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I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I was in the mood to watch an exciting who-done-it, so I picked this old Goldie Hawn flick, 'Deceived'. I was deceived, all right! It started off promising, then veered into the land of absurdity. The villain can be spotted almost immediately, so it is no longer 'who' done it, but why'd he do it.It always amuses me how the heroine puts herself in harm's way. If you are a lone female and come to an apartment with an open door, contents strewn everywhere, would you continue searching the rooms? I think not. Goldie's character does it multiple times. I understand that these movies are fiction and there has to be danger involved for the main character, but it still is not at all believable.I won't delve into the plot and give anything away, but I will quote two lines at the film's conclusion between the main character and the 'bad guy' to show the caliber of the story.'Are you going to kill me too?''I am going to kiss you. Then I will kill you, because that's love, too.''Nuff said. Five stars because the movie DID keep my interest and I watched it to the bitter end, but I wish it had been a nine or ten star effort

The 1991 thriller 'Deceived", led by Academy award winner Goldie Hawn is defiantly an experiment for her.(From comedy's to a more dramatic role.) It starts fairly normal, and then just turns absurd and crazy in the final act, with some mixed results overall.It starts rather promisingly with a woman named Adrienne Saunders(Goldie Hawn), who enters a seemingly happy marriage & has a kid with a guy named Jack Saunders(John Heard). But, after he parishes in a car accident, she slowly starts to unravel secrets about him & twists abound!This film is directed by Damian Harris(who didn't go on to do much of anything) and written by Bruce Joel Rubin("Ghost"), and Mary Agnes Donoghue("Beaches", "Paradise", Veronica Guerin" and "white Oleander" etc). It is competently shot by Harris, & there are some well executed scenes, especially in the first half of the film.Goldie Hawn is fine, but not mind blowing as the straight person trying to unravel the web of lies surrounding her love. She seems a tad nervous on occasions, but it's great to see her flex her dramatic muscles here. John Herd is also pretty good. The problem is the final act...It is very absurd, and very cliched thriller material. But, the film never stops being entertaining. I would only recommend to die hard thriller or Hawn fans, other than that it's rather skippable. 5/10

John Heard is the supposedly deceased husband of Goldie Hawn. Of course things are not as they seem, and the confusing plot is riddled with loopholes and a profound lack of logic. There are way too many coincidences that appear out of nowhere. With all the effort Hawn puts into learning Heard's true identity, you would think she would wise up and run to the police. Even as bodies pile up, the detective work is inexplicably left up to Goldie. "Deceived" is not a bad movie, but it really isn't something I would recommend, unless you are a big fan of either John Heard or Goldie Hawn. They both do their best with a script that stretches believability beyond reason. - MERK

It isn't so bothersome that Goldie Hawn's husband is double-crossing her. It's that he's triple-crossing her.Hawn and Heard are evidently a happily married couple with two kids. But after all these years, some evidence comes to light that Heard may be lying to her about his activities. Someone claims to have seen Heard in the Chesterfield Hotel in New York, their home city, when in fact Heard was supposed to be attending a business meeting in Boston. A few other hints support the contention that he was lying.But why? Hawn wonders if he's been having an affair. What wife wouldn't? She snoops through Heard's drawers and the pockets of his older suits, as wives will, and digs up more suspicious evidence.She begins to back Heard into a corner. He's indignant, unbelieving, but something definitely seems wrong. Then he appears to be atomized in a car accident that ends in one of those fiery explosions that all car accidents end with. Is Heard really dead? I leave the answer to you, the experienced viewer, the informed consumer of these unimaginative mysteries with a threatened woman in the center of it. I myself am one of those consumers and I knew immediately that Heard hadn't died. I was right, as usual.I kind of enjoyed Heard's sliminess. That charming smile, that oleaginous demeanor. Smooth and comfortable -- even when Hawn discovers that he's not only assumed a dead man's identity, deserted his parents, kidnapped his own child, and committed bigamy -- he's the kind of guy who once had an awkward moment just to see what it felt like.But this is merely a variation on a familiar theme -- the woman betrayed. Usually the husband is the betrayer, sometimes an old boyfriend. The villain ordinarily beats up the wife, is unfaithful to her, stalks her, makes threatening phone calls and so forth, and the wife has difficulty convincing anyone else that the danger is anywhere but in her own mind.Given that this is a pretty base formula, I still got a kick out of watching her unravel this complicated mystery of her husband's identity. I prefer them a little more thoughtful, something like "The Day Of The Jackal." Well, that's not about the identity of a husband but of an international assassin, but it's more plausible. When you come right down to it, it's hard to believe that a woman could live for so many years with a fraud and then have the mix-up revealed in a few days.