- Actors: Dean Cain, Lexa Doig, Eric Roberts, Peter Stebbings, Richard Chevolleau
- Directors: Bruce Pittman
- Writers: Ivan Kane, John Schafer, Léopold St-Pierre
- Producers: Dessie Markovsky, Emile Razpopov, Gord Haines, Holly Harter
- Format: PAL
- Language English, Vietnamese
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Planet
- DVD Release Date: 25 Aug 2000
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00004Y3MJ
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 118,426 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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English
Region 2
Dolby Digital English
Dolby Digital
Scene Index
Cast Notes
Theatrical Trailer
Photo Gallery
Coming Soon Feature
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This must be Dean Cain's best roll yet. To anyone who says he can't act this will deffinately prove you wrong. The film has an excellent plot that keeps you interested all the way through. Eric Roberts plays a very menessing bad guy and has a surprise at the end of the film. A must for Dean Cain fans.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
No Alibi
26 Sep 2000
Format:DVD
In "The Alibi" starring Dean Cain and Eric Roberts, Dean Cain plays,Bob, a young corporate up and comer who plays basket ball with his brother and childhood friends every Sunday. This all changes when he meets Camile, played by Lexa Doig. In Camile, Bob has suddenly found true love. But Camile has a secret and that secret involves the unexpected death of Bob's brother. As Bob and Camile try to grow in their love, Bob also tries to solve the murder of his brother. The two quests are at ends as Bob cannot rest until he knows what has happened to his brother and that knowledge will destroy what he has found with Camile. I found the plot and development of the story intreging. Dean Cain does a great job as Bob, showing a wide range of emotions and determination. Eric Roberts is a great villian - I really hated him in the end. Lexa Doig is more limited in her range of emotions but is convincing in her part. My biggest disappointment with the film was that it was not long enough. It skipped several time frames (as in the scene where they are discussing Christmas presents and the next scene is New Year's Eve) which gave it a disjointed feel and at 90 minutes in length, it could certainly have had smoother transitions. Overall, I enjoyed the film and am glad I purchased it.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A disappointment, yet intriguing
9 April 2001
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The DVD isn't in widescreen format, which is always disconcerting. However, the film itself is uneven. The main performances are all good, with a particularly fine performance by Dean Cain in the lead as a man who's obsessed with finding out who killed his brother and why, then has to deal with the fact his own wife was involved. Eric Roberts is fine playing a man who's gone over the edge (a type he's done in the past). He's not playing a man you love to hate, but just a man you hate. The female lead gives an effective performance in a two-dimensional role, but it's an impossible role to play, like being cast as Helen of Troy or some other legendary beauty - you can't win. Literally every lead male character in the film falls for her, and since all three guys are so different in type you can't figure they'd fall for the same type of woman, so what makes this one so special? That kind of conceit in a film is trying to force a viewer to suspend disbelief. It doesn't work, neither does the fact she's apparently not too bright, because the first half of the film is so implausible she should have seen it all coming. By the final half of the film, however, the plot becomes tighter, more tense, and this leads to a satisfactory finish. Worth watching for the acting, and how it all ends.
"I think I deserve a little compensation"
21 Dec 2006
Format:DVD
An uneven movie in places, things do fit together better during a second or even a third viewing but the show seems to have scenes missing, especially at the end where Dean Cain says, "That was the deal". What "deal" he is referring to is uncertain, I don't remember a scene where there was a "deal". Dean enters an elevator with an attractive oriental woman (a woman conceived during the Vietnam War, who is supposedly half American). They become acquainted, start dating and fall in love. But later you realize their meeting was not by chance. She is helping her one time love interest (Eric Roberts)track down the man who unknowingly stole 2.5 million dollars tucked away inside 12 video recorder machines. Cain's brother (Phil) is the one they're after though, which they realize later. He borrowed Cain's car to do the heist. Roberts got the license number as the car screeched away. Robert's would make a great detective. He's always showing up in places that would seem unlikely for him to be. Lexa (Cain's wife) tells Cain "I do love you", as she attempts to betray him, but Cain has figured the story out by this time and will not become Robert's next victim. Not a great movie but a good show to watch late on Friday or Saturday night.
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