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Mirror Images II

Mirror Images II

Released Jan 31st, 1994
Running Time 87
Director Gregory Hippolyte
Company Academy Entertainment
Critical Rating Not Yet Rated
Genre Alternative

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Though I defy you to say her name three times, fast (go ahead, try it —your tongue feels like it's shot full of novocaine), talented Shannon Whirry has emerged as the Meryl Streep of the erotic thriller genre. Here, in Mirror Images II, Ms. Whirry plays dysfunctional twins —one named Carrie, a pris; and the other named Terrie, whose libido is supplied with enough juice to fuel a manned space ship to the planet Pluto.

Of course, the key word here is dysfunctional, allowing the script of Mirror Images II (the original starred Delia Shephard) broad latitudes, playing mix and match personalities with sometimes confusing, but always, utterly shameless impunity.

As the years evolve and the girls inherit some loot, their respective roles have become a swiss melt of distorted psychoses. Carrie marries a cop-gone-bad (Luca Bercovici). Aside from the fact that one suspects Shannon might be getting type-cast because she's also married to a bad cop in Animal Instincts, (Maxwell Caulfield), her counterpart Luca's chief contribution to this melange seems to be his remarkable resemblance to a grown-up Charlie Schlatter. This is said more in jest, because Bercovici does reek of the essence of womanizing slime in this film.

For reasons other than the fact that her husband looks like Charlie Schlatter, Carrie/Shannon goes to a lady shrink to help her with her sexual diffidence, and, who also provides a convenient lesbian pairing for her. (After the act —Carrie: "Does this make me a lesbian?" Doc: "I certainly hope so.")

The sex scenes, which arrive with the punctuality of a tax deadline, are ripe and don't pull any punches; but the drama oft times gets in the way with the psychotic verbal melées and clinical hoodoo and mumbo jumbo. Give significant points to Ms. Whirry, though, whose earnest and bitchy sexuality makes this a Best Film nominee in the alternative category.



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