Have never seen the film. It had a bit of a splash at the time, with Sharon Stone and that terrible UB40 cover of an Elvis track and the then hot Phil Noyce and Joe Eszterhas - but no one particularly liked it.
The script is very good. Simple, with three juicy star parts (Eszterhas often did that) plus sex, mystery and violence. Again it's about someone falling in love with someone who could be a killer, and is... but apparently in the film they changed it which ruined the point.
I actually think the key problem was the casting of Sharon Stone. Reading this, for the story to fly it really needed the lead to be played by someone who comes across as sexual inexperienced, shy... so when she calls for Zeke (the Billy Baldwin character) it's like wham, and she doesn't know how to deal with it. Like the Geena Davis-Brad Pitt relationship in Thelma and Louise. Sharon Stone always looks like she's been around the block.
The script totally makes logical sense. I'm surprised they had to reshoot it.
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