![]() ![]() New!!: Shadow of a Doubt (1995 film) and Brent Jennings īrian Manion Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is an American actor of film, stage, and television. New!!: Shadow of a Doubt (1995 film) and Bonnie Bedelia īrent Jennings (born 1951) is an African American actor. Bonnie Bedeliaīonnie Bedelia (born Bonnie Bedelia Culkin, March 25, 1948) is an American actress. ![]() ĥ relations: Bonnie Bedelia, Brent Jennings, Brian Dennehy, Fairuza Balk, Shadow of a Doubt (disambiguation). I don't regret having seen it, but there isn't exactly anything to recommend here.Shadow of a Doubt is a 1995 American TV movie that was written and directed by its star Brian Dennehy. ![]() And the film is entertaining, albeit in an extremely lowbrow sort of way. It's hard to say if her performance is uneven, or it's just the character. So what's good about this film? Fairuza Balk is interesting. In effect, he invites everyone to overact as much as they care to. He lets everyone wink at the audience and make cute little sideways comments to the camera. In fact, he has next to no ability to rein in his actors. Speaking of Brian Dennehy (who I like very much as an actor), he is not a good director. Not that I have anything against the AA, but it just smacks of recent conversion fervor. At one point, his character references his time being sober as being virtually the exact same as Dennehy himself. The origin of this is embarrassingly close to the life of director/star Brian Dennehy. Then there's the shameless Alcoholics Anonymous propaganda. One of the lowest scenes is a retread of the old "death as an aphrodisiac" cliché. Scene after scene is right out of the cheapest, lowest quality pulp fiction. The judge's lines are inappropriate and unrealistic. The script of "Shadow of a Doubt" is bad. ![]()
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