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This is just a case of a previously worthless island changed into something worthwhile.
Jesus Christ people lets throw a big fit over 2000 islanders big deal.
This is just a case of a previously worthless island changed into something worthwhile.
Jesus Christ people lets throw a big fit over 2000 islanders big deal.
This is just a case of a previously worthless island changed into something worthwhile.
Jesus Christ people lets throw a big fit over 2000 islanders big deal.
Because IT IS, that's why!
This is the same jealous-daughter-kills-people flick we've seen a billion times.
Rosanna Arquette makes anything worth watching, and Mandy Schaffer's brief nude scene (after teasing via scantily clad attire throughout the film) at the end almost make this trite blarney worthwhile, but not quite.
* out of ****
This can't be Mandy Schaffer's last film.
Somebody, do something!
:-( Argh.
What little life this one might have had, the directing finished off.
Don't blame the cast;
they did OK.
Even the winemaker's younger brother was pretty well done, and he didn't even get into the movie until halfway through.
And please, please put Mandy in some more movies!
She's too beautiful to bury her career at such a young age.
Ya' breakin' my haht, heah....
Two specific criticisms, in case anyone cares (apparently nobody liked this movie very much).
First, the way Traci kept popping up at just the right melodramatic moment, in order to see whatever she was supposed to see, and never got seen in return, was very annoying.
Hollywood: please stop giving villains perfect timing luck which runs out exactly when the climax arrives.
It's dumb.
Write better scripts so you won't have to use that lame plot device any more.
If your script isn't good enough to stand up without that, then don't produce it.
Second, Carmen wouldn't have fallen for that fake injury trick that Traci pulled.
She already had Traci fingered.
More bad writing/directing there.
I could trash this movie further but mercy forbids it.
Actually I didn't hate it as much as the others seem to have.
It just didn't have much of a reason for being made, unless it was purely a vehicle to show off the lovely Mandy.
Oh, and to whoever didn't think she was sexy...
the character wasn't very well written, but how can you say she wasn't sexy?
One or the other of us needs glasses, and I don't think it's me.
MORE MANDY.
(Not to be confused with "Moore, Mandy" -- although I'd like to see her again too.
;-) P.S. Did I mention I hope Mandy makes me more movies?
<:-D
Let me be really clear about this movie.
I didn't watch this movie because of the plot, I watch it for the saucy sex scenes.
That being said, this movie is so god damn awful I flip between pure joy of seeing a godly body of Traci (Mandy Schaffer) and cringing my eyeballs out for the disaster of a plot.
Spoiler Alert The first scene of the movie already had me cringing..
you see a woman painting something by the lakeside, in pure bliss and serene, then a beautiful girl approach and ask if she could paint beside her.
When they both finished, they show each other what they had done...
and the woman painted A VINEYARD WHEN SHE IS FACING INFRONT OF THE LAKE.
What kind of screwball director would make this kind of mistake??
And in another scene, Traci gets to kill her teacher's lover by smash him with the sail pole, and then she swims away, and none of the town's police suspected her once.
I mean HELLOOOOO?
MANDY DID NOT WEAR A GLOVE DID SHE?
HER FINGER PRINTS ARE ALL OVER THE GOD DAMN BOAT!!
After that, it gets worst, whenever Mandy is around, there is the "chilling" sound effect played which sounds like a cat in hissy fit.
It's also a real pity Rosanna Arquette's is in this movie.
I feel real sorry for her to have to star in this super low budget soft-porn no brainer.
Same goes for Jürgen Prochnow, who also has the misfortune to star in this movie.
All in all, 2/10.
A truly, truly dire Canadian-German co-production, the ever-wonderful Rosanna Arquette plays an actress whose teenage daughter redefines the term "problem child" - a few uears prior to the "action" the child murdered her father, and mum took the fall for the offspring.
Now she's moved up to the Northwest US to start over, but her child still has a problem in that she's devoted to her mother.
So devoted in fact that she kills anyone who might be seen as a threat to their bond.
