Consenting Adults

    Consenting Adults
    1992

    Synopsis

    Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis.

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      Cast

      • Kevin KlineRichard Parker
      • Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioPriscilla Parker
      • Kevin SpaceyEddy Otis
      • Rebecca MillerKay Otis
      • Forest WhitakerDavid Duttonville
      • E.G. MarshallGeorge Gordon
      • Kimberly McCulloughLori Parker
      • Billie NealAnnie Duttonville
      • Benjamin HendricksonJimmy Schwartz
      • Lonnie R. Smith Jr.Dr. Pettering

      Recommendations

      • 80

        Washington Post

        You don't leave the theater feeling swindled and you don't leave wishing you'd seen a home run. In this case, a triple is just fine.
      • 70

        The New York Times

        Still, watching the plot unfold remains fun, if only for its "Can you top this?" brand of craziness.
      • 67

        Austin Chronicle

        Kline and Spacey are excellent here, playing off of each other like a couple of professional combatants; it's by far the most interesting thriller in the last six months.
      • 50

        Variety

        Consenting Adults initially seems a little brainier than its brethren but soon gives way to the same cavernous lapses in logic and formula ending, though the cast and clear appeal of the genre could insure a strong opening and modest long-term box office life.
      • 40

        TV Guide Magazine

        CONSENTING ADULTS shows that the urban thriller genre spawned by FATAL ATTRACTION has run out of gas. Viewers who have seen such films as THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE and UNLAWFUL ENTRY are unlikely to enjoy this derivative effort; it's the same paranoid mayhem--and not as much fun.
      • 40

        Washington Post

        The second half of the film -- that is, everything after the dubious wife-swapping -- is as mindless and sloppy as the first half is sharp.
      • 40

        Orlando Sentinel

        What's unusual about Consenting Adults (which opens today) is that virtually everything is implausible. In fact, my bull detector hasn't beeped so much since the last time I went shopping for a new car. If I were to list everything that happens in the film that strains credulity, I'd be here until Woody and Mia get back together. Plus I'd make some of you angry by revealing too many secrets. [16 Oct 1992, p.19]
      • 30

        Time Out

        Twenty years after the taut Klute, Pakula's touch has deserted him; the glossy, literalist approach he favours here works firmly against the arrant contrivances in Matthew Chapman's screenplay, rendering already convoluted events even more ridiculous.