I Can Make You Love Me (1993)

Please don't spend money on this.

Must See Movie...

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Oh my... there's nothing freakier seeing the man who played the adult Bill from the 1990's film IT taking on the role of a pervy computer engineer! Laura Black is a beautiful, self-confident graduate heading to Silicon Valley (although the scenery in the background looks more Eastern United States than Western), to be a successful computer engineer. She immediately befriends her co-workers and landlord, and meets an awkwardly nice guy, Rich, who she at first really likes. When Laura makes it clear that they're going to remain just friends, Rich quickly changes for the creepy, and next thing you know he's shooting up the corporate office buildings and murdering Laura's colleagues one by one! The soundtrack brought to mind movies and TV such as The Tower (1993), The Secret World of Alex Mack (1995-1998) and The Brave Little Toaster (1987). The whole film was like a homage to 90's corporate culture. One could even consider it a slasher film with Rich's body count and creepiness; the actor pulled off the role extremely well. Laura's character was played well, as was the landlord's. Stalking Laura had a few sad moments, such as the poor guy who gets shot and hides in the bathroom, only to start bleeding to death and get shot to death when Rich discovers his hiding place. I wouldn't recommend it to kids, but for adults it's highly entertaining. It even has its comedic moments.I can see myself viewing this film again, for a Lifetime TV movie it was surprisingly amazing and freaky.

Based on a real-life case from the 1980s, this is a pretty well-made TV movie about a disturbed guy stalking a female co-employee, leading up to a murder spree. The first half of the movie chronicles the stalking and the second half the violent hold-up at the work place. In the first half, the attitude of the office superiors in appeasing the stalker whom they regard as a valuable employee for quite a long while and partially blaming the victim whom they regard as a novice is sickening and unfortunately all too real-life-like. Brooke Shields plays the victim and proves that she can act provided with a decent script and/or solid direction. To me, this movie testifies that her dismal performances in sub-par movies in this era of her career has to be blamed more on sub-par scripts and directors. Unfortunately, the currently available DVD from a Canadian label called New Star Video under the title Stalking Laura has got horrible image and sound quality despite the box claiming "Digitally Remastered - Enhanced Audio": It actually looks and sounds like a rip from a 2nd gen. VHS dupe. Originally aired on CBS network under the full title I Can Make You Love Me: The Stalking of Laura Black as a Tuesday movie.

Richard Thomas gives a terrific performance in the kind of movie we've seen millions of times, even as true stories. You could call it "cat-and-mouse", but considering the words "cat" and "mouse", that term is probably putting it mildly, especially when you're referring to the last act of the film. It may be predictable, but the movie gets the job done and done effectively. And the killing spree isn't too violent to the point where it would lose any momentum or meaning. It's also amazing this guy actually never attempted to romance her anyway. If he isn't afraid to stalk her, then it's a wonder why he never does anything physical (other than shooting, that is) to her.

this was not a bad movie at all and i have to say,having been a fan of Brooke shields for years i think this was her first outing at actually being able to show her acting strength.she has just gotten better and better but i was totally impressed with her performance.the movie itself can slow in parts a little bit the last half hour certainly makes up for it.i did not expect such an entertaining finale from a t.v movie.although Richard Thomas did a great job,this is Brooke's film as her screen time shows and she made the most of it.the only let down with the film are the co-stars .the look of them and their acting abilities are woeful and you wonder how they got their jobs-all except for Laura Blacks flatmate that is,who does a fair job.