Stars: Faye Dunaway, Daniel J. Travanti, Kim Cattrall, John Laughlin, Ned Beatty

Director: Roger Holzberg

Summary: A businessman arranges a trip to the Caribbean on board a luxury yacht as a present for his blind wife. But, unknown to her, his real reason for the trip is to recover a hoard of stolen money from a tiny island. Unfortunately, the trip turns into a nightmare of deceit, violence and treachery.

A cruise to the Bahamas is a dream come true for two couples. But all is not smooth sailing, as the past encroaches on the present, and the promise of a stashed fortune combined with too many deceits connect the foursome in a deadly game of intrigue and murder.

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With a pounding, synthesised sound track, big-haired babes in bikinis and succession of increasingly incredible fight scenes and returns from the dead, Midnight Crossingtakes some beating as an eminently watchable slab of 1980s schlock. Honesty is a premium in this torrid tale of a buried fortune, hot sex, deceit on the high seas and much extended suspense. Jeff Shub (John Laughlin), a six-packed hunk in tight shorts, lives for his yacht, inherited from his father. When his wife's boss Morley (married to a blind woman and played by Daniel J Travanti) charters the yacht for a birthday celebration, the two couples head off for the Bahamas. Then, Morley reveals his real agenda--the recovery of treasure he buried on a Cuban island in the pre-Castro years--and it soon becomes clear that nothing and nobody are what they seem.

Kim Cattrall, years before her emergence as a stylish television star in Sex and the City, pops up in a in a wet t-shirt. And at the film's centre is a knockout, beyond self-parody performance from Faye Dunaway. Here she plays Joan Crawford playing a blind woman who might not, in fact, be blind at all. Dunaway confirms the suspicion that she was an actress born 30 years too late for the kind of scripts that would have best served her unique brand of throbbing melodrama. The rest of the cast, particularly the usually reliable Travanti, soon follow her over the top. The result is a compulsive 90 minutes of hammy and thoroughly enjoyable action.

On the DVD:Presented in letterbox widescreen (1.85:1) format for maximum effect Midnight Crossingsurfaces pretty much as it did in the cinema. Picture quality is fine. The daylight scenes on board the yacht certainly benefit but the interminable night-time struggles are less convincing. Were they shot in a tank? Probably, if the dull stereo sound quality at this point is anything to go by. Extras are limited to the original cinema trailer and filmographies of the leading players.--Piers Ford

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Filmographies, Trailer
Year:	1988
Release Date:	June 14, 2004
Runtime:	92 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C 822 605 9
Label:	Artisan
Keywords:	Midnight, General, Crossing, Wide, Screen, Drama
Genre:	Drama