Monday, January 22, 2024

Tempted (2001)



Released January 1st in the US.
Filmed entirely in Louisiana.
The story: Charlie LeBlanc is a rich businessman with a young, attractive wife named Lily.
But recently Charlie learned he doesn't have much more time to live.
Just when he is ready to make out his will, leaving everything he owns to Lily, he has a thought...
Is Lily the woman she claims to be? Does she really love Charlie like she says she does and does she deserve all his money?
Charlie befriends handsome, much younger than himself Jimmy, who happens to be working on becoming a court-appointed attorney.
Knowing Jimmy could use the money, Charlie offers him 40 thousand dollars to make a move on his wife.
Jimmy refuses at first but after meeting Lily, decides to try.
Lily then refuses Jimmy's come ons , but when she finds out that Charlie planned it all because he isn't sure he can trust her, she accepts Jimmy's advances.
But Charlie has one more trick up his sleeve that neither Jimmy nor Lily knows a thing about.
Stars Burt Reynolds, Saffron Burrows, Mike Starr, Randy Austin, Kyle Erby, Peter Facinelli, Carol Sutton, Eric Mabius, George DiCenzo, David Jensen, Lisha Brock, RL Burnside, Kenny Brown
Directed by (& story written) Bill Bennett
Rated R
MYSTERY/THRILLER

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