Never Talk to Strangers

Never Talk to Strangers
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Hall
Produced by	Andras Hamori Jeffrey R. Neuman Martin J. Wiley Rebecca De Mornay Robert Lantos Barbet Schroeder
Written by	Lewis Green Jordan Rush
Starring	Rebecca De Mornay Antonio Banderas Dennis Miller
Music by	Pino Donaggio Steve Sexton
Cinematography	Elemér Ragályi
Editing by	Roberto Silvi
Studio	Alliance Atlantis
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release date(s)	October 20, 1995 (1995-10-20)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States Canada Germany
Language	English
Budget	$6.4 million
Box office	$6,858,261

Never Talk to Strangers is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Peter Hall and starring Antonio Banderas and Rebecca De Mornay.

Plot

Psychologist Dr. Sarah Taylor (Rebecca De Mornay) is a guarded, aloof criminal psychologist who interviews a client who is a rapist, and is pleading NGRI. It is later revealed that she was the subject of daily rapes as a child by her estranged father who is shown to be very ill. Sarah meets Tony Ramirez (Antonio Banderas) in a shopping mall, and she gives him her number, thus a relationship begins despite the advances of one of her neighbors. Days into the relationship Sarah begins to get death threats and strange gifts, such as dead flowers. As she gets more romantic with Tony, the gifts get more extreme. Her lifelong cat is killed, at which point Sarah goes to the police. Sarah then hires a detective and has Tony followed, only to find out something she least expected from her passionate lover.

Cast

• Rebecca De Mornay as Dr. Sarah Taylor
• Antonio Banderas as Tony Ramirez
• Dennis Miller as Cliff Raddison
• Len Cariou as Henry Taylor
• Harry Dean Stanton as Max Cheski
• Eugene Lipinski as Dudakoff
• Martha Burns as Maura
• Beau Starr as Grogan
• Phillip Jarrett as Spatz
• Tim Kelleher as Wabash

Reception

Never Talk to Strangers received negative reviews, holding only 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Soundtrack

The film features "Love Sick" performed by Alfonzo Blackwell.

External links

• Never Talk to Strangers at the Internet Movie Database
• Never Talk to Strangers at AllRovi
• Never Talk to Strangers at Box Office Mojo
• Never Talk to Strangers at Rotten Tomatoes
• Pavilion Library review