Second Skin |  | Director: Darrell Roodt
Actors: Natasha Henstridge, Angus Macfadyen, Liam Waite, Norman Anstey, Peter Fonda
Studio: Live / Artisan
Category: Video
List Price: CDN$ 84.44
Buy Used: CDN$ 12.49
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Seller: videoflk
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1201
Format: NTSC
Rating: Unrated
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
UPC: 012236115700
EAN: 0012236115700
ASIN: B000059HCK
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: April 10, 2001
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
From Amazon.com
Natasha Henstridge smokes a cigarette and hides her eyes behind dark glasses while coolly sizing up her next assignment, and then launches into action. Is she a femme fatale, or merely a hard-boiled fiction fan looking for a job in Angus MacFadyen's musty, messy bookstore? Before we can find out, she's clipped in a hit and run and wakes up with amnesia. Or is it just a ruse, and if so, why? Of course nothing is as it seems in this sleek, slick, modern film noir. MacFadyen has an awful lot of money for a man who actively dissuades browsers and buyers from his store; Henstridge is shadowed by a couple of menacing-looking characters; and somewhere in the back of it all a creepy Peter Fonda is pulling the strings as a calmly meticulous and coldly ruthless crime boss. Darrell James Roodt directs this twisting tale of secret identities, double crosses, hidden pasts, and concealed loyalties with all the grit and depth of a fashion layout: it's handsome but hollow. Thankfully there's the criminally underrated Henstridge at the center of all the mysteries, a sexy, assured, riveting presence who gives weight to the film's most enigmatic character. Perhaps it's not so hard after all to understand loner MacFadyen risking his present for a future with the fiery, dangerous Henstridge. --Sean Axmaker
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| Customer Reviews:
 I flat out loved it! April 28, 2004
Sarah Kelley (Greenville, AL USA)
What more can I say? Buy the movie; you'll want to watch it over and over!
 Joins the film noir greats November 22, 2002
Kevin Brianton (Melbourne, Victoria Australia)
A small low budget film with little or no publicity could join the noir greats. It has all the classic ingredients - an ice cool blonde, a bad bad gangster, and a savage twist at the end. some really interesting effects from the director with cross and jump cutting. Liked every bit of it.I have not enjoyed a film noir so much since Blood Simple.
Stylish, twisty noir February 26, 2002
Second Skin is a very nicely realized contemporary noir tale that is considerably elevated above the usual "cable noir" junk by its beautiful photography, icy score, and the remarkable beauty and underrated acting of Natasha Henstridge, who has never been sexier or more controlled in her performance. The director makes the most of his Cape Town locations, which look enough like the California coast to make you forget this was shot anywhere else. The plot doesn't break much new ground, but it delivers a very surprising final twist. Fans of Henstridge and the genre wont be disappointed.
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