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Jade (1995) is an erotic thriller film written by Joe Eszterhas, produced by Robert Evans, directed by William Friedkin and starring David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Richard Crenna and Michael Biehn. The original music score was composed by James Horner. The film was marketed with the tagline "Some fantasies go too far."

An unrated version featuring additional scenes and more explicit sexual footage was later released to VHS, though it is now out of print; the theatrical cut was utilized for the DVD edition.

San Francisco assistant district attorney David Corelli faces a potential conflict of interest when he learns that the prime suspect in a particularly gruesome murder is psychologist Katrina Gavin, an old flame who eventually married his close friend, prominent criminal attorney Matt Gavin.

The trail takes Corelli to the office of the governor, who is caught in compromising positions in photographs found in the murder victim's safe. Corelli also obtains a copy of a sex tape taken in the dead man's beach house of an enigmatic prostitute known only as Jade. As he searches for the identity of this unknown woman, believing she holds the key to the murder's solution, Corelli uncovers further secrets that threaten his life.

Caruso career

This film and Kiss of Death, released the same year, worked in tandem to destroy David Caruso's movie career. Caruso, having just left NYPD Blue after a sensational single season as the series' leading man, was immediately cast as the lead in two important films but when they both failed at the box office, Caruso was out of work for two years before finally returning to television.

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Green with envy

***SPOILERS*** Overly plotted and totally confusing thriller that has
assistant D.A David Carelli, David Caruso, on the hunt for those who
brutally sliced up and murdered a serial blackmailer who got way over
his head in those he was blackmailing.Found cut to shreds in his mansion among his very expensive antiques,
mostly from the Orient, Kyle Medford, Ron Ulsatd, sleazy and secret
life as a master blackmailer hit the front pages of the local as well
as national newspapers. It's Corelli who takes a very personal interest
in Medford's murder only because his ex-girlfriend Trina Gavin, Linda
Fiorentino,was one of the last persons to see him alive. This doesn't
sit well with Trina's husband high powered defense attorney Matt Gavin,
Chazz Palminteri,who feels that Corelli is using Medford's murder in
making a play for his wife. Soon we find out it's Trina not Corelli
who's making all the plays which involves the late Kyle Medford's home
away from home on the Pacific Coast. It's there where Medford ran a
prostitution ring, right out of his beach front house, that he used to
attract very important people in the state to engage in. Getting the
goods on the unsuspecting John's Medford would film them in action and
use the photos and video tapes to blackmail them.The movies disjointed storyline has Corelli uncover a plot to blackmail
the states top executive Governor Gov. Lew Edwards, Richard Crenna, by
having him photographed in action with a hooker at Medford's beach
house. When Corelli finally tracks down the hooker who "The Gov" was
partying with-Patrice Jacinto played by Angie Evenhart-she clams up and
refuses to give him anything but her name and occupation. Slowly
putting the pieces together Corelli soon realizes that there was a lot
more going on then just simple blackmail! It's murder for both power
and profit on the highest order. And possibly Even higher then the
governor of the state of California himself! And it's Corelli, by
sticking his nose into the matter, who's next on the killer or killer's
hit list!The film "Jade" was so badly mishandled by its director William
Friedkin that its screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tried to get his name off
the movie's credits. As for the film's star David Caruso it ended his
promising, after the far more superior "Kiss of Death", movie career
and had him slip back into where he came from doing TV police shows.The movie did have an exciting car chase all over the streets docks and
at one point smashing through a Chinese Parade in the Chinatown Section
of San Francisco that reminded me of that legendary car cases that
Friedkin directed in "The French Connection". There was also a number
of X-rated scenes between Tria and Mr. Green, Robin Thomas, who was one
of the blackmail victims at the late Kyle Medford's retreat. It was in
these scenes, recovered from an almost destroyed video tape, that
showed Tria's real connection to Medford and it wasn't ,like she said,
a casual one. In fact Trina was hooking for Medford in getting him
people high up in government, and business, to be blackmailed by him.***SPOILERS*** In the end it was no surprise to anyone watching, except
Corelli and the SFPD, who in fact did old man Medford in since the
evidence was there before his body turned room temperature. But it took
a full confession by Medford's unsuspecting killer, that Corelli
illegally audio taped, for Corelli to finally crack the puzzling case.

