Consenting Adults

In the 1970s, Alan J. Pakula was a highly esteemed director of intelligent thrillers, many of which had captured the paranoid spirit of the times. In the 1990s, Pakula's thrillers ceased to appear that intelligent, and they usually had very little to do with the spirit of the times. One example of this could be found in Pakula's 1992 film *Consenting Adults*. The premise behind Matthew Chapman's script is intriguing…