...
Kiss the Girls is a bit of a psychological thrillery type jobby, similar in a lot of ways to Se7en. Freeman stars as Dr Alex Cross, a detective forensic psychologist from DC. His brother's family get some bad news- Cross' niece away in Durham (not the one in England you fool- Americans ... Read review
Kiss the Girlsis a thriller about a collaboration between two serial killers, and, coming ... more
afterThe Silence of the LambsandSeven, it feels like a pale attempt to cash in on the success of those earlier, better films. That's a pity, because this film cer...
Postage & Packaging: £1.21 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Kiss the Girlsis a thriller about a collaboration between two serial killers, and, coming ... more
afterThe Silence of the LambsandSeven, it feels like a pale attempt to cash in on the success of those earlier, better films. That's a pity, because this film cer...
Postage & Packaging: Free! Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours...
Eight kidnapped women. All beautiful. All talented. All in danger of having their lives ... more
cut cruelly short if police detective Alex Cross and key witness Kate Mctiernan can't locate the elusive 'collector' who calls himself Cassanova. From the Deep Sout...
The Corner House was making a good job of New Year's Eve despite the bad weather the ... more
blackout the looming threat of rationing ...The Nippies were dashing to and fro with their big silver trays and the war seemed suddenly far away.' So begins 1940 for the Nippies at the Lyons Corner House at Marble Arch. But despite putting on a cheerful face for the customers the war is taking its toll on all the waitresses: for Maggie married just a few hours and then parted from her husband; for Jo and Phyl anxiously waiting for news from their fiances; for Etty and the constant jibes she faces about her background; and even for Irene who begins a new friendship which is not all it appears to be ...
Postage & Packaging:£0.00 Availability:3-5 working days
*The Number 1 Bestseller! Detective Alex Cross makes his second appearance in the ... more
worldwide No 1 bestseller that also became a No 1 box office hit as a film starring Morgan Freeman -- now reissued in striking new cover style. In Kiss the Girls Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross is thrust into a case he will never forget. This time there isn't just one serial killer there are two. One collects beautiful intelligent women on college campuses on the east coast. The other is terrorising LA with a series of unspeakable murders. But the truly chilling news is that the two brilliant and elusive killers are communicating cooperating competing -- and they have Alex Cross's niece.
Postage & Packaging:£0.00 Availability:3-5 working days
Cancy Kiss Bicycle by Universal CyclesFeatures12" spoked and colour coded wheels,pump up ... more
tyres,enclosed chainguard,front brake,printed safety pad and saddle,stabilisers,dolly seathandle bar tassels.Inside Leg:12"-15"Age: 2-4yrsColour: Mauve
Postage & Packaging:£8.00 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
A number of beautiful women have been abducted by a man who calls himself Casanova. It ... more
falls on detective Alex Cross, to find the women before they are killed. The key witness is the only survivor of the horror. Strong-willed and resourceful she is determined to find the captives she left behind.
Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
Advantages: Morgan Freeman Disadvantages: Robin Hood it would seem
...cast.
Kiss the Girls is a bit of a psychological thrillery type jobby, similar in a lot of ways to Se7en. Freeman stars as Dr Alex Cross, a detective forensic psychologist from DC. His brother's family get some bad news- Cross' niece away in Durham (not the one in England you fool- Americans have never even *heard* of the real Durham) at University has recently gone missing and the Police are desperately searching for clues- in vain. ... ...loud.
Kiss the Girls is the prequel to Along Came a Spider- the well-publicised movie, also starring Morgan Freeman released a few months back. I haven't seen ACaS yet so don't know how much of a prequel it is. Both movies were originally written by James Patterson. Who I've never heard of. I'm full of helpful information aren't I? Ooh but there is a dooyoo category for him if you're really intrigued.
Morgan Freeman is an amazing actor. Don't believe me? What do I care? But just take a look at his credits and you'll see he's a man of discerning taste. The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en, Driving Miss Daisy- hey the man was even the star of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. (But why is it that Americans can't get it into their tiny minds that Robin Hood was meant to be ENGLISH? First Costner, now there's some stupid tacky Xena-style series of it on channel 5 where him and Marion are Yanks. Excuse the Seinfeld but What's that all about? It really does my head in. Hmmm, anyway I digress. Shocking I know) Good old Morgie always seems to subtly steal the show in all his flicks, regardless of the quality of the surrounding cast.
