Product Details

• Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Keith David, Kent Allen, Connie Nielsen, Mia Kirshner
• Directors: Gregory Marquette
• Writers: Gregory Marquette
• Producers: Derek Mazur, Gail Tilson, Marie Hoy, Matthew T. Weiner, Rainer Bienger
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: First Look Pictures
• VHS Release Date: April 16, 2002
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000633VH
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #66,263 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Love takes a sinister edge in this psycho-thriller. Huxley, a visiting musician travels cross-country to discover America's heartland and the "real" people of the Midwest. What he finds under the big blue skies, are two beautiful sisters who will change his life forever. Megan, a beautiful, sensual blonde easily captures his heart. But something strange lurks under the surface of her wholesome looking family. A string of murders scattered along their path leads Huxley into a nightmare of revenge and manipulation that he never could have imagined. A shocking movie about the sinister hold that beauty can have on a man in love.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying piece of modern noir, August 6, 2003

By	J. Houzet "wozamoya" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Innocents (DVD)

A fine looking pair of actresses, Connie Nielsen (Gladiator) and Mia Kirshner (Exotica), center the plot in this modern noir of two sisters who may or may not be serial killers.
A French music professor based in New York hits the road for some soul searching and ends up in a car crash in middle America that puts him in the hospital. As he recovers, his nurse (a luminous Connie Nielsen), becomes friendly with him and invites him to her home for a meal. There we discover her troubled background - a mentally unstable younger sister (Kirshner) and a father on his deathbed (cameo by Frank Langella).
The day after the professor plays his cello for the sickly man, he returns to find him dead. He watches the funeral from afar and continues his relationship with the mysterious sisters. They convince him to take them with him on a road trip that becomes filled with increasingly bizarre behavior by the sisters and encounters with other travelers with suspect motivations.
This was a worthy thriller with some good performances, especially Kirshner as the loopy younger sister who has to wear a wig because she tears her hair out. I sympathized with the character of the professor who is exposed to some terrifying situations and yet feels compelled to care for these two women. The actor was a good choice, even as a relative unknown.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Innocents, January 11, 2007

By	J. Lisik (Moose Jaw,SK, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Innocents (DVD)

Not sure why it was release 6 years after it was made. Very beautiful scenery, not bad acting and not bad story line. Overall a good movie.