Jesse (Rachael Leigh Cook,
Blow Dry) is a reporter investigating a series of killings with her news
crew. The killer videotapes his victims while he stalks and then murders them.
The team receives a copy of a videotape containing footage of Jesse and her producer
Jane (Annabella Sciorra, King of the Jungle) kissing. Jesse immediately
moves several hundred miles away to apparent safety, and the tape disappears. The
entire story is presented in the context of a documentary for the real crime television
show American Crime, and a reporter from that show continues the investigation. Later
Jane is fired from the station after offering a female interviewee a neck massage
and then touching her breasts. Jane joins the American Crime crew to rescue Jesse
after she is abducted, before she herself becomes a target of the stalker's tapes.
Can they find Jesse, and who is the stalker? This is one of those films
in which you have to wonder about the purpose of the lesbian content. Why in the
world would Jane, a successful television producer, start touching a woman she
didn't know so inappropriately before an interview, and what does that have to
do with anything else in the story? The impression of her relationship with Jesse
was also presented as if Jane were the older woman taking advantage of the younger,
naïve Jesse. |