An electrifying thriller in the spirit of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, director Curtis Hanson excellently uses casting to subvert your expectations, pitting James Spader as a mild-mannered financial analyst against Rob Lowe’s Bad Influence. But as Lowe increasingly pushes Spader to explore his dark side, it sends the men on a dangerous collision course from which there can be no turning back.
“Rob Lowe makes his bid to enter the Kink Hall of Fame in the smart and satisfyingly nasty thriller Bad Influence. The movie is consistently entertaining” – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