Unfortunately Mandy Schaeffer (as the daughter) murders more than people - she delivers such a terrible performance that she also wipes out the movie, though the incoherent script, useless direction and appalling music (check out the saxophone the first time she displays her bikini-clad bod) don't help any;
we're supposed to find her sexy and scary, but she fails on both counts.
Almost completely unalluring and not even bad enough to be amusing (not to mention the fact that Arquette and Schaeffer don't really convince as mother and daughter), all condolences to Miss Arquette and Jurgen Prochnow, both of whom are worthy of far more than this, and both of whom (particularly Rosanna) are the only sane reasons for anyone to sit through this farrago.
One of the production companies is called Quality International Films - not since the three-hour "Love, Lies And Murder" (from Two Short Productions) has there been such a "You must be joking" credit.
This movie is so bad, I knew how it ends right after this little girl killed the first person.
Very bad acting very bad plot very bad movie do yourself a favour and DON'T watch it 1/10
Oh man.
If you want to give your internal Crow T. Robot a real workout, this is the movie to pop into the ol' VCR.
The potential for cut-up lines in this film is just endless.
(Minor spoilers ahead.
Hey, do you really care if a film of this quality is "spoiled"?) Traci is a girl with a problem.
Psychology has developed names for it when a child develops a sexual crush on the opposite-sex parent.
But this girl seems to have one for her same-sex one, and I don't think there's a term for that.
It might be because her mother Dana is played by Rosanna Arquette, whose cute overbite, neo-flowerchild sexuality and luscious figure makes me forgive her any number of bad movies or unsympathetic characters.
Here Dana is not only clueless to her daughter's conduct;
she seems to be competing for the gold medal in the Olympic Indulgent Mother competition.
It's possible that Dana misses Traci's murderous streak because truth be told, Traci seems to have the criminal skills of a hamster.
It's only because the script dictates so that she manages to pull off any kind of a body count.
A particularly hilarious note in this movie is the character of Carmen, a Mexican maid who is described by Dana as around so long she's like one of the family although she dresses in what the director thought would say, "I just fell off the tomato truck from Guadalajara."
Carmen is so wise to Traci's scheming, she might also wear a sign saying, "Hey, I'm the Next Victim!"
Sure enough, Traci confronts Carmen as Carmen is making her way back from Mass, and bops her with one of those slightly angled lug wrenches that car manufacturers put next to your spare as a bad joke.
I rather suspect than in real life those things are as useless as a murder weapon as they are for changing a tire.
In another sequence, Arquette wears a flimsy dress to a vineyard, under cloudy skies, talking to the owner.
Cut to her in another flimsy dress under sunny skies, talking to the owner's brother.
Then cut to her wearing the first dress, in the first location, under cloudy skies - but it's supposed to be later.
You get the picture.
We're talking really bad directing.
As for skin, don't expect much, although Traci does own a nice couple of bikinis.
For those looking for a trash wallow, 8.
For anybody else, 1/2.
I am guessing the reason this movie did so well at the box office is of course Eddie Murphy.
I think this was his first movie since "Beverly Hills Cop" so at the time he was hot.
Considering that one made over two hundred million and it was R and this one made about 80 million and it was pg does say it was not all that popular.
I have never been a big Eddie Murphy fan, so that is probably another reason I didn't care for it much at all.
This one has Eddie as some sort of finder of lost kids.
He must find the golden child or the world is in terrible peril.
The plot is very bad, but as bad as it is it does not compare to the special effects.
I had seen better stuff done in the 70's than some of the stuff this one offers, Ray Harryhausen did better stuff.
Still the main reason you see a movie like this is because of Eddie, unfortunately he is not very funny in this one at all and it just seems stupid to put him in the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" type scenes.
I guess they were hoping for a fish out of water effect, but to me it just did not work.
Unlike "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai", or "Big Trouble in Little China", or "Conan the Barbarian", which are horrible films that have a certain coolness and self-deprecating humor that turn them into cult sensations, The Golden Child is just plain bad.