Killing Me Softly (film)

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Killing Me Softly
Directed by Chen Kaige
Produced by Ivan Reitman
Written by Sean French
Kara Lindstrom
Starring Heather Graham
Joseph Fiennes
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) 25 March 2003 (USA)
Running time 100 min.
Language English
Budget $25,000,000
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Killing Me Softly is a 2002 film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. Based on the novel by Nicci French (pen name of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French), it introduces several substantial changes to the story and focuses heavily on the intense sexual relationship between the main characters (at least for the first half of the movie). Still, the book remains the most overtly erotic version of the story.

Tagline: How can you escape...what you can't resist?

The film was Chen Kaige's first, and to date only English-language film.

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[edit] Plot

Killing Me Softly is a mystery/thriller about a young woman, Alice (Heather Graham), who finds her happy relationship with her boyfriend and comfortable job unsatisfying every time she meets a handsome stranger, Adam (Joseph Fiennes). Becoming obsessed with Adam and his strange ways, she leaves her boyfriend. However, soon afterwards she learns that a serial killer is on the loose and begins to suspect Adam. She spends the remainder of the movie trying to uncover Adam's mysterious past and resist her sexual attraction towards him.

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[edit] Filming

Filming commenced on October 29, 2000 and was mostly based in or around London, England and Cumbria, England.

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Films directed by Chen Kaige
Yellow Earth (1984) • The Big Parade (1986) • King of Children (1987) • Life on a String (1991) • Farewell My Concubine (1992) • Temptress Moon (1996) • The Emperor and the Assassin (1999) • Killing Me Softly (2002) • Together (2002) • The Promise (2005) • Mei Lanfang (2008)
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