Frauds

1993

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 1225 1.2K

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Plot summary

The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.

Director

Stephan Elliott Photo
Stephan Elliott

Top cast

Hugo Weaving Photo
Hugo Weaving as Jonathan Wheats
Phil Collins Photo
Phil Collins as Roland Copping
Josephine Byrnes Photo
Josephine Byrnes as Beth Wheats
Nicholas Hammond Photo
Nicholas Hammond as Detective Simms
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862.79 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 2
1.56 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by merklekranz 6 / 10

Neon fun house of sadism ...........

"Frauds" is a well acted, weirdly entertaining sadistic fun house ride. Phil Collins, who quite frankly can quickly wear thin, uses that annoyance to full advantage while putting the squeeze on husband and wife Hugo Weaving and Josephine Byrnes. Insurance fraud leads to blackmail and a living nightmare in the form of insurance investigator, Collins. The most intriguing part of "Frauds" is most definitely Collins's neon lit fun house where he resides. That imaginative set piece drives this film. If only it had concluded in a more satisfying manner. The resolution is indeed the weakest part of an otherwise winning movie. - MERK
Reviewed by tom-73771 7 / 10

Weirdly entertaining

I had a vague memory of this film from my childhood and it was a lot of fun to revisit it a couple of decades later. It has a bizarre aesthetic and some seriously wooden acting (particularly in the early scenes), but once Phil Collins enters the action, the film hits its sweet spot in the second act before going off the rails towards the end. The characters all make weird, bonehead decisions, which is infuriating because the end product could have been so much better. Still, I enjoyed the brazen bizarreness of it all and for originality alone it scores in the positive. Incidentally you can (at the time of writing this review) watch it for free on YouTube.
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