Kiss the Girls is a bit of a psychological thrillery type jobby, similar in a lot of ways to Se7en. Freeman stars as Dr Alex Cross, a detective forensic psychologist from DC. His brother's family get some bad news- Cross' niece away in Durham (not the one in England you fool- Americans have never even *heard* of the real Durham) at University has recently gone missing and the Police are desperately searching for clues- in vain. Cross of course leaps at the chance to do a bit of sight seeing down in North Carolina and maybe kill two girls with one stone by saving his niece too if he gets the time. Something interesting here- well for the young hysterical generation anyway- as the camera pans around the family living room we see that another of Cross' nieces is none other than Tatyana Ali: aka Ashley Banks from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Now if you follow that logic through, that means he must be (probably) Will Smith's uncle too. How's that for irrelevance?
Cross arrives in NC and despite being told to keep his nose out of it by the local Police Chief (this guy was in Red Dwarf one time- who else was in Red Dwarf? Danny John-Jules: Barrington in Maid Marion! Also look out for one of the deputies who was Robin Hood Man in Tights. He was a far better Robin Hood. Put on an accent and everything) he fairly obviously does the exact opposite. For some reason the police don't actually seem to mind his intrusion onto their patch though- fairly strange I thought considering the usual response of Police in movies like this. I guess it must be cos they're so darn incompetent. So it turns out that what the police do know is that some sicko weird guy is kidnapping random intelligent pretty girls- they just don't have much to go on. I thought that was most peoples main source of entertainment anyway these days....
In his (could be a her I suppose) quest for tougher, smarter conquests, the kidnapper takes on Dr Kate McTiernan- Ashley Judd- who also happens to be a kickboxer. A handy skill if you've got it. Not as good as invisibility, particularly in this situation, but useful nonetheless. After a coupla days captivity, Dr Kate breaks loose and makes it back into town-although unfortunately for both the remaining girls and the police she can't remember where the hideout was. She and Dr Alex embark on their mission to do whatever it is they have to and I'm not telling you any more story.
It's a good movie. The plot seems fairly reasonable with only very few glitches. I felt that it always threatened to explode into a really excellent movie but never managed to make it over that final, intangible hurdle that makes it unforgettable- in the Se7en league which I keep going on about. My only problem was that it kept making me think of a certain legend from Sherwood. The undeniable star is Morgan Freeman- looking a lot younger with his goatee and short hair I must say- but it's hardly his greatest performance ever. The rest of the cast are by no means bad at all but not exceptional.
Some of the Carolina forest locations are really beautiful- if you like forests- Robin Hood did- and gives it a bit of a Blair Witchy East Coast Forest feel. Dense trees, dark skies, small streams, that sort of thing. I thought that was cool anyway. I would tell you what I thought about the films score and soundtrack except I can't honestly remember anything about them. So read into that what you will. What a strange grammatical structure that has. *Got* to stop thinking (typing?) out loud.
Kiss the Girls is the prequel to Along Came a Spider- the well-publicised movie, also starring Morgan Freeman released a few months back. I haven't seen ACaS yet so don't know how much of a prequel it is. Both movies were originally written by James Patterson. Who I've never heard of. I'm full of helpful information aren't I? Ooh but there is a dooyoo category for him if you're really intrigued.
If you like Crime thrillers, this should be for you. You don't cotton on to the bad guy early on, there's a few twists and everything all works out nicely in the end except for the few pounds you've just put on while munching your way through a rather large bag of peanuts and half a bottle of Dr Pepper. Just have to take up something active to work it off. Maybe kickboxing. Or forensic psychology. Or archery. What???
Advantages: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd Disadvantages: See review
Young women are being kidnapped in the university town of Durham, North Carolina. Eight have been taken in the last few weeks, and the police haven’t got a single clue to go on. The last one to be abducted, four days earlier, was a music student at the university. Her name was Naomi Cross.
In Washington D.C., her uncle, Alex Cross, is a forensic psychologist. When he hears the news, he heads straight for the North Carolina town to save her the way ... ...head. But when he arrives, he learns that the situation has got a whole lot worse. The police have just discovered the body of one of the girls.
Battered, raped and murdered, this is the second body the police have found, and as hope begins to fade for the other girls, the race is on to try and save them.
Meanwhile, Doctor Kate McTiernan goes about her everyday life, saving children’s lives and working out at her kick-boxing class, blissfully unaware ...
CRIPPLE 22.02.2004
· Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Kiss The Girls (DVD)
Advantages: Morgan Freeman never fails to entertain Disadvantages: Doesnt live up to its promise
Outline
----------
DC Detective psychologist Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) is hunting for 'Casanova' who has been kidnapping girls in North Carolina. An escaped abductee is helping him, his niece is one of the victims and 'this time its personal'
Plot
------
The film starts off rather spookily with 'Casanova' talking about how he loves all the girls he kidnaps. The music is quite eerie, the titles credits are running over the screen and I feel ... ...Once the introduction is over we cut to Alex Cross training some young kids at the boxing gym. It gives the impression that he is a friendly cop, putting something back into the community. He Pager beeps & he sets of to a crime scene in a Porsche. Cross is also a character in ' Along came a spider', another film base on a Patterson novel (which I haven't read). I get the impression that he has made a lot of money from writing some sort of psychology ...
earlofaldgate 23.05.2006
· Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Kiss The Girls (DVD)
Advantages: Its dark its scary its good Disadvantages: Bot alot for this kind of film
When his neice,Naomi(Gina Ravera) is reported missing from Durham, North Carolina Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) goes to Durham only to find his neice is one of a number of women that have vanished. Not long after his arivval a body is found in the woods bound to a tree,and then another woman goes missing,Dr. Kate McTiernan(Ashley Judd).
