Alicia, a promising young PR executive, goes home with a handsome stranger, only for the pair to be attacked by a woman with a knife. Alicia kills the woman in self-defense, but then finds herself framed for murder. Unraveling the mystery, Alicia finds herself plunged into a web of deceit from which there seems to be no escape.
Costume
Power suits so aggressively 90s they deserve their own credit
Acting
Berkley commits to every ridiculous twist like it's Shakespeare
Writing
Dialogue that thinks it's cleverer than any human would speak
Director
Douglas Jackson
Elizabeth Berkley
Alicia 'Allie' Brayman
J. H. Wyman
Kyle Jones (as Joel Wyner)
Frank Schorpion
Det. Ed Royko
Barry Flatman
Blake Preston
Ellen David
Sharon
Mark Walker
Avery Shaw
Susan Glover
Judy Grant
Frank Fontaine
Frank Brayman
Maxine Guess
Jane Rawlings
Mark Camacho
Mark Brewster
Alan Fawcett
Jack Barton
Stephanie Bauder
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of five films Elizabeth Berkley made in 1998 alone, a desperate sprint to rehabilitate her image after Showgirls tanked her career.
Random Encounter is essentially a gender-swapped, Canadian-funded attempt to cash in on the erotic thriller boom that Basic Instinct started and the MPAA's ratings crackdown was already killing.
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