The Preppie Murder

1989

Crime / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 36%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 36% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 578 578

Director

John Herzfeld Photo
John Herzfeld

Top cast

Sandra Bullock Photo
Sandra Bullock as Stacy
Joanna Kerns Photo
Joanna Kerns as Linda Fairstein
Andrew Lauer Photo
Andrew Lauer as Josh
Suzanne Snyder Photo
Suzanne Snyder as Kim
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876.17 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 2
1.59 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rps-2 5 / 10

Almost turned it off...

This film grinds along at a confusing slow pace for at least half its length. It also has the look and feel of a low budget production. I was debating whether to bail out or to stick it out, perhaps voting a 1 or 2. The glacial and gummy pace of the film is aggravated by some sort of "method" acting in which people mumble, over react, interrupt each other and in striving for a natural quality succeed only in creating a very unnatural one. However after the crime, when the police investigation and the trial start, it becomes rather compelling. So I bumped up my rating. Although I'm glad I stuck it out, my life wouldn't have been much devalued if I hadn't.
Reviewed by Back2Bath 4 / 10

Nice Face, Shame About the Acting

I just saw this film for the first time, and I must agree with the previous reviewer - Alec's l'il bro was seriously miscast in the role of a remorseless murderer! While cute during the first 27.8 seconds of the movie, Billy's Basset Hound StaresT grew a little - no, make that extremely - tiresome in very short order. His good looks didn't make up for the fact that he couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, something the producers might have considered when they were looking for someone to play the role of a sociopath.The only actor worth watching here was Danny Aiello; in fact most of those who played cops did so with amazing credibility. The interrogation scenes were a joy to watch and actually made you believe that this is what it must really be like (unlike the usual TV in-your-face all-anger-all-the-time TV cop shows).In the end, though, I was left with the feeling that if a good actor had played the lead it may have been a better film.
Reviewed by Varlaam 6 / 10

She's awkward! She's gauche! She's Lara Flynn Boyle!

She (Boyle) is a nice, pretty girl but needs a little polish; he (Billy Baldwin) wears shirts by Ralph Lauren. You can see there's trouble a-brewing.This movie is probably, unfortunately, of greatest interest for The World of Hibernia magazine cover girl Boyle before she developed her familiar sexy vamp persona. In fact, she seems like an older version of some of those early hair-twisting Winona Ryder characters. Her part is really only of newcomer size. That's sad to say since Boyle's Before and After are so different from one another.As for Baldwin, he plays a plausible prep perp. Sandra Bullock has rather a small part, as the girl with the ankh earring. Not much of a characterization there.This crime story plays much like a lesser, and fairly routine, episode of "Law & Order", with Danny Aiello standing in for Jerry Orbach and Joanna Kerns doing a blonder version of Michael Moriarty.Aiello's experienced flatfoot is the central character. The script tries to humanize him, not entirely successfully, by showing his "pedagogic" side I'll call it. That gives him a certain degree of warmth, but it's really up to Aiello to lend the role his usual identifiability.I think it all comes down to how much you like Danny Aiello. It happens I do, but don't consider that a recommendation.
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