Rating: TVMA
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 08/01/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: HBO Home Video
The sensationalistic murder of diet guru
Dr. Herman Tarnower is explored in this stylized take on the tabloid cover story from first-time director
Phyllis Nagy. As the inventor of the popular "Scarsdale Diet,"
Dr. Herman Tarnower (
Ben Kingsley) became an overnight success during the peak of the early '80s diet craze. Despite the popularity of the
Dr. Tarnower's revolutionary "lose one pound per day" diet, the womanizing ways of the Casanova cardiologist would soon come to a brutal end at the hands of his jealous, prescription drug-addicted lover
Jean Harris (
Annette Bening). Driven to despair after their 14-year romance failed to result in marriage and enraged by
Dr. Tarnower's shameless status as a ladies' man,
Harris confronts her former lover in one violent, final act of desperation.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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