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Star Trek will never have a cast as expansive as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's again. At the heart of Star Trek are the scores of beloved characters that generations of fans have come to adore. From noble Captains like James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), and Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), to the multitudes of Starfleet Officers and alien characters populating Star Trek's ever-growing universe, it's the people and their stories that keep audiences coming back for more. No Star Trek show, however, could match the impressively massive cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ran for seven seasons in syndication from 1993-1999. The first spinoff of Star Trek: The Next Generation, DS9 broke Star Trek's established mold centering on the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Deep Space Nine was set aboard the eponymous space station led by Commander...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery's finale, "Life, Itself".

Star Trek: Discovery explored Progenitor origins in season 5, linking back to Tng's classic episode "The Chase". Salome Jens played pivotal roles in Star Trek history, as both a Progenitor in Tng and the Female Changeling in DS9. Diversity was highlighted in Discovery by casting a new actor as a Progenitor, continuing Jens' contribution to the Star Trek universe.

All life in the Star Trek universe began with the Progenitors, an alien species originated by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor, Salome Jens. Star Trek: The Next Generation season 6, episode 18, "The Chase" revealed that billions of years before the Star Trek timeline begins, an ancient alien race planted their DNA as seeds from which all humanoid life grew. Star Trek: Discovery season 5 returned to this concept, by sending Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery in search of the Progenitors' technology.

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery's Season 5 & Series Finale - "Life, Itself"

The Progenitor Captain Burnham meets reveals ancient technology with the power of creation, and charges her with choosing its fate. A Nigerian actress portrays the Progenitor in Discovery's finale, presenting Burnham with a moral dilemma. Salome Jens played the original Progenitor, called an Ancient Humanoid, in Star Trek: Tng.

Who plays the Progenitor Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) meets in Star Trek: Discovery's series finale? The USS Discovery's season-long search for the Progenitors' technology finally comes to a close in the series finale, as Captain Burnham literally comes face-to-face with one of the creators of humanoid life in the galaxy. Since Burnham has proven herself worthy by passing every test to acquire the power of creation, the Progenitor charges Michael with the awesome responsibility of choosing what to do with ancient and powerful technology.

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Star Trek: DS9 almost had its first Romulan crew member in "The Search" but the character was dropped. USS Defiant broke Starfleet rules by having a cloaking device assigned by the Romulans, overseen by Sub Commander T'Rul. Sub Commander T'Rul was supposed to be a recurring character, but the producers saw limited potential.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had plans to introduce the franchise's first Romulan crew member, but the character was abandoned after only two episodes. After centuries of being enemies, the threat posed by the Dominion eventually forced the Federation into an alliance with the Romulan Star Empire in DS9 season 6. Three years earlier, there were plans to introduce a recurring Romulan crew member to the cast of Star Trek: DS9 in the two-part season 3 opener, "The Search".

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 3, episode 1, "The Search, Part 1" has a number of firsts for the show. "The Search" introduces the USS Defiant,...

Practically speaking, there's a reason why most aliens on "Star Trek" are humanoid. Not only are they humanoid, but they all share very similar specific features: two legs, two arms, two eyes, one mouth, teeth, and/or hair. Many aliens look identical to humans apart from ridges on their foreheads or elaborate skin markings. This is because all the aliens on "Star Trek" are played by human actors. Very occasionally, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) might encounter a Melkot or a Tholian who were achieved through puppetry or photographic effects, but for the most part, aliens were played by Earth's boring ol' Homo sapiens actors.

By the time the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Chase" aired on April 26, 1993, Trekkies had been watching the franchise long enough to ask why — from an in-canon perspective — all aliens looked like humans. "The Chase" came up with a cute (if not wholly satisfying...

Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 4, "Face the Strange"Mutineer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) calls her future self a "shapeshifter" during Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 4, but does this mean that she's aware of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Changeling villains? In Discovery season 5, episode 4, "Face the Strange", Burnham, Commander Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie) and Commander Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) are thrown backwards and forwards in time by a Krenim time bug. To return to the 32nd century, Burnham is forced to fight her younger self, who believes that she's a shapeshifting infiltrator determined to sabotage the USS Discovery.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 4, "Face the Strange" was written by Sean Cochran and directed by Lee Rose.

Changeling infiltrators caused many problems for Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the crew of Deep Space Nine during the Dominion War. However, DS9's conflict with...

Superman writer-director James Gunn has cast his Ma Kent. After it was announced that Pruitt Taylor Vince would be playing Jonathan Kent, it's been revealed that Neva Howell has been cast in the role of Martha.

Per TheWrap, Neva Howell will play Ma Kent alongside Pruitt's Pa Kent in Superman, the new Dcu film set to hit theaters in July 2025. Howell has previously appeared in movies like Fever Dreams, Logan Lucky, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. She also had roles in the TV shows The Originals, The Resident, and Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.

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Martha Kent is the adoptive mother of Clark Kent. In film, she was previously portrayed in live-action by Phyllis Thaxter...

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Cleveland Booker and Moll have a complicated connection, tied to her estranged relationship with his mentor, Booker IV. The USS Discovery races against Moll and L'ak to find ancient Progenitors' treasure, linked to humanoid life creation in the galaxy. Book aims to connect with Moll, as he seeks redemption and a sense of family after enduring unimaginable personal loss.

Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) and Moll (Eve Harlow) have a connection in Star Trek: Discovery season 5 that's more complicated than mere family ties. Book returns to the USS Discovery and reunites with his former flame, Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) after making restitution for betraying the United Federation of Planets in Star Trek: Discovery season 4. Burnham recruited Book's expertise to find two villainous couriers, Moll and L'ak (Elias Toufexis), but Cleveland's investigation into the couple quickly gets personal.

Moll and L'ak are in...

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 3 - "Jinaal"

Discovery season 5 continues the chase for Progenitors' technology, introduced in Tng's "The Chase". Janaal reveals how Federation handled Progenitor discovery, keeping technology hidden for peace. The Federation's past missteps led to hesitation in trusting Starfleet with powerful technology.

Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Chase" introduced some big ideas to the Star Trek universe that Star Trek: Discovery season 5 is finally following up on. Discovery season 5 involves a literal chase in Star Trek's 32nd century, as Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the crew of the USS Discovery race to find the Progenitors' treasure before the villainous Moll (Eve Harlow) and L'ak (Elias Toufexis). Although unnamed at the time, the Progenitors were first introduced in Tng season 6, episode 20, "The Chase," when Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) helped uncover a message left by one of the ancient humanoids.

In Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3, "Jinaal,...

The Vorta were genetically engineered by the Changelings to serve as administrators and loyal servants in the Dominion. Weyoun, played by Jeffrey Combs, was a notable Vorta character who oversaw Dominion operations. Some actors, like Combs and Christopher Shea, played multiple clones or different Vorta characters throughout the series.

The Vorta played a vital role within the Dominion during Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. First introduced in DS9 season 2, episode 26, "The Jem'Hadar", the Vorta encountered by Commander Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and Quark (Armin Shimerman) was the devious Eris (Molly Hagan) who masqueraded as a fellow prisoner to gain information about Starfleet and the Federation. After this first encounter, the Vorta would feature heavily in DS9, with various members of their species making life difficult for Sisko and the crew.

Weyoun (Jeffrey Combs) was the loyal aide to the Female Changeling (Salome Jens) and played an integral role in overseeing the Dominion's military efforts.

