Danielle Carin in The Contract (1999)

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Do you remember, "Wink, I can name that song in four notes."

Well, "Readers, I can review this movie in two words."

Jeff Fahey.

Camilla Overbye Roos continues to gain a stronger foothold in the b world, and Titanic now seems light years away. This time she is the victim of a really bad day in which she was angry at everyone, got drunk, and vented her anger to a stranger in a bar. Oh, she was mad at her boss, her friend, the clerk at Safeway, just about everyone. On a nearby cocktail napkin, the mysterious stranger wrote down all the people she was pissed off at. Then he asked her to sign it. She could not see his face clearly.

Within several hours, all those people started kicking the bucket. Oops. The killer considered her cocktail napkin to be a license to kill. Interestingly, this is the same way James Bond started. Some lady in a bar was pissed off at Blofeld and Goldfinger, and you know the rest.

Both incidents are based upon an actual point of international law, which makes cocktail napkins acceptable binding contracts in the World Court, where they even supersede the evidentiary value of a deathbed confession. Plain napkins are binding contracts, but napkins with graphics and cutesy bar names like "Hanker's Aweigh" also provide the possessor with full binding legal authority for otherwise illegal acts.

There was a surprise ending. The killer here would have gotten off scot-free, but he accidentally used a plain napkin instead of the ones imprinted by the bar.

Oops.

Nudity Report: Camilla Overbye Roos was naked in the shower (seen through the glass), then she was naked in a very spirited and reasonably explicit sex scene. There are no pubes on display, but the rest of the goodies can be seen from time to time.

Critics Vote: No major online reviews

IMDB Summary: 5.5 out of 10

Box Office: NA

DVD Info: no widescreen, no features, not even a menu!

Written by: Scoopy …Scoopy.net