Alice (Heather Graham) is a follower. She has no real personality of her own and is terrified of risk, existing but not living. Then she meets Adam (Joseph Fiennes), a hot mountaineer whose hobbies involve book signing, rescuing climbers, and BDSM. Alice immediately throws over her milquetoast boyfriend (Jason Hughes) to move in to Adam's place and a whirlwind marriage. Then she starts receiving unsigned warnings about Adam's nefarious past, alleging violence, rape, and murder.
Erotic thrillers are a hard line to walk. The danger has to be risqué and sexy without looking like it's condoning sexual violence. People always want to shortcut that to BDSM and it's lazy, not to mention inaccurate. There is a world of difference between consensual dominance and abusive control.
This film doesn't do a good job with the thriller portion and I'm not sold that it's erotic, either. Sure, Graham and Fiennes are hot and if that's all it takes for you, great. I'm not here to shame. It just didn't do anything for me. It's streaming on Roku but even for free, it's not worth it.
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