Product Details

• Actors: Alec Baldwin, Powers Boothe, Louise Lombard, Philip Jackson, Kurtis O'Brien
• Directors: Ben Bolt
• Writers: E. Max Frye
• Producers: Alec Baldwin, Ann Johnson, Antony Root, Craig McNeil, Jonathan Cornick
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000CDL3Z
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #59,119 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Paul Kane (Alec Baldwin) awakes from a coma with spotty memories of his past, including the airplane accident that killed his wife and two daughters, and nearly killed him. With the help of a psychiatrist (Lombard), Kane attempts to reconstruct his memories and return to some semblance of his life. Soon, Kane is able to remember his career as an American government agent based in London, working under Kelton Reed (Powers Boothe). But after recovering from his physical injuries and returning to work, Kane discovers that he can no longer carry out his duties and begins to make alarming discoveries that lead him to unlock memories of his shocking past and to question everything - including the motives of everyone around him and his own identity.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars SUSPEND DISBELIEF, THEN PERHAPS TOLERATE, March 31, 2004

By	Shashank Tripathi (Gadabout) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Good production values, a superb soundtrack and some good suspense shots can all still not make up for a doozy plot. If you don't mind not having to question its theme, the movie is interesting and will keep you guessing. But there are holes big as Gouda in the plot -- stuff like assassins leaving guns with fingerprints behind, people remembering things in a country they've never been in before, people being doctored...oh well, rent it and enjoy some neighborhood-garage type film making. The DVD tells me this was made for TV, so perhaps such a puerile level of oversight is forgiveable, but one wonders how much Baldwin's knees must have heart bending to these lows.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars MISTY WATER COLORED MEMORIES, May 6, 2005

By	Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

SECOND NATURE examines the intrinsic nature of the human psyche: can a cold blooded killer be reformed and change his killing ways? Alec Baldwin turns in a rather stiff performance as a man who wakes up from a coma after a plane crash that killed his wife and two daughters. He is in England, in the care of lovely psychiatrist Louise Lombard. As pieces of his memories come back, Baldwin starts to wonder just who he was and who he is, and what is his connection with shady Powers Boothe (a rather dull and wooden performance here too). By the time it reaches its revelations at the end, there are so many inconsistencies and implausibilities, SECOND NATURE just can't repair the damage done. A mediocre film at best.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A decent TV movie, August 29, 2006

By	BernardZ (Melbourne, vic Australia) - See all my reviews

I have seen a very similar story on Babylon V and I think its a non SF copy. The story itself is of a prisioner who is rehabilitated using a mind control method. However others have a different agenda and attempt to turn him into an assassin. It had enough twists and turns to make it interesting.

The acting was fair. Certainly Alec Baldwin can do much better.

Overall it was quite viewable. Probably worth a look.