The Addiction (1995)

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Love the Hard Way

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.

Rating: NONE

Release Date: Oct 6, 1995

Running Time: 84 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco, Paul Calderon, Fredro Starr, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Imperioli, Jamel "Redrum" Simmons, Michael Fella

director: Abel Ferrara

Kathleen Conklin is an NYU philosophy student desperate to understand how the complex moral maxims of Nietzche and Heidegger can explain a world in which a My Lai or Dachau is possible. Her abstract contemplations soon turn brutally real when a vampire's bite awakens her own unacknowledged thirst for blood. Kathleen's increasing depravity leads to her moral fall and ultimate redemption.

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The Addiction

719 10-19-95
The glut of vapid vampire movies makes you want to bite back, but director Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant), working from a rabidly ambitious script by Nicholas St. John, gives the genre a provocative and perversely funny snap that Anne Rice might envy. Lili Taylor casts a haunting spell as Kathleen Conklin, a New York University doctoral student of philosophy who is obsessed with images of evil. When a stranger (Annabella Sciorra) nibbles her neck, Kathleen goes from…