Perfect Alibi
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| Directed by | Kevin Meyer |
| Written by | Kevin Meyer |
| Based on | Where's Mommy Now? by Rochelle Majer Krich |
| Produced by | William Hart |
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| Cinematography | Doyle Smith |
| Edited by | David H. Lloyd |
| Music by | Amotz Plessner |
| Distributed by | Rysher Entertainment |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Perfect Alibi is a 1995 American crime film directed by Kevin Meyer and starring Teri Garr and Hector Elizondo.[1][2][3][4] It is based on the 1990 novel Where's Mommy Now? by Rochelle Majer Krich.[5]
Plot
[edit | edit source]The wealthy Melanie and Keith Bauers are a married couple with two beautiful children. Melanie decides to hire a French au pair, Janine. At first, things in the household run smoothly under Janine's care. However Melanie's sister Paula discovers that Janine and Keith are having an adulterous affair and is thereafter killed in an accident. Soon, Melanie turns up dead as well. Laney Tolbert, Melanie's best friend, teams up with a police detective to find the culprits responsible.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Teri Garr as Laney Tolbert
- Hector Elizondo as Detective Ryker
- Alex McArthur as Keith Bauers
- Lydie Denier as Janine
- Kathleen Quinlan as Melanie Bauers
- Charles Martin Smith as Franklin Dupard
- Anne Ramsay as Paula Simpson
- Gedde Watanabe as Detective Onoda
- Bruce McGill as Detective Spivak
Critical reception
[edit | edit source]Time Out wrote, "Your basic Hand That Rocks the Cradle knock-off. French au pair, employed by wealthy Americans, takes charge of kids, husband, house and car, edging the wife and mother out of the picture and rubbing out anyone in the way. Family friend Garr investigates, helped by sympathetic cop Elizondo and sleazy private eye Smith, leading to a highly uninteresting conclusion. With its boring, high-key TV-movie look, banal script, and comatose performances, it makes Curtis Hanson's creaky Rebecca De Mornay vehicle seem the pinnacle of the genre."[6]
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External links
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- 1995 films
- 1995 crime thriller films
- 1995 direct-to-video films
- Films based on American novels
- Films about au pairs
- Films about adultery in the United States
- Films about uxoricide
- Films set in Beverly Hills, California
- 1990s English-language films
- American crime thriller films
- 1990s American films
- English-language crime films
- 1990s crime film stubs
- 1990s American film stubs