Lizzie Borden, of Working Girls, paddles into the mainstream with a sex thriller about a smarmy scam artist (Patrick Bergin) who poses as a world-renowned photographer -- the David Hanover of Vogue magazine -- in order to get women to pose for his camera. His modus operandi is intriguing and troubling, and his sexual crimes (separate from his straightforward crimes like car theft) really do occupy "a gray area," as it is here designated. The storyline has its trashy aspect: the female D.A. of Atlanta (Sean Young, heavy on the styling gel) who has exactly the right psychological profile to compel her to step out of line and to play private detective as well as potential victim. Artistically (forget about "politically correctly"), this is a bold flirtation with negative and reactionary attitudes: if a woman is put in a position of power (district attorney, film director, whatever), will she then be able to handle the job in a professional manner? Borden comes out of it better than her protagonist, although she's too high-minded, or too unskilled a technician, to make the most of the suspense. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd