I was watching the movie and had to turn it off.
Anyone know what happened in the end?
I turned the movie on just when the real Susan found out the real Nicole was dead.
I turned off the movie just before the real Susan and the guy who helped her escape from the police went into her house. I saw the open door and broken window.
What happened next?
I'm dying to know.
Thanks.
(SPOILER ALERT: do not read unless you have not seen the movie)
Well, the plot is like this is opens outside a nightclub where a young woman from Texas named Susan (Crystal Bernard) is led into a local Los Angeles nightclub by the outgoing Nicole (Traci Lords). The two form a fast friendship, where Susan says she works in a local business firm and trying to make a fresh start. Nicole is an outgoing woman whom just like to have a good time. When Nicole collapses at a party, Susan takes her to the hospital where she's diagnosed with a stomach ulser. Susan give Nicole her idenity so she can use Susan's insurance for an operation. Nicole is said to have died during the surgery so, Susan tries to find out how. She makes contact with her long-estraged father George (George Dickerson) whom is suing the hospital for neglegence, particilary the orderly Eddie Garcia (Carlos Carrasco) whom was on call. When Susan questions Garcia, he recalls a man lurking around asking questions about Nicole/Susan that day. Susan (still using Nicole's name and idenity) learns that her father had a previous wife and a older brother named Aaron whom may have been responsible. Then a mysterous stranger, named Ron (Judge Reinhold) helps Susan escape from the police whom want to question her about Nicole/Susan's death. Susan asks Ron to help her find Aaron and what he knows.
But in the big twist, (clearly seen a mile away) is that Ron really is Aaron. He then kills Garcia to prevent him from identifying him to Susan. Aaron/Ron murdered Nicole, thinking she was Susan, by tampering with the hospital records to give her the wrong blood type during the surgery all so he could inherit all her money. But Ron/Aaron still does not know that he killed the wrong woman and that Susan is using Nicole's idenity. In the denoument, Aaron tries to persuade Susan/Nicole to kill his father to claim his money too, but Susan finally reveals her idenity to all to save her father from her murderous step-brother, and in the final physical confrontation atop a cliff overlooking a beach, Susan gets the upper hand on Aaron by throwing a urn with Nicole's ashes in his face, blinding him, leading him to stumble off the cliff to his death. Susan and her father then decide to try to work things out between them.
The above plot description isn't entirely accurate. First, Ron/Aaron is a half brother, not a step brother. Next, It wasn't a matter of inheritance so much as money to be won in a civil lawsuit against the hospital for "Susan's" supposedly negligent death. Aaron/Ron orginally only wanted money from his half-sister, and the murder was to punish "Susan" for not giving him any (since the patient was really Nicole, he didn't have much chance of collecting). "Ron" wasn't helping Susan (posing as Nicole) escape from police wanting to question her, but rather she was fleeing because she knew Nicole probably had warrants out on her due to unpaid tickets and she didn't want to be arrested (and/or exposed as Susan). Also, the father's name is Edgar, not George (that's the actor's name).
I think the main reason Susan kept Nicole's identity for so long was because she thought she would be charged with manslaughter as well as insurance fraud. What she should have simply done was to accuse the dead Nicole of identity theft.
The ending was a little dumb: The same lawyer trying to win the wrongful death case against the hospital helps Susan with her insurance fraud crime and THANKS her for not making him party to the murderer's fraud. This lawyer lost out on $4 Million (his fee) so I would think he would not be so happy.
I think that they could have made a good movie by chopping off the murder/long lost family part and simply made it about identity exchange, how to get her own identity back, etc. Something like "The Net". Nicole's death could have been caused by using Susan's medical information (blood type) instead.
And see, that's where I thought they were going with this at first. That Nicole got the wrong blood type due to them thinking she was Susan and gave her Susan's blood type. But no, her half brother murdered her by implementing the wrong code.
It really was a stupid movie, mostly because of the bad writing. Which is a shame because it had potential to actually go somewhere.
But it's my fault really. I saw that it was becoming extremely lame, and yet I sat and watched it anyway. So, that's about two hours of my life I'll never get back. I mean, I love Judge Reinhold and usually think any movie is worth seeing with him in it, no matter how bad it might be, but in this instance, I was very, very wrong!
Oh, @ Matt-282. I noticed you using "whom" a lot. Please look the word up, and how to use it in a sentence. Your use of it in the context you wrote it in was just, wrong. I'm sorry, I am not trying to attack you, but proper grammar and spelling and punctuation are important things to me, and it really hurts me when I see people butchering words and sentence structure.