Odo's approach to law enforcement on Deep Space Nine was progressive, as he never relied on guns or lethal force. Odo's Changeling abilities and brusque manner allowed him to surprise and intimidate criminals without violence. Odo only used a phaser once in the entire series, breaking his rule when he believed Kira's life was in danger, highlighting his deep love for her.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's supercop Constable Odo (Rene Auberjonois) never carried a gun and there was a very good reason why he once broke this rule. In DS9 season 1, episode 5, "Captive Pursuit", the titular space station becomes an unwitting location for an intergalactic hunt after a damaged ship arrives from the Gamma Quadrant. Aboard the ship is Tosk (Scott MacDonald) a member of a reptile species that is specifically bred to be hunted by a species known only as the Hunters. When the Hunters beam...

The experiences of Constable Odo in the early DS9 episode foreshadowed the motives of the Dominion's Changeling villains. Odo's loyalty to his friends on Deep Space Nine clashed with the Changeling Founders, setting up a major conflict in the show's final years. Odo's mistreatment by the Bajorans in "A Man Alone" reflects the prejudice and mistreatment the Changelings endure, showing the strength of his character.

The experiences of Constable Odo (Rene Auberjonois) in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "A Man Alone" foreshadowed the motives of the Dominion's Changeling villains. The clash between Odo's loyalty to his friends aboard Deep Space Nine and the Changeling Founders would play a big role in DS9's final years. "A Man Alone" is only the third episode in Deep Space Nine season 1, at which point Odo's origins were unknown to him and the writers themselves. However, the fear and suspicion...

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 4 - "No Win Scenario"Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 4, "No Win Scenario," surprisingly revealed that Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer) answers to another. Apparently, the rogue Changelings who are Picard season 3's villains have a boss, who is billed as The Face and voiced by Garth Kemp. This swerve upends what was previously known about the Changelings and their culture from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Captain Vadic's mission in Star Trek: Picard season 3 is to capture Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), the son of Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) and Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). What the Changelings want with Jack isn't clear, but he seems to be crucial to their greater scheme of attacking Starfleet, which is tied to the 250th anniversary Frontier Day celebration. As part of their plot, the Changelings performed a heist and stole experimental weapons from Daystrom Station,...

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Picard Season 3, Episode 3 - "Seventeen Seconds"In a true shocker, Star Trek: Picard season 3 has brought back the Changelings from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as its main villains! Going into Star Trek: Picard season 3, showrunner Terry Matalas promised that the final season would also serve as a sequel to DS9 and Star Trek: Voyager. After several clues were doled out in Star Trek: Picard season 3's first two episodes, the curtain dropped as the shapeshifting rulers of the Dominion are now officially back.

The Changelings, also known as the Founders, are the leaders of the Dominion and control the Gamma Quadrant. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the shapeshifting Founders, along with their lackeys the Vorta, and their shock troops, the Jem'Hadar, allied with Cardassia to wage war on the United Federation of Planets. After nearly capitulating, the Federation won the Dominion War by...

The Changelings were one of the biggest threats in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine due in part to their ability to take the form of anything from furniture to animals to members of the DS9 crew. This gave the Changelings - known as the Founders of the Dominion - the upper hand both before and during the Dominion War, as they were able to infiltrate key targets within the Alpha Quadrant. As the Dominion and their Cardassian allies sought to subjugate the "solids" in the Alpha Quadrant, the Founders took the form of some high-profile DS9 characters.

The Changelings' unmatched ability to infiltrate and impersonate led to paranoia and distrust within the United Federation of Planets. This resulted in an attempted military coup led by Admiral Leyton (Robert Foxworth), Captain Benjamin Sisko's (Avery Brooks) commanding officer. Leyton sought Starfleet control over Earth and to implement more Draconian and militaristic tactics...

As the titular space station's head of security, Constable Odo (Rene Auberjonois), a Changeling, was an integral part of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and he was eventually pitted against his own kind during the Dominion War. The Changelings were one of several new races introduced to Star Trek canon by DS9, and they proved to be both a fascinating species and a worthy foe for the Federation. Possessing no solid form, the Changelings were capable of assuming any form, and this metamorphic ability led to distrust and often violent reactions from the many species they encountered.

