Irresistible
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 So who thinks we still haven’t had another really good Chiller since “The Hand that rocks the Cradle” or “Fatal Attraction” I know my hand is up, but what has the problem been? Was the bar set too high after movies like those? Could those heart-pumping narratives never be reiterated again on-screen? Well Acting veterans Sam Neil and Susan Sarandon have decided to enter the same arena, but do they manage to pull it off.
First of all it’s not much of a change for sweet old Susie to be playing an unsettled and paranoid wife who thinks that her husband is cheating on her. This is probably why she is so effective and believable. Sam Neil also does a great job as a comforting and at the same time antagonistic husband giving us just enough reasons to like him but also just enough to be not so sure. The story focuses on Sophie (Susan Sarandon) who looks after her two children with support from her busy architect husband Craig (Sam Neill). She becomes unsettled when she begins to hear strange noises in the house. Her feeling continues as tiny little disconcerting things start to happen like family photos and belongings going missing from various rooms. This is made worse by Craig’s new assistant Mara (Emily Blunt), a young attractive woman who, without explanation, seems suspiciously interested in her new boss’s family. Sophie starts to catch on to this and despite feeling like she is going crazy she sets out to discover exactly what her motives are. Thinking her marriage and her family are in danger, she takes drastic steps to discover what is happening around her but the truth turns out to be far worse than she expected. Writer and Director Ann Turner did a great job at delivering this story from Sophie’s point of view, thereby allowing us to discover things from her perspective. Thank goodness Sarandon is on absolute top form here, putting across perhaps her best performance in recent years. The film also has a really unexpected conclusion which I think adds to the quality and makes things a little less predictable. Well worth a watch. Faced with problems like the ones confronting the main character in Irresistible, any normal woman would begin to doubt her own sanity. Played by Susan Sarandon at the top of her game, Sophie Hartley is mourning the recent death of her mother, trying to be a super mom to two little daughters and a good wife to her husband -- all the while struggling to meet deadlines as an illustrator. This frazzled woman becomes concerned when items go missing from the house and she hears strange noises in various rooms. Sophie thinks someone is entering her home with evil intentions. Who could it be and what would that person want? Or is Sophie showing symptoms of paranoia? Combining elements of Gaslight and What Lies Beneath, writer/director Ann Turner (Celia) has crafted an involving psychological thriller that had me guessing about what was happening to the very end. I absolutely love this kind of suspense movie! Because Sarandon delivers such a convincing performance, I was with Sophie every step of the way -- even when she did seemingly irresponsible things like stalking the woman she picked as her main suspect. As I mention in my book Susan Sarandon: A True Maverick, Sarandon admits she prefers portraying “strong but imperfect women who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and what these women do is at great cost to themselves.” In Irresistible, her character certainly meets these requirements. Sophie is strong, but she’s going through a bad time in her life. Thinking her marriage and her family are in danger, she takes dramatic actions that put her in great peril, both emotionally and physically. Sarandon, brilliant at projecting a combination of strength and vulnerability (remember Reggie Love in The Client?), runs away with this movie -- as she’s done with so many others. However, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park III) and Emily Blunt (My Summer of Love) also excel as Sophie’s worried husband and sexy co-worker. In the early part of the movie, the always reliable Neill makes his character look like the perfect spouse. He appears concerned about his wife’s welfare and seems above suspicion. Later, Neill adds a bit of an edge to the husband, just enough to cause us to wonder about him. Blunt’s role requires her to exude the sexual attraction of a younger woman and to make viewers as suspicious of her as Sophie is, which she accomplishes -- in no small part because of her natural beauty. Although the twist ending in Irresistible surprised me completely, it makes perfect sense. Susan Sarandon ... Sophie Sam Neill ... Craig Emily Blunt ... Mara Charles 'Bud' Tingwell ... Sam (as Bud Tingwell) William McInnes ... Jimmy Georgie Parker ... Jen Terry Norris ... Magistrate Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik ... Elly Lauren Mikkor ... Ruby Heather Mitchell ... Rina Jill Forster ... Helen Joelene Crnogorac ... Anastasia Geneviève Picot ... Mara's Nurse Carolyn Bock ... Sophie's Nurse Alethea McGrath ... Maggie IMDB Trailer Download Torrent 
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