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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