The Changelings responded to the violence and distrust they met at the hands of the "Solids" by retreating to a planet where they existed as a hive mind - the Great Link. They plotted to restore order to the galaxy, creating the Jem'Hadar and enlisting the Vorta ahead of DS9's Dominion War.

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3, Episode 9 - "Trusted Sources"In a big surprise, Star Trek: Lower Decks brought back a villainous alien race feared by the United Federation of Planets: the Breen! Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3, episode 9 introduced Project Swing By, Captain Carol Freeman's (Dawnn Lewis) pet project for the USS Cerritos and the California-class starships. To prove the viability of Project Swing By, the Cerritos made Second Contact with the planets Ornara and Brekka, only to find the latter had been attacked by the Breen.

The Breen originated as a bit of a running joke that was repeatedly mentioned but never seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation. When the Breen finally appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 4, there was nothing funny about the alien killers. The Breen returned during the final DS9 seasons as major players in the Dominion War. Little...

Chicago – John Frankenheimer’s “Seconds” with Rock Hudson was considered an unusual choice for The Criterion Collection when it was announced earlier this year. Never before available on Blu-ray and discontinued on DVD, the 4K restoration on this edition is the real draw, especially given that the film’s strength lies in its stunning visual compositions. With its canted angles and fish bowl aesthetic, Frankenheimer enhances what is actually a relatively weak script.

“Seconds” is a film that I want to adore given my love for the filmmaker’s other works (especially “The Manchurian Candidate,” another ode to ’60s paranoia) and how I love well-written “Twilight Zone”-esque tales, but repeat viewing of this release reveals the film to be thematically thinner than it should be. There are some great ideas here about personality, success, and apathy but they’re not explored and the final twist is one that modern...

Selected for the Main Comp at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966, John Frankenheimer’s Seconds is a grim, nightmarish thriller that embodies many distinctive aspects of 1960s American cinema. Largely forgotten – one could argue for good reason – by all but the most devoted Frankenheimer fans, the film combines classic noir stylistics with the era’s emerging tremors of social revolution. Folded into the mix are elements of Sci-Fi and speculative fiction, creating a “what if” story filled with metaphors, meditations and mind-games.

The snappy plot begins with some odd occurrences in the quietly desperate life of Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph), a 50-ish, dry as toast bank manager who commutes into the city every day from his tidy colonial in leafy Scarsdale. Recently, the unnerved Hamilton has been receiving phone calls from an old college buddy long thought to be dead. This voice from the past entices Hamilton with vague promises...

After watching John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966) for the first time with this Criterion Blu-ray, I couldn't help but think of several previous Criterion Blu-ray titles that came to mind. Films such as Alexander Mackendrick's Sweet Smell of Success, Roman Polanski's Repulsion and Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly. You could even through in the feel of a Samuel Fuller film and even a little of Ingmar Bergman's Persona. For anyone that knows these films, that's pretty high praise and while Seconds may be better than a couple and below the others, the mere fact this film put me in the mood and mindset to even consider the comparisons is enough for me to say you really ought to give this one a look. Based on the novel by David Ely, I can't remember if Seconds ever gives us a definitive date in which it's set, but suffice...

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Scary Seconds And Jewel-laden Irony

By Raymond Benson

Among the new releases this month from The Criterion Collection, that Cadillac of Blu-Ray/DVD labels, are two oldies-but-goodies—and very different ones—that will impress both the average film lover and the hardcore art house enthusiast. For me, the most anticipated title was Seconds, the 1966 paranoia-science fiction-mystery-thriller directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Rock Hudson in a cast-against-type role. There’s no question that the picture was ahead of its time. The circumstances sound familiar—it was a very intelligent, well-made, strikingly photographed genre movie that audiences found too strange or unpleasant, and it flopped... but later, because it really was good, it became a cult classic.

