Mercy (2000 film)

Mercy is a 2000 erotic thriller film directed by Damian Harris and starring Ellen Barkin. The movie was based on a novel written by David L. Lindsey.

Plot

Detective Cathy Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie (Peta Wilson), who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and S&M. Matters become even more complicated when Palmer finds herself attracted to Kittrie, leading to a brief lesbian encounter. Palmer soon learns that each victim belonged to this club of prominent, sexually experimental women. In order to catch the killer, Catherine must trust Vickie to guide her through the dangerous and illicit underground. One of the strange things that happens in this movie is when Mary (Karen Young, from “Jaws the Revenge” and “The Sopranos”) ties down her doctor (Julian Sands) after he dresses up like her mother. He tells her to act out her aggression by pretending he’s her mother. She bites his nearly nude body in several places and takes out a knife.

Cast

Ellen Barkin as Detective Cathy Palmer

Wendy Crewson as Bernadine Mello

Peta Wilson as Vickie Kittrie

Karen Young as Mary

Danielle Marie Straus as Young Mary

Julian Sands as Dr. Dominick Broussard

Stephen Baldwin as The Mechanic

Beau Starr as Lieutenant Fritch

Marshall Bell as Gil Reynolds

Bill MacDonald as Detective John Beck

Stewart Bick as Detective Cushing

Ellen-Ray Hennessy as Murial Farr

Lara Daans as Dorothy Samenov

Claire Burton as Sandra Moser

Fulvio Cecere as Detective Leeland

Michael Fletcher as Wendell

Zehra Leverman as Terry Ross

Linda V. Carter as Helena

Melanie Nicholls-King as Jane

Kevin Rushton as Clyde Barbish

Dorothy Bennie as Miss Dawes

Doug Lennox as Mr. Kittrie

Jacqueline McLeod as Mrs. Kittrie

Lacey Von Erich as Vicki’s Sister

References

Mercy at IMDb

Mercy (2000) at Yahoo! Movies

Mercy (2000) at The New York Times website

External links

Mercy at IMDb

Mercy at Rotten Tomatoes