Last time out, Annabella Sciorra played a trusting young motherwith an ideal marriage whose suburban dream boat got rocked by herno-no nanny. In the new psycho thriller, "Whispers in the Dark," Ms.Pitiful plays a trusting young Manhattan psychiatrist with a badrelationship whose life and career get jarred by people who are offtheir rockers.
Her shift benefits her in one way: "Whispers" has a deeper, morecolorful cast to absorb its idiocies than "Cradle" had. But with theexception of one lulu of a scene (a great/awful classic I should butwon't reveal), there's still no tolerating this as more than anotherbutton-pusher's delight.
The film begins with Sciorra's Dr. Ann Hecker being disturbed byher erotic dreams - dreams, she realizes, that are based on the bondagefantasies presented as fact by a client named Eve (Deborah Unger, inthe film's best - as in actually good - turn). A beautiful, tough,sexy art gallery owner, she's inclined to bare her skin in session aswell as her soul.
"I'm not in love with her?" an intimidated Ann nervously asksher fatherly mentor, Dr. Leo Green (Alan Alda), whose wife (JillClayburgh) also is a shrink. He shrugs it off. Just to make sure,though, Ann quickly falls for the perfect gentle manly man, DougMcDowell (Jamey Sheridan). The guy flies planes. But wouldn'tyou know it - stop reading here if you don't like stuff given away -she discovers he's Eve's many-fabled lover. Then Eve turns up dead,Doug turns up surly (with a dead wife in his closet to boot), anotherof Ann's patients - violent painter Fast Johnny C (John Leguizamo) -turns up arrested, and Ann turns up in the wrong clutches.
What's a cynical but caring Jewish cop (Anthony LaPaglia) to do?Written and directed in supremely disjointed fashion by ChristopherCrowe ("Off Limits"), "Whispers" relies to an obnoxious degree onpulling surprises out of thin air, while conveniently dropping issuesit's raised. It hates women, hates shrinks (there are ethicalhowlers galore), may well hate sex and, in continually offending theaudience's intelligence, certainly hates us.
Well, there's no reason we can't hate back.
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