, with Louis Gossett Jr. and James Woods, was No....
Single White Female: Actresses share chilling thrills
Chemistry translates to eerie times on `Single' set
Los Angeles - "Single White Female," Hollywood's latest psychological thriller (opening Friday), concerns Hedy (Jennifer Jason Leigh), an unhinged young woman still smarting from the childhood loss of her twin sister. When she moves in with a nominally more well-adjusted roommate, Hedy sees in Allison (Bridget Fonda) the sister she had but lost and strives to become just like her. She begins dressing like her, wearing her hair like her, pursuing the sort of...
ACTING`S ADMIRABLE IN SINGLE WHITE FEMALE`
The adulteress from hell, the nanny from hell, the cop from hell.. . . What`s next, the gerbil from hell?No, ``Single White Female`` is next. The latest in an apparently bottomless reserve of domestic invasion pics, this one deals with a hellacious roommate, who answers an ad (``Single white female seeks female . . . `` ) and moves into a decaying but nonetheless spectacular (and rent-controlled) Manhattan apartment. Jennifer Jason Leigh is the demon roomie, Bridget Fonda...
Single White Female: IMPLAUSIBILITY SLICES ANOTHER LURID THRILLER
The 1990s bumper-sticker movie message to the young seems to be: ''Get a life; steal someone else's.'' ``Single White Female,'' like ``The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,'' is clearly a response to the anxious times we live in. It's also the third lurid thriller in two weeks to come out trembling in a high Hitchcockian dither. Palpably the weirdest, arguably the most skillful...