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Plot summary
Bobby Grady runs an electronics store and does the occasional surveillance job. He goes to group therapy because his marriage to Amy has lost its spark and he fears for it. A fashion design house hires him to watch Joanna Crane, an employee it suspects of leaking clothing patterns to competitors. Grady finds no proof of that, but he learns that Joanna sells sex at night as China Blue, in a platinum wig and provocative clothes, for regular customers with particular tastes. One of them is Peter Shayne, a preacher who delivers street sermons, watches peep shows and carries a doctor's bag that holds a Bible and sex toys. Shayne insists he must save her soul.
Cast
- Vince McKewinas Group Member No.3
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- John G. Scanlonas Carl
- Christina Langeas Lisa Grady
- Seth Wagermanas Jimmy Grady
- Joseph Chapmanas Walt Pierson
- Thomas Murphyas Phil Chambers
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Crimes of Passion (1984)
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- The MPAA initially gave Crimes of Passion an X rating, and when Ken Russell's re-cut failed to win an R, New World Pictures refused to release it unless it was rated R, so he was asked to cut the film a third time.
- At the film's wrap party aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Ken Russell married his longtime companion, with Anthony Perkins, an ordained Universal Life Church minister, officiating; Perkins said Russell suggested it.
- Jeff Bridges wanted the role of Bobby Grady and dropped his price from $3 million to $1 million, but the film could not afford him; Patrick Swayze and Alec Baldwin auditioned before John Laughlin was chosen.
- Kathleen Turner took the part against her agent's advice because she wanted to break away from her image in Romancing the Stone.
- In her memoirs, Kathleen Turner wrote that shooting was made difficult by Anthony Perkins' drug problem and Ken Russell's heavy drinking.
- Ken Russell sued New World Pictures in 1986 for more than $1 million in damages, saying he had agreed to direct the film for $578,514 plus 20 per cent of the profits.
- The Reverend Peter Shayne was originally written as a psychiatrist, but Anthony Perkins, who had just played one on Broadway in Equus, did not want another, so Ken Russell made him a reverend.
- Rick Wakeman performed the synthesizer-heavy score, most of which is made up of melodies taken directly from Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony.
