Underrated

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Extremely underrated film, I learned from an interview that after the movie was filmed, the film The Hand That Rocks The Cradle was also completed the studio predicted instant balefire blockbuster success, and the people behind The Temp opted to change key events in the film in the hope that the film could successfully compete with The Hand That Rocks The Cradle.

Unfortunately, this did not happen, The Temp was not well received.

However, I thought the film was brilliantly ambiguous, even thought it was not the premise that Tom Holland originally wanted, and even though certain scenes were clearly interpolated (scenes later filmed and added) and incompatible with the original plot structure and original characterizations.

Timothy Hutton's portrayal throughout the entire film, including the added scenes which he brilliantly mastered to the point that it was clear he essentially refused to allow the new characterizaion and plotline to alter his original portrayal, was not only flawless, but off-the-charts, in the realm of Ben Kingsley and David Thewlis (Naked) and James Dean and Daniel Day-Lewis and Marlon Brando and Derek Jacobi, a realm which should have been impossible for him to reach considering that The Temp's original premise and linear characterizaion was fathomlessly inferiour to films like Gandhi, House Of Sand And Fog, Naked, East Of Eden, In The Name Of The Father, On The Waterfront, etc, etc.

Unlike most people who despised the denouement, I thought it was beyond ingenious because she is not stereotypically killed, the director treated all of Kris' actions ambiguously, the sum total of her explanations were logical and could be valid, Peter could have been completely deluded, and we never learn whether or not the police believe the evidence Peter perceives exposes her motivations and guilt.

Bravo, Tom Holland and Timothy Hutton.