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Lesbian Movie Review: The Monkey’s Mask / Crime, Suspense, Thriller (2000)
By Kaylee Larson, LesbianLoveNow.com
The Monkey’s Mask is an intense thriller that skillfully combines murder, mystery, emotion, and sex. Backed by a solid cast of performers, including Susie Porter (Star Wars: Episode II), Kelly McGillis (Top Gun), and Abbie Cornish (Stop Loss), this movie delivers top-notch acting from one heart-pounding scene to the next. The Monkey’s Mask will draw you in to identify with the characters and their troubles and keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
The Monkey’s Mask centers on Jill Fitzpatrick (Porter), a private investigator who is hired by the parents of a girl who has gone missing, Mickey (Cornish). After taking on the job of finding the missing young lady, Jill travels to Mickey’s university in order to get acquainted with her poetry professor, Diana (McGillis), and to find out everything she can about the missing girl.
Jill’s initial headstrong desire to jump into the case with determination and to find Mickey soon dissolves as she finds herself in the middle of an intense affair with Diana, a married bisexual woman. At first, the two seem to make the perfect investigative team, but when Mickey is discovered dead, a victim of strangling, investigators begin pointing fingers and raising questions.
Dismissing the logical option of removing herself from the missing person’s case because of her intense love affair with Diana, Jill instead becomes more involved with both the case and Diana than she ever could have imagined.
Through a series of events, Jill discovers Mickey’s attraction to the darker side of poetic arts. Jill eventually discovers that Mickey’s intrigue with poetry has originated from the connection she had with Diana. The movie then begins to take on a surprising and dangerous new twist, as Jill finds herself investigating Diana, the woman that she has fallen for so deeply.
This movie’s pivotal twist is one of the many elements that makes The Monkey’s Mask a winner. The film breaks barriers as it forges a delicious take on lesbian romance with torrid love and sex scenes, eroticism, and sexually charged poetry in this plot laced with lies, deception, and intrigue.
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