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  • Actors: Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Thomsen, Ian Hart
  • Directors: Kaige Chen
  • Writers: Kara Lindstrom, Sean French
  • Producers: Anna Chi, Daniel Goldberg, Donna Grey, Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 7 April 2003
  • Run Time: 96 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008OP5P
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,131 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Any film aiming to be Hitchcockian has a lot to live up to: with its blonde heroine, eerie atmosphere and sweeping score, Killing Me Softly sets itself up for a fall even before the plot kicks in. Stylishly filmed by Chen Kaige (the Chinese director's first English feature), this London-set thriller is based on Nicci French's novel about a young American woman, Alice (Heather Graham), and her passionate affair with the mysterious stranger Adam (Joseph Fiennes). Leaving her partner and surrendering herself to Adam's sexual experimentation, Alice only begins to suspect something's not quite right once she's married him and a series of ominous notes arrive through the post. Add to this Adam's mysterious first marriage, an intriguing locked cupboard and enigmatic sister (Natasha McElhone), and Alice begins to look for a way out, in fear of her life.

The fact that Alice sleeps with a stranger at the drop of a hat makes for a shaky premise, but what ensues can only be described as complete nonsense, with the plot twisting its way to a ludicrous climax. Smirking his way through the film, Fiennes is as miscast as Graham, who's clearly there for the soft porn love scenes and not the ones where she's a reporter replete with big spectacles. Graham in the buff is certainly going to attract a few viewers, but for the rest of us Killing Me Softly is just too plain daft to bother with.

On the DVD: Killing Me Softly offers a sparse set of extras, including a featurette that repeats most of the footage seen in the trailer, also included. Short interviews with cast members Graham, Fiennes and McElhone can be found here alongside comments from director Kaige and some footage of the shoot itself, all of which add little to the overall package. --Laura Bushell

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Featurette
Original Theatrical Trailer
Scene Access
Interactive Menus


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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Drivel, 21 Oct 2003
This was a very disappointing film with a convoluted narrative and poor performances from Joseph Fiennes (from 'Shakespeare In Love') and a pallid looking Heather Graham who serves no other purpose other than being a vehicle for gratuitous T&A shots in soft focus.
The film is about a mountaineer (Fiennes) who has returned to London following a tragic accident on an undisclosed mountain where his lover and a couple of extras died in suspicious circumstances. Heather Graham's character is living with her boyfriend who she dumps for the sultry looking Fiennes as she becomes infatuated by him at a pelican crossing when he keeps looking at her (hilarious and embarrassing attempt at being sexy), this ends up with at least 5 cheesy (and graphic) sex scenes. Graham leaves her fella and moves in with Fiennes only to start receiving 'warning' messages that Fiennes is a psycho. She goes undercover and the story doesn't get going until about 30 mins till the end.

This film version of the book is different in many ways - none of them however are better. The plot is very predictable and the twist in the story is about as original as 501 Jeans. This so called' Thriller' is about as exciting as boiled cabbage, but the sex scenes are comedic and I cringed for Fiennes/Graham who had no chemistry whatsoever.

This film proved to me that Joseph Fiennes and Heather Graham cannot lead a film. This film scrapes a 1/5 and is the worst I have seen in ages

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9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievably bad, 18 Nov 2003
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I read the novel Killing me Softly a couple of years ago, and thought that it wasn't very believable. I watched the film to see if my impression of the book was incorrect. It was not. The deficiencies in the story only seem to be made worse by the fact that it is acted out in front of your eyes, and the script seems so ham fisted it makes a bad story even worse. There are many plot holes, and whilst watching the film I was constantly wondering why certain things were happening, and even who certain people were, and I was familiar with the story, and had an advantage some viewers may not have. Alice seems to have a best friend Sylvie, who witnesses a mugging and then disappears again only to reappear to reconnect Alice to her old life, which we the viewer know nothing about. She then disappears and is never seen again. The meeting of the two protaganists is laughable, if someone looked at me the way Joseph Fiennes did then I would check to see he wasn't trying to steal my purse! not seduce me.
I think the writer/director have tried to counter the deficiencies in the original story by introducing new characters and changing part of the narrative, but our heroine Alice just comes across as a silly naive girl, who can't see danger 200 miles off. As a viewer it is very difficult to sympathise and therefore engage with her character so the whole thing falls flat. I think the actors probably realised this as well as they all seem to be sleepwalking through it!!
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Return the film, buy the book, 9 Jan 2006
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After reading "Killing Me Softly", the book by Nicci French I was intrigued about seeing the film, since the book was so good. It really wasn't worth any anticipation. The film doesn't stay true to the book, by a long way, and the ending is completely changed into something so preposterous you wonder what the scriptwriters were thinking. The acting is pretty dire, and the development of the relationship storyline is inadequate (and i'm pretty sure the only reason heather graham is in this is for titillation, because she doesn't do a lot of acting, and joseph fiennes isn't much better). All in all, don't bother if you liked the book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not THAT bad!
Having read the book, I kept comparing the two, but I don't think the film was as bad as some reviewers are making out. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Alison Mallaghan

4.0 out of 5 stars Strange sort of love story...

This is a really weird film for me. I've only ever seen it twice, and it having been some time since I saw it the first time around, I was surprised to find that on my... Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2006 by FAMOUS NAME

4.0 out of 5 stars London is beautiful for passionate love
This film is quite gripping in many ways, but particularly so in one : it tricks us into believing something that is nothing but a preconceived idea. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2004 by Jacques COULARDEAU

3.0 out of 5 stars Killing me Slowly's a better title
This movie was not the worst I have seen, as the storyline had a good basis, but the casting was terrible! Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2004 by webbyrulez

5.0 out of 5 stars killing me softly, a wonderfully filmed story
I must admit i only brought this at first because i wanted to see heather Graham get her kit off. The film has recieved some poor ratings and press. Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2003 by P. Hanbury

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