Natural Enemy

1996 "Some people are just born enemies"
5.2| 1h28m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 31 December 1996 Released
Producted By: Phoenician Films
Country: United States of America
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A businessman (Donald Sutherland) has a hotshot young new partner (William McNamara). What he doesn't realize is that his new partner is the son of his second wife, adopted into an abusive family at birth and now a raving psychopath out to murder his natural mother for whom he blames the miseries of his lifetime.

Genre

Drama, Horror, Crime

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Director

Douglas Jackson

Production Companies

Phoenician Films

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Natural Enemy Audience Reviews

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
GazerRise Fantastic!
Bereamic Awesome Movie
nzpedals A text message at the very end, after the credits, tells us that adopted children get psychiatric problems a lot more than others.I wish I had seen that before the starting to watch - the early scenes show some really awful stuff. When she was 17, Sandy (Leslie Ann Warren) gave birth to Jeremy (William McNamara) but gave him up for adoption. The very first scene shows him setting fire to one of his adoptive parents! Much later, he says he has spent his whole life trying to understand why he wasn't good enough to keep. Inspite of the awfulness throughout the movie, it does raise all sorts of issues and deals with them well. It does help to have faultless acting from the whole cast, and excellent production and direction and appropriate locations - mainly a stunning house somewhere in Montreal (although the story says Boston and Dover.)I found it so hard to give a rating. Awfulness usually gets a 1 from me, but a second watching after reading the end message, requires a big rethink, so now it's a 9.
smatysia I won't mention any of the plot, because, although it would be highly predictable anyway, the one notable plot twist is given away everywhere, in the movie comments, in the plot summary here, and even in the synopsis on my Netflix envelope. I might have enjoyed it more if I hadn't known that. Maybe. This film has a deceptively good cast, most of whom did creditable acting with the rather limited material at hand, including Donald Sutherland, Lesley Ann Warren, and Tia Carrere and Rosemary Dunsmore in smaller parts. It was impossible to like William McNamara, but that was clearly by design. And there were a couple of quick nude scenes by the callipygian Lenore Zann. But none of this brings the slightest recommendation from me. Don't any of these fine actors actually read these scripts before signing on?
vidalia15 Natural Enemy is not unlike a plethora of similar revenge type of movies involving a character with considerable "damaged goods" out to destroy those he feels is responsible for his twisted state.Here, William McNamara is the son of adopted parents who abused him and apparently ruined his life. To retaliate, McNamara has tracked down his natural parents and slowly begins to ruin their lives.While the story is uninspired, it does move at a fairly fast pace. While McNamara does not possess the emotional range of many other actors in his age group, he is fairly convincing here and does send a few chills our way.Perhaps the most disappointing element of the film is that, in its own way, it tries to shed light on the fact that many adopted children often grow up to be emotionally scarred for life, if not worse, (McNamara's character being an extreme example.) Although this is a noble undertaking, we can't respect the movie enough to care about this aspect of it. In addition, the movie falls way too short of taking itself seriously enough to double as a legitimate "message picture" in this regard.Ultimately, we are left with not a whole lot to think about.
nytebyte This is one of the most hateful and cruel movies I've seen in a long time. Sadly I was duped into sticking with it, since Donald Sutherland's presence misleadingly gave it some credibility. [That's the last time that'll happen.]Lesley Ann Warren's character was annoyingly whiny and as stupid as they come. There were smarter characters than hers who were killed in the film. Thats just one of many things in this movie that made me ask, "Where is the justice?"Why is late-night cable so filled with sadistic garbage filled with pathological mayhem? Most of these films seem to have a particular problem with women, and seem to focus on them being terrorized and murdered. This film could have been every bit as suspenseful without being sick and twisted in the process. All it ends up doing is turning the viewer's stomach with its sickness, and insulting the viewer's intelligence.The cast is misleadingly good. My guess is that they BAGGED Sutherland first, and used him to lure the others like lemmings into this.I'm kicking myself for wasting time, giving this piece of garbage a chance.