Mercy

About Mercy

Mercy is a 2000 erotic thriller film directed by Damian Harris and starring Ellen Barkin. The movie was based on a novel written by David L. Lindsey.

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Mercy is a 2000 erotic thriller film directed by Damian Harris and starring Ellen Barkin. The movie was based on a novel written by David L. Lindsey.

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Plot

Detective Cathy Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie (Peta Wilson), who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and S&M. Matters become even more complicated when Palmer finds herself attracted to Kittrie, leading to a brief lesbian encounter. Palmer soon learns that each victim belonged to this club of prominent, sexually experimental women. In order to catch the killer, Catherine must trust Vickie to guide her through the dangerous and illicit underground.

Cast

Ellen Barkin as Detective Cathy Palmer

Wendy Crewson as Bernadine Mello

Peta Wilson as Vickie Kittrie

Karen Young as Mary

Danielle Marie Straus as Young Mary

Julian Sands as Dr. Dominick Broussard

Stephen Baldwin as The Mechanic

Beau Starr as Lieutenant Fritch

Marshall Bell as Gil Reynolds

Bill MacDonald as Detective John Beck

Stewart Bick as Detective Cushing

Ellen-Ray Hennessy as Murial Farr

Lara Daans as Dorothy Samenov

Claire Burton as Sandra Moser

Fulvio Cecere as Detective Leeland

Michael Fletcher as Wendell

Zehra Leverman as Terry Ross

Linda V. Carter as Helena

Melanie Nicholls-King as Jane

Kevin Rushton as Clyde Barbish

Dorothy Bennie as Miss Dawes

Doug Lennox as Mr. Kittrie

Jacqueline McLeod as Mrs. Kittrie

Lacey Von Erich as Vicki's Sister

Production

Exterior locations include the Filmores Hotel at 212 Dundas Street East at George Street in the Garden District of Toronto.

Reception

The film received poor reviews from critics. The film has an approval rating of 17% on Rotten Tomatoes from six critic reviews.

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Notable quotes

“Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”
— Anonymous, in First Epistle of Peter 2:9 - 10 (traditionally attributed to Saint Peter); this is one of the passages through which Quakers indicate divine sanction of the universal priesthood of all believers.
“Mercy gestures — and the gesture speaks: Help yourself.”
— J. M. DeMatteis, Mercy (1993)
“It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truths announced in the Holy Scriptures, and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
— Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation for a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer (30 March 1863)
“In this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on our part, we be often dead as to man’s doom in earth; but in the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be.”
— Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393), Ch. 50
“I’m trying to decide whether we can afford to be merciful. The Arbai were merciful, but when confronted with evil, mercy becomes an evil.”
— Sheri S. Tepper, Grass (1989), Chapter 16
“God loves our mercy to one another; but not upon conditions at variance with sanctity to Him.”
— James Martineau, p. 409

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