When Kate wakes she finds herself captured by a man calling himself the Casanova. She can hear the cries and whimpers ... ...to escape the Casanova's clutches by jumping of a cliff into water,badly injuring herself, she joins forces with the detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross to try and catch the Casanova and hopefully save some of the woman she heard whilst trapped in her cell.
This is a good old bad guy catches girl,girl escapes good guy brings bad guy to justice,and this film thanks to Morgan freeman and Ashley Judd is a good vurses evil great film. Its ...
englishtrog 09.03.2009
· Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Kiss The Girls (DVD)
Advantages: Fantastic storyline thats different for a thiller. Disadvantages: none
As a massive James Patterson fan i watched this film with some resevations. I am happy to say any worries i had about the adaptation where unfounded. The film does appear different from the book, not because there are any chapters missing or plot changes but bacuase the cast where not as i imagined. for that reason the film stands on it's own. you don't have to have read the book to enjoy the storyline.
The plot has plenty of twists that keep you ...
icedbailey 09.03.2009
· Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Kiss The Girls (DVD)
Did you enjoy it?
Story
Characters / Performances
Special Effects
How does it compare to ...
Similar reviews »
Reviews which might be of interest for "Kiss The Girls (DVD)"
Advantages: if you like morgan freeman he stars in them all! Disadvantages: not a collection of Morgan Freemans best work
Pollack
Liev Schreiber .... John Clark
Bruce McGill .... National Security Advisor Gene Revell
John Beasley .... General Lasseter
Russell Bobbitt .... Israeli Pilot
Philip Baker Hall .... Defense Secretary David Becker
Al Vandecruys .... US STRATCOM Colonel
Richard Cohee .... Mt. Weather General
Philip Pretten .... President's Military Aide
Alison Darcy .... Fowler's Aide
Richard Marner .... President Zorkin
Ostap Soroka .... Zorkin's Translator
Extra Information
Runtime: 124 min
Language: English / Russian / Ukrainian / German / Arabic
Certification: UK:12 / USA:PG-13
Release date: 2002
No additional features
KISS THE GIRLS Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
Directed by
Gary Fleder
Writing credits
James Patterson (novel ...
Advantages: All time family classic Disadvantages: yet to find one
all know the classic under the sea or kiss the girl, will be loved by children and grown ups alike my mum still loves it. The dvd is packed with extra features to so you are getting good value for money to in my mind.
Well enjoy your underwater experience and remember the seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake!
Zara x ...
Advantages: Great memories and animations. Disadvantages: None , I love it.
I love this dvd and it has timeless memories and really is a classic. It's animations are great and are a lot more improved than the old version. Special features are superb and some of the games include Saving the petals on a magic flower and many more. The DVD also consists of great interviews with the producers and deleted scences which are really. In the movie a man has a spell put on him and until he loves solmeone he remains a beast. He only has a short while to find love. He finds a lady and they have wonderful adventures together and the girlkisses the beast and the spell breaks and he lives happily ever after. Personally I think this DVD is brilliant and is suitable for all ages. I think you should buy this DVD as it really does bring back memories.By Rohan Arora nineteen years old. ...
A number of beautiful women have been abducted by a man who calls himself Casanova. It falls on detective Alex Cross, to find the women before they are killed. The key witness is the only survivor of the horror. Strong-willed and resourceful she is determined to find the captives she left behind.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DIST. SERVICES
"...Freeman and Judd are well-cast..." (USA Today, p.8D, 03/10/1997)
DVD Description
In KISS THE GIRLS, a North Carolina police detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) tracks an elusive psychopath whose modus operandi is not necessarily killing the young women he abducts but "collecting" them as trophies. Unfortunately, his quarry includes the detective's own law-student niece, so his race against time, with the help of a no-nonsense medical intern Dr. Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd) who escaped the "collection," is all the more desperate. The film is a spare, by-the-numbers thriller, based on the series of novels by James Patterson.
Compare Kiss The Girls (DVD) to other similar Thriller & Mystery »
![Kiss The Girls [1998] [DVD]](http://picnicb.ciao.com/uk/78580755.jpg)
