Black Widow (1987)

The black widow spider mates to kill--and so does the femme fatale of this noir thriller. Catharine (Theresa Russell) makes quite a glamorous living by marrying well and then carefully murdering her devoted husbands after ensuring that her name's on the will. No one suspects that the beautiful and affluent widow is actually a killer, as she hides her tracks well, using undetectable poisons. But her luck turns when federal agent Alexandra Barnes (Debra Winger) takes a closer look into the case and suspects she's found a serial killer. Soon Barnes books a flight to Hawaii, where Catharine's doing her mourning in th...
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e sun, and discovers that the widow has already gotten her claws into a highly successful hotel tycoon. However, Barnes quickly becomes obsessed with both her alluring subject and with the sophisticated businessman--a situation Catharine is sure to exploit. Like THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, director Bob Rafelson's BLACK WIDOW refers to an earlier noir film of the same name (directed by Nunnally Johnson in 1954), though similarities stop at the ruthless title character.
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Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of the species, that is. Debra Winger stars as a federal agent who has sworn to bring Theresa Russell to justice. Ms. Russell has married several millionaires who have all died mysterious deaths, for which she has remained undetected because she has assumed a number of different identities. Ms. Winger is the only person in her department who suspects that all of the deceased millionaires' widows are the same person. Finally tracking down Russell, Winger finds herself inexorably becoming frien...
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ds with the charming murderess.
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Black Widow vertelt het verhaal van Catherine. Zij trouwt met eenzame miljonairs en vermoordt ze zodat zij de erfenis kan opstrijken. Na elk moord verandert ze haar uiterlijk. Een uiterlijk dat het beste past bij haar volgende prooi. Er komt een kink in de kabel als iemand bij toeval een verband tussen de mysterieuze sterfgevallen ontdekt. Voor Alexandra begint een race tegen de klok. Zij moet bewijzen zien te vinden voor haar theorie, voordat de Black Widow daar een stokje voor kan steken.

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