Kathleen Turner in Crimes of Passion

This film is all about dichotomy and conflict. There are themes of damnation & redemption, repressed sexuality & explicit sexuality, fidelity & adultery, honesty & hypocrisy. These themes are all driven by a blazing and unhibited performance by a young and radiant Kathleen Turner, only two years after she came to fame in BODY HEAT.

In a satisfyingly characterization (verging on camp) of a misguided, actually deranged preacher, Anthony Perkins gives us a scarifying jolt as a man of very ragged cloth.

The movie's pacing is mostly frenzied, but Turner's performance as good girl clothes designer by day and hooker bad girl by night is nuanced and rooted in reality regardless of the plot's fantastic machinations. This Ken Russell film was not a popular success but there is a core constituency of fans extolling its sheer creativity and audaciousness. This film is not for the prudish - it is ADULT and has some graphic sex scenes and violent situations.