Love Crimes (film)

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Love Crimes
Directed by	Lizzie Borden
Screenplay by	Allan Moyle Laurie Frank
Story by	Allan Moyle
Produced by	Lizzie Borden Rudy Langlais
Starring	Sean Young Patrick Bergin Arnetia Walker James Read
Cinematography	Miramax Films
Release date	January 24, 1992 (1992-01-24)
Running time	84 minutes (theatrical) 91 minutes (unrated director's cut)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6 million
Box office	$2,287,928

Love Crimes is a 1992

Plot

Assistant district attorney Dana Greenway conspires with police lieutenant Maria Johnson to go after a serial sexual predator who identifies himself to his victims as "David Hanover," a distinguished photographer.

Greenway goes undercover, changing her appearance and passing herself off as a repressed schoolteacher. She eventually encounters Hanover, who seduces her, photographs her nude and causes Lt. Johnson to believe that Greenway might actually have fallen under his spell.

Flashbacks to her troubled childhood, including abuse from a father who locked her in a closet, haunt Greenway as she attempts to come to her senses and get the better of Hanover, who clearly intends to humiliate and then kill her.

Cast

• Sean Young as Dana Greenway
• Patrick Bergin as David Hanover
• James Read as Stanton Gray
• Arnetia Walker as Lt. Maria Johnson
• Fern Dorsey as Colleen

Reception

Love Crimes received negative reviews from critics and flopped at the box office.

Young earned a

Lizzie Borden has said in an online interview with The Important Cinema Club that Harvey Weinstein wanted the ending changed before the film began production, so there was "no script" going in, throwing production into chaos. The film was taken out of her hands during post-production and filmmaker Kit Carson shot flashbacks against Borden's will. Borden wanted to take her name off the film but Weinstein threatened to "destroy her career" if she did. She also said there was never a "director's cut." This was just a marketing ploy by Weinstein to release a version with more erotic footage in the hopes of drawing more box office.^[2]

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