Seconds is a shocking film today; in 1966, it was radical. It was considered an “adults-only” movie, even though its release was prior...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 13, 2013

Price: DVD $29.99, Blu-ray $39.99

Studio: Criterion

Rock Hudson gets more than he bargained for when he embarks on a new life in Seconds.

Rock Hudson (All That Heaven Allows) star in Seconds, a sinister, science-fiction-inflected thriller from the fractured 1960s directed by John Frankenheimer (Grand Prix).

The 1966 film concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life. Starting over in America, however, is not as easy as it sounds, even if the new you looks like, well, Rock Hudson.

This paranoiac movie filled with canted camera angles (courtesy of cinematographer James Wong Howe of Sweet Smell of Success), fragmented editing, and layered sound design is a remarkably risk-taking Hollywood film that ranks high on the list of its director’s major achievements.

The DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film...

Seconds

Directed by John Frankenheimer

Written by David Ely and Lewis John Carlino

1966, USA

Not for weak sisters! May not even be for strong stomachs!

John Frankenheimer’s ultimately terrifying Twilight Zone-like, futuristic thriller Seconds, received mixed reviews, and was critically panned at the Cannes Film Festival. But what do they know? Seconds is a chilling character study and a distressing examination of happiness, loneliness, consumerism, and the American dream. This paranoid take on the legend of Faust remains widely unseen. Thankfully repeated showings on late night television helped the film find a much deserved cult following.

A New York businessman Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is recruited by the services of an secret organization which provides unhappily married middle-aged businessmen with new lives. Arthur is told that with some highly evolved plastic surgery, physical reconditioning and a promise of a new career, he can become a young man again and begin a new life.

Applauding with the Outfest audience at the Harmony Gold Theater last Wednesday night after a sneak peek of NBC's upcoming TV show Smash, I felt as if I'd just seen something new. Los Angeles Times TV critic Mary McNamara succinctly described Smash as Glee meets A Chorus Line.

Yes, it's that and Glee's predecessor Fame. But it's also a lively meditation on creativity, on transforming inspiration into action and something real. Perhaps most importantly, using theater as a framework, Smash explores the good, bad, and ugly of living lives totally focused on the possibility of fulfilling a big dream. Smash aptly premiers on Monday, Feb. 6, after NBC's hit show The Voice, as if answering the question: what happens to those contestant winners and runners-up after the reality show ends?

In the case of American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee, she landed in this Shakespearian-tinged, reality-based tale about the making of...

Rock Hudson Rock Hudson: Dark And Handsome Stranger Documentary The synopsis below of Andrew Davies and Andre Shafer's Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger is from the Berlin Film Festival website: Rock Hudson was a dream of a man; the epitome of masculinity: tall, slim and muscular, with a deep, mellifluous voice. His glossy black hair, sparkling eyes, high cheek bones and sensuous lips made Rock Hudson one of the sexiest film stars that Hollywood has ever produced. Twenty-five years ago, shortly before his sixtieth birthday, Rock Hudson died of Aids-related illnesses. He was the first Hollywood celebrity to succumb to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. But who was Rock Hudson really? This documentary sheds light on a famous actor star who performed a clandestine balancing act between his private and public lives; between the heterosexual world of an extremely manly looking screen idol and a darker side of forbidden...

Film and TV director made famous by his 'Gidget' surf movies

Despite a long and varied career, in which he made several excellent films noirs, westerns, thrillers and war dramas, and a fair number of superior television movies, it was the wry fate of the film and television director Paul Wendkos, who has died of a lung infection aged 87, that his death was announced widely with the words "Gidget director dies".

The popular teen surf movies – Gidget (1959), Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) – directed by Wendkos, are interesting documents of pre-hippy conservative California youth culture. Gidget, a contraction of girl and midget, is the nickname of a 16-year-old adolescent (played in succession by Sandra Dee, Deborah Walley and Cindy Carol) trying to cope with the problems of growing up, mainly defined by her relationship with her boyfriend, Moondoggie (James Darren).

