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Black Widow (1987) | User Rating
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Release Date
Feb 6, 1987 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 3, 2004
Running Time
1 hour, 42 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox, American Entertainment Partners, Americent Films
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Other Titles
• Black Widow
• Die Schwarze Witwe (1987)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Suspense, Serial Killer, Racy, Murder, Femme Fatale, Marriage
Tagline: She mates and she kills.
Plot: The black widow spider mates to kill--and so does the femme fatale of this noir thriller. Catharine (Theresa Russell) makes quite a glamorous living by marrying well and then carefully murdering her devoted husbands after ensuring that her name's on the will. No one suspects that the beautiful and affluent widow is actually a killer, as she hides her tracks well, using undetectable poisons. But her luck turns when federal agent Alexandra Barnes (Debra Winger) takes a closer look into the case and suspects she's found a serial killer. Soon Barnes books a flight to Hawaii, where Catharine's doing her mourning in the sun, and discovers that the widow has already gotten her claws into a highly successful hotel tycoon. However, Barnes quickly becomes obsessed with both her alluring subject and with the sophisticated businessman--a situation Catharine is sure to exploit. Like THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, director Bob Rafelson's BLACK WIDOW refers to an earlier noir film of the same name (directed by Nunnally Johnson in 1954), though similarities stop at the ruthless title character.
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| Directed by |
Bob Rafelson
Five Easy Pieces, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Blood and Wine |
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| Written by |
Ronald Bass
Rain Man, Entrapment, My Best Friend's Wedding |
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| Cast |
Debra Winger
An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, Radio |
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 | Diane Ladd
Chinatown, Christmas Vacation, Wild at Heart |
 | Sami Frey
Band of Outsiders, Cléo de 5 à 7, D'Artagnan's Daughter | | |
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| Music By |
Michael Small
Jaws: The Revenge, Marathon Man, The Postman Always Rings Twice |
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