Stars: Ed Harris, Madeline Stowe, Charles Dance, Benicio Del Toro

Director: John Bailey

Summary: Homicide detective Kyle Bodine struggles to distinguish between truth and deception in this story of passion and bloody murder.

In this sumptuous erotic thriller, a small town detective has a passionate affair with a stunning local woman. When her wealthy husband is brutally murdered, her lover is immediately suspected and he must stumble through a maze of deceit to find out the truth and clear his name.

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China Moon(1991) is a pleasing entertainment that assembles the dependable elements of film noirin the tradition of Body Heat(1981), The Last Seduction(1994) and, of course, the mother of all such films, Double Indemnity(1944). There's a femme fatale (the beautiful and talented Madeleine Stowe) and an honest cop (reliable Ed Harris) who soon becomes smitten. Her husband (Charles Dance) is a brute who beats her, so she murders him and inveigles Harris into helping her dispose of the body. That's when the complications begin, and Harris starts to sweat when his fellow cop keeps asking awkward questions. The acting is uniformly good, with Harris' partner played by Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) offering an excellent performance. Harris and Stowe strike sparks off each other, to the point where you almost believe he is being sucked into her schemes.

On the DVD:The disc contains a theatrical trailer and several TV ads, with scroll-down filmographies of the major talents involved which are incomplete for some unknown reason. There's a brief and unenlightening five-minute documentary, with the principal cast plus the director, John Bailey, commenting on the film. Both image and sound are excellent quality, sound in Dolby Digital, picture in anamorphic widescreen ratio of 2.35:1 --Ed Buscombe

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Behind The Scenes Featurette, The Making Of, Filmographies, Theatrical Trailers, TV Spots, Interactive Menus, Scene Selections
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
Year:	1994
Release Date:	July 30, 2001
Runtime:	96 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 13655
Keywords:	Moon, China, General, Wide, Screen, Drama
Genre:	Drama