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Ann Rule Presents The Stranger Beside Me
2003
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, Ann Rule becomes friends with Ted Bundy. Based on a book by Ann Rule. Read more
| Starring | Barbara Hershey, Bill Campbell, Kevin Dunn, Suki Kaiser |
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| Director | Paul Shapiro |
| Genres | Drama |
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Ann Rule Presents The Stranger Beside Me
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, Ann Rule becomes friends with Ted Bundy. Based on a book by Ann Rule.
| Starring | Barbara Hershey, Bill Campbell, Kevin Dunn, Suki Kaiser, Brenda James, Jay Brazeau |
|---|---|
| Director | Paul Shapiro |
| Studio | CINEMA CLUB |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 13 Mar 2006 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Solid, fair and watchable drama
Bringing the story of one of America's most notorious (and during the late seventies and early eighties most well known) serial killers to the screen is no easy task. There have been a number of attempts to portray Ted Bundy's viscious killing spree, and nearly all fail to impress. This tale takes the angle from Ann Rule's best selling (and thoroughly engrossing) book, and while it has the 'made for TV' stamp all over it, it makes an impressive go at telling the story. Campbell as Bundy is believable - not overplayed and with a good sense of menace, although I struggled to see him as the psychopath or sociopath that Bundy certainly was. Hershey is an underrated actress and she carries this role with strength and purpose. There are uneccessary flaws in the telling, for reasons I can't really fathom: why a red VW, when Bundy's was tan? Why the multistory car park abduction site, when the occasion Bundy took two victims in one afternoon occurred at a public lake beach? Why the 'jumper cables' ruse, when the 'arm in sling, help me with my books' tactic is so famously known as Bundy's modus operandi? A story needs to be adapted for sure, but these elements (and a few others) seem to me so essential, so basic to get right. That said, its a well presented drama, and worth a look if you are interested in the Bundy story.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Solid, fair and watchable drama
Bringing the story of one of America's most notorious (and during the late seventies and early eighties most well known) serial killers to the screen is no easy task. There have been a number of attempts to portray Ted Bundy's viscious killing spree, and nearly all fail to impress. This tale takes the angle from Ann Rule's best selling (and thoroughly engrossing) book, and while it has the 'made for TV' stamp all over it, it makes an impressive go at telling the story. Campbell as Bundy is believable - not overplayed and with a good sense of menace, although I struggled to see him as the psychopath or sociopath that Bundy certainly was. Hershey is an underrated actress and she carries this role with strength and purpose. There are uneccessary flaws in the telling, for reasons I can't really fathom: why a red VW, when Bundy's was tan? Why the multistory car park abduction site, when the occasion Bundy took two victims in one afternoon occurred at a public lake beach? Why the 'jumper cables' ruse, when the 'arm in sling, help me with my books' tactic is so famously known as Bundy's modus operandi? A story needs to be adapted for sure, but these elements (and a few others) seem to me so essential, so basic to get right. That said, its a well presented drama, and worth a look if you are interested in the Bundy story.
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