Video Review

Woman with a Past (1994)

Reviewed by Glenn Kenny | May 27, 1994
EW's GRADE
B-

Details Movie Rated: R; Genres: Drama, Mystery and Thriller; With: Dwight Schultz and Pamela Reed

Basically a grittier version of a '30s melodrama in which the good girl gone bad (she did it for the kids, of course) makes a new life for herself while hiding the old one from her current husband. Trailer-park trash replaces seedy gangsters, au courant themes of abuse are played up, but everything else remains basically the same. Still, Pamela Reed is compelling throughout Woman with a Past, always breaking through the surface cliches of the scenario and getting to the real human truths. B-

Originally posted May 27, 1994 Published in issue #224 May 27, 1994 Order article reprints

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