For a while we're on an illusion-and-reality merry-go-round, with cheap-trick dream scenes and imaginary evil twins and oh-by-the-way flashbacks. Once we're let off the merry-go-round the degree of reality doesn't increase. Director Brian De Palma has always been lax about improbabilities, and here writing his own script he is able to bar all probability whatsoever. De Palma's idol, Alfred Hitchcock, is spasmodically in evidence (Psycho reference, Frenzy reference -- though the Master would never have condoned all that slow-motion!), and John Lithgow is incited to an over-the-top portrayal of a multiple personality (child psychologist, seven-year-old tyke, sunglassed hoodlum) plus the Norwegian father of the multiple personality plus one of the personalities dolled up in drag. With Lolita Davidovich and Steven Bauer. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd