Enjoyable '80s Thriller


I've owned "The Seduction" on VHS for many years and I hope that Anchor Bay does release it on DVD. While Morgan Fairchild's acting may not be leading lady worthy, she was just starting out at the time and was a huge television starlet. I'm not saying she's terrible, but they didn't give her much to do in the screenplay, as she plays 'Jamie Douglas,' a pretty L.A. newscaster who becomes a fan's (Andrew Stevens) obsession. Fairchild's older, not to mention hideous, boyfriend (Michael Sarrazin) is enraged when Stevens barges into her home and takes pictures of her. When he goes to the police and they tell him that nothing can be done until he's threatened her, Sarrazin buys a shotgun. Plucky Morgan wants nothing to do with it, she'd rather lounge in bath tubs, take moonlit swims, or go shopping with her girlfriend, played by Colleen Camp in a funny performance. Stevens finally gets violent and stabs Sarrazin to death, and this is when Morgan turns the tables on him. Fairchild is beautiful to look at without a doubt, and it's great when she decides to fight back, turning Stevens into a pleading coward. Stevens is good as the off-kilter Romeo, but he's too good-looking to be a character that is supposed to be threatening. If anything, Fairchild should've just dumped Sarrazin and she and Stevens would have made a picture perfect couple! But then there'd be no movie. Anyways, Mac Ahlberg provides great photography as he usually does, and the score by Lalo Schifrin is very effective. This is definitely not as bad as a lot of 'critics' say it is, if you're a Morgan Fairchild fan and/or you like glossy thrillers from the 80s, this is your movie!

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I saw this movie on a rented tape in our home VCR in the early-mid 1980s, and I did like it pretty well and thought it was good (and disagreed with most critics, who panned it). I also read parts of the book of it, and then saw it again in summer, 1997 on a VCR. I always thought she was beautiful in it, and also remembered that her character's first name was Jamie. She was the first ficticious character I ever knew that had this name, until I saw Halloween 4 (with Jamie, Michael Myers' niece-see my writings on its user board). In the mid 1990s I also became aware of Jamie Buchanon in Mad About You. But though I remembered Jamie had a best friend in this movie, I didn't remember her name until recently went on this movie site, and then saw it was Robin. I explained about a Jamie I know in real life (see Halloween 4), but in the same place I knew her from a Robin worked there as well, in a different position. They got along well (most people could with this Jamie), though they were not best friends as the Jamie and Robin in this movie were (and I don't think saw each other away from work). But they both left this place in early 2004 (for different reasons), and in April, 2004 I happened to run into Robin in a store, and we talked a few minuites, and I liked her as well (though not like Jamie, and I did not find her beautiful like Jamie). But the talk mainly went to Jamie, and I asked Robin what her last name was (she didn't seem to know, said to look on the employee of the month plaque in there for it- but then remembered and said it-see on Halloween 4). Robin had a 2-3 year old boy with her (I assume her son, I don't think she was babysitting), and I said nothing about him, as most people would probably have done, all I wanted to do was talk about Jamie. I hope she was not offended by that, she didn't even seem to notice, but it is just that I'm not a big child person except at Halloween. And when I was in there one night in December, 2003 smoking my holiday cigars she said she didn't know I smoked cigars (I then explained about them just being a holiday thing). But in addition to this real life relevance, I do share your views on this movie, and also remember it just as you wrote here.

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Wanted to see this movie for years. Now I definitely have got to see/get it!




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Damn, I even have a poster of this movie on my wall and I haven't even seen this movie yet... only few minutes back in the 80's. Maybe I should get the DVD.

If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes you.

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I liked this a lot too. I love Morgan Fairchild <3

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