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Unlawful Entry (1992)

Unlawful Entry poster
Directed by
Jonathan Kaplan
Genre
drama film, crime film, mystery film, neo-noir
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 351 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married couple in Los Angeles becomes friends with a police officer after a home invasion. The officer develops an obsessive attachment to the wife and begins to terrorize them.

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What happens

Unlawful Entry is a 1992 American psychological thriller film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Kurt Russell, Madeleine Stowe and Ray Liotta. The film involves a couple who befriend a lonely policeman, only for him to develop an unrequited fixation on the wife, leading to chilling consequences. The movie received generally positive reviews, especially for Ray Liotta's performance, for which he was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain in 1993 for his portrayal of the psychopathic cop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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