Paranoid

United Kingdom

2000

93 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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EXEC Steve Christian, Miles Donnelly, Gareth Neame

CAST Jessica Alba, Iain Glen, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ewen Bremner, Mischa Barton, Kevin Whately, Oliver Milburn, Gary Love, Amy Phillips, David Fahm

Looking for a respite, famous fashion model Chloe Keane (Jessica Alba) decides to join rock musician Ned (Gary Love) and his friends for a tranquil weekend in the country in this lurid psychological thriller helmed by Aussie director John Duigan. But after they arrive, Chloe learns that Ned and his drug-addled, libertine chums have a nasty habit of fulfilling their warped sexual fantasies at the expense of unconscious women.

Director

John Duigan

John Duigan, (born 19 June 1949 in Hampshire, England, UK) is an Australian film director. Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an Australian father. He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of Virginia Duigan (wife of director Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford.

Duigan has directed 23 films, including Romero, Lawn Dogs, The Parole Officer, Sirens, and Head in the Clouds. He intended his magnum opus to be The Danny Embling Trilogy, three films centered around the character Danny Embling, an artistic youth growing up in 1960s Australia whose life is influenced by the socially changing world around him and a series of doomed love affairs. The first two films in the series were the critically acclaimed The Year My Voice Broke, and Flirting, both of which won the Australian Film Institute awards for best picture the years they were released.

Thandie Newton claims that Duigan forced her into a relationship with him that… read more