''Mirage'' is a 1995

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directed by Paul Williams and starred by

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Plot

There's this detective dude who's hired to follow some guy's wife because she keeps getting herself into trouble. She suffers from severe headaches and loss of memory. She never seems to know what's going on. it turns out she's got a split personality. This split personality is the one getting her in trouble.

Cast

as Matteo Juarez *

as Jennifer Gale * James Andronica as Lt. Richie Randazzo * Paul Williams as Donald Gale *

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as Sayed * Eric Morris as The Police Captain * Susan Helen Emerson as Miranda Randazzo * William Grillo as Carmine Randazzo * Tony King as Nude Bar Tall Thug

Reception

Emanuel Levy of ''

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'' wrote that "Alfred Hitchcock deserves better than the atrocious homage he gets in Paul Williams ''Mirage'', an incoherent thriller that can’t decide whether to slavishly copy Hitchcock’s ''

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'' or make a satire out of it. Preposterous plotting and radical changes in tone dictate the fate of this routine B picture as straight-to-video. Closing-night selection of the Palm Springs Film Festival was greeted with laughter and sneers by a bewildered audience." J.R Taylor of ''

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'' said that "Ultimately, all this convolution leads to a cliffside climax so amusingly absurd it’s worth the rental fee."

References

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* 1995 action thriller films 1995 films American action thriller films Films directed by Paul Williams 1990s English-language films 1990s American films {{1990s-action-film-stub