As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
One of my most favorite made for television movies was one from 1985 called Brotherly Love, starring Judd Hirsch.
To put this into context, this novel made for television was before all the thrillers and multiple identities which everyone is now schooled in When this movie appeared it was cutting edge, and it was the story of two twin brothers in one good and the other evil, and the evil one was setting up the good brother in a complex frame which kept descending into a worst to worst scenario.
I do not want to give away the plot, but will state this is Judd Hirsch's best role. He was fantastic in both roles of good and evil brother. He was evil incarnate before Oprah television taught everyone the depths which the psychopath could go.
Karen Carlson stars as his wife, and does a good job as she always did in her television mode roles which she was the thoughtful babe of that era. She never really made the leap the way Anne Archer did, who was the same genre of actress.
If you can get this movie cheap, which is not the case as it seems the movies I like all go in the 12 to 25 dollar range, this is a very good thriller which holds up even today. It is one of the obscure creations which only appeared once on CBS and just sort of was filed away in no one ever giving it rave reviews.
What I like most about this movie is it is creepy and macabre like Hitchcock's films were, without all of the violence and gore. It simply was enough the character was terrifying. It is much better than the brooding Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear, which I always thought lacked the terror Brotherly Love produced much later and on a lower budget.
People never consider Judd Hirsch to be a good actor, but he is. He did too much comedy and was lost in that Taxi series, but he shines in acting roles and it is a shame that he never was able to continue on in various genre to show the world he was every bit the actor that Joaquin Phoenix is in being the greatest actor ever.
I apologize for the lack of links but my gigs are gone and it takes forever to look things up. This laptop the hinge broke on it and my back up was a real trail today in nothing loaded on slow internet, and with it hovering around zero, deep snow and other chit, it is going to be sometime before I have the opportunity to try and get things back to where they should be.
This of course has to be short as I can not write about the plot or other things to give away the drama. It is just a unknown gem of a movie which few people have ever watched and it makes for good Hitchcock entertainment.
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