According to the Variety review of...

While Sean Penn’s recent Best Actor Oscar win for Milk helped bring Harvey Milk’s message to a wide audience — both from the increased visibility of the film and from Penn’s moving acceptance speech — the occasion marked another instance of a Hollywood tradition: a gay character played by a heterosexual actor.

Penn, like Tom Hanks (Philadelphia [1993]) and William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman [1985]) before him, was praised for his “bravery” for taking on the role and even — eek! — kissing another man.

Gay actors, on the other hand, get no such credit for playing gay roles; let’s not forget the year that Rupert Everett’s hilarious supporting turn in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) was ignored by the Academy, with the implication that queer thespians need merely show up to play queer characters, with no actual acting involved. (To add insult to injury, that same year saw...

A Tinseltown family unravels in writer-director Bruce Wagner's feature debut, based on his well-regarded novel. Audiences are invited to share the pain of a father diagnosed with a terminal disease, a grown-up niece unlucky in love, and a wayward son in a shameful business. Unfortunately, "I'm Losing You" goes seriously astray in its downhill plunge.

Playing exclusively at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in West Hollywood and in New York, the Strand release of a Killer Films and Lions Gate Films production may show a little life on the art house circuit on its way to moderate success as a video rental.

Successful TV producer Perry Krohn (Frank Langella) has made millions off his "Star Trek"-like empire, but the doctor informs him he's got only months to live. At his birthday party, he keeps the dire news a secret from his successful single niece Rachel (Rosanna Arquette), whom he adopted as an infant, and sometime actor son Bertie (Andrew McCarthy).

Delaying the familial scenes of shared grief, Wagner profiles the cousins and their depressing lives. Bertie has so far refused to let his dad help his acting career and instead "sells short" the life insurance policies of AIDS patients, including one of Perry's loyal collaborators (Buck Henry). An appraiser at a tony auction house, Rachel pursues younger men and wonders about her past when she encounters someone who knew her parents, tragically killed in a car wreck ... or were they?

Perry's wife of many years, Diantha, (Salome Jens) has overlooked his unfaithfulness, and he rewards her by embarking on one last affair with the British star (Amanda Donohoe) of his TV show. Similarly attracted to smart, experienced women, Bertie attends an upbeat party of company town "H.I.V.I.P.'S" and meets wary Aubrey (Elizabeth Perkins). Of course he hides from her his reason for being there.

Piling on the melodrama, Bertie's ex-wife Lidia (Gina Gershon) is a druggie with a scary temper, and she proves to be irresponsible with their daughter. Things on this front get much worse, and the kind of overwhelming tragedy that would change everything happens too swiftly and inconsequentially in Wagner's progressively more unbelievable scenario, which includes a critical morgue scene that doesn't have the emotional wallop intended.

Laraine Newman appears briefly as the casting person who welcomes Bertie to Perry's on-screen family, while Rachel discovers the shocking truth about her parents and the role played by her uncle in events kept secret for decades. It all comes down hard on the Krohn tribe, but the viewer is doubly cursed with blase characters and routine filmmaking to go with the unnecessarily lurid and forgettably dreary material.

I'M LOSING YOU

Strand Releasing

Killer Films and Lions Gate Films

Writer-director: Bruce Wagner

Producers: Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon

Executive producers: David Cronenberg, Michael Paseornek

Director of photography: Rob Sweeney

Production designer: Richard Sherman

Editor: Janice Hampton

Costumes: Theadora Van Runkle

Music: Daniel Catan

Casting: Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith, Kerry Barden

Color/stereo

Cast:

Bertie: Andrew McCarthy

Rachel: Rosanna Arquette

Perry: Frank Langella

Diantha: Salome Jens

Philip: Buck Henry

Aubrey: Elizabeth Perkins

Lidia: Gina Gershon

Mona Deware: Amanda Donohoe

Running time -- 102 minutes

MPAA rating: R...