sol1218 from brooklyn NY - 18 February 2009

Sprung Rites

I think this may have been successful in its day, simply because of the
sex. There is the appearance of some sex acts on the screen presented
in a couple voyeuristic contexts, but I think the target was a much
deeper appeal: a whole world driven by insatiable, conventionally
deviant female sex drive. The writer had previously cashed in with this
idea and Hollywood chose to try again but with a real director. This formula isn't just about sex, its about turning the noir mechanics
on its head. Noir depends on an outside fate that arbitrarily throws
strangers together in situations that are designed for and controlled
by the values of watching, outside the world of the action.Here, everyone knows each other beforehand. There are essentially no
strangers. The driving force is supernatural as in noir, but it is
rooted in and owned by the people we see. Its simple sexual desire,
lust.The story is ordinary, the sex unconvincingly simulated. Even the
automotive stunts are limp. There's some craft in how it is put
together visually though, enough to keep me engaged.But there is one remarkable feature. The score is hypnotizing. It is
bicameral, both halves based on prototypical themes. The male theme:
lustful, uncontrollable and apt to be violent is from (almost directly)
Stravinski's Rite of Spring. Its wildly erotic, threatening, dangerous.
The female side (until the end that is) is a Celtic anthem, soft,
passive, receptive, drifting.I do not ever recall something so directly cast, so borrowed and yet so
effective. I saw this close to a film (Duel at Diablo) where the score
was literally canned bits from old movies and the dialog all dubbed).
This part is fun, and much more tantalizingly erotic than what you will
see.Ted's Evaluation — 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

tedg (tedg@FilmsFolded.com) from Virginia Beach - 6 February 2009

Mostly poor and kind of skuzzy

I was disappointed, given the talent involved. We have a right to
expect better. In it, a cop (David Caruso) investigates the brutal,
ritualistic murder of an art dealer, and finds the murder weapon has
the fingerprints of his former lover (Linda Fiorentino), a beautiful
psychiatrist who is married to his friend, a powerful, corrupt lawyer.
It could have been good. Fiorentino gives as good a performance as is
possible under the circumstances, and the film is well-shot on
location, with haunting background music. But the story is wallows in
sordid behavior and it doesn't make a lot of sense. And the solution to
the murder is tacked on to the end, as if an afterthought, and it
doesn't make a great deal of sense, either. The audiences certainly
weren't impressed, and this film damaged the careers of everyone
involved. Indeed, it nearly deep-sixed David Caruso's career, as he
left "Hill Street Blues," at its peak of popularity to appear in this
film. Too bad!

highwaytourist from United States - 25 December 2007

All Appearances

Despite being directed by William Friedkin, who here reprises his knack
for car chases, and being a detective thriller full of very edgy scenes
of kinky sex, Jade is a dud at its core. It's packed with a lot of
interesting things, and it never sets off. It's not boring at all, yet
it just sits there, neutral to me.David Caruso doesn't stand out at all, but the absolutely stunningly
beautiful Linda Fiorentino, who gave the performance of a lifetime in
The Last Seduction, gives a different but still very secretive and
naturally elusive character. I like her character because she's seen
objectively by the writer, the way her type of personality is always
seen. Rarely does anyone truly come to know someone like her.
Fiorentino very deeply projects her very inward character. Chazz
Palminteri matches her as a very extroverted fireball of cockiness.
This is all well and good, but they are carrying a movie smaller than
them.One of Friedkin's car chases is a panicky ride down the hill of a San
Francisco street in a car with a severed brake line. This falls short
of any action sequence Friedkin has ever done in the twenty years he'd
been working before this film. It's filmed wrong. It's not exciting the
way it should be. The second car chase of the film, wherein Caruso is
desperately tailing a mysterious and murderous black car, is a very
stressful little set piece, and keeps the audience's attention better
than it was before.You see, I think where the problem lies is in the writing. Joe
Eszterhas's Jade is a mystery about a brutal murder, blackmail of a
threatening senator, a circle of long-time friendship between the cop,
a lawyer, and the lawyer's wife, a Japanese symbol, and how everyone
has more to hide. Where does everything really tie in? Yes, the story
leaves no real loose ends, but why doesn't it feel like it's come
together tightly? Jade has no true focus on any of the themes just
listed.

jzappa from United States - 18 June 2007

"Basic Instinct" replay; almost a guilty pleasure

Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco investigates when a shady
art dealer is murdered. Director William Friedkin is on auto-pilot with
this silly retread of "Basic Instinct", however the dynamics of the
plot tend to draw you in against your better judgment. The car stunts
are fabulous, most of the actors are sultry eye-candy, elfin-faced
David Caruso is admirably commanding, but the plot doesn't bear close
scrutiny. Friedkin's porny scenes (which played havoc with the film's
rating) walk that cinematic line between being necessary and just being
exploitive (see "Lipstick"…and just about every movie written by this
film's screenwriter, Joe Eszterhaus). "Jade" isn't despicable, but it
leaves the viewer in the uncomfortable position of shameful voyeur, and
while this may be titillating to some, it doesn't sit well in
retrospect. ** from ****

moonspinner55 from redlands, ca - 10 June 2007

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