{"id":40869,"date":"2025-12-30T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40869"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:35:05","slug":"shattered-1991-written-directed-by-wolfgang-peterson-starring-tom-berenger-bob-hoskins-and-greta-scacchi-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40869","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shattered&#8221; (1991) written &amp; directed by Wolfgang Peterson, starring Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins and Greta Scacchi \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z123025zview_shattered.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"779\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Shattered <\/strong><\/em>(1991)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Wolfgang Petersen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Wolfgang Petersen;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48YkBi1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE PLASTIC NIGHTMARE<\/a> by Richard Neeley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Tom Berenger<\/strong><strong>, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen, Bert Rosario, Kellye Nakahara, Frank Cavestani <\/strong>and <strong>Theodore Bikel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> A love he can&#8217;t forget. A murder he can&#8217;t remember.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dan Merrick wakes up in a hospital with no memory of how he got there.\u00a0 His injuries were gruesome.\u00a0 He barely lived.\u00a0 His face required reconstructive plastic surgery.\u00a0 The concussion left him with psychogenic amnesia.\u00a0 But he lived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dan learns driving home late one night he and Judith, his wife, were involved in a terrible accident. The car went off the road and over a steep embankment.\u00a0 Judith suffered minor injuries when she was thrown from the car.\u00a0 Dan has no memory of the accident or anything from his past.\u00a0 The doctors say it could slowly return&#8230; or not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Judith is so loving and attentive to Dan as he recovers.\u00a0 Dan learns he was a partner in an architectural firm.\u00a0 Slowly flashes of memory come to Dan but they make no sense.\u00a0 As Dan is going through things he comes across hidden photos.\u00a0 They are of Judith.\u00a0 With another man.\u00a0 Judith was cheating on him!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Dan&#8217;s memory slowly returns he begins to wonder about the accident. The same wreck that nearly killed him, left Judith with minor injuries.\u00a0 If Judith and her lover were trying to kill him, Dan is sure that they will conspire to finish the job.<\/p>\n<p>If only he could remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Shattered<\/em> delivers as a Hitchcockian psychological erotic thriller.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fun neo-noir mystery filled with surprises and a fun twist ending.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shattered<\/em> reminds me of a film that would have been made in the 1940s, but instead is a product of 1990s film sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>I love it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Shattered <\/strong><\/em>(1991) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z123025zview_shattered2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shattered (1991) Director: Wolfgang Petersen Screenplay: Wolfgang Petersen;\u00a0based on THE PLASTIC NIGHTMARE by Richard Neeley Stars: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40870,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40869\/revisions\/40870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}