put the kids and some of the adults to bed. hopper, hershey and harris are amazing. this is a truly brutal story. and reading some of the other reviews here, i was shocked to realize it was based on a true story. hopper is about as brutal of an innocent as you'll ever see portrayed on film. he just doesn't get it. he has no back-story that would indicate that his character is truly as repugnant and as destructive as a character could be. meanwhile we are all fed clues as to his time and his place in that time that would indicate why he has an innocence of mind that would drive him conversely to do the horrible things that he does. he believes he is above the law because he is a product of a person who would believe that way. he brutalizes his wife and, most distressingly, murders people who he has always believed that it was his right to lord over. the murder scene of the mother and her young girl are riveting(acting)and incredibly shocking. when Paris incredulously finds that the law is against him, he descends gradually into a period of psychosis that he never recovers from because everything inside of him tells him that he has done no wrong and that he is being conspired against. his paranoia makes him place glass on the floors of his bedroom to detect footprints. and, for my money, hopper's best scene (a simple, intense and short one) is when he opens his kitchen cabinet and says, "FOOD in CANS!" i won't go into more details of the story because of other reviews here. and i won't tell the ending. what i will say is that hopper's performance here is probably the most transcendent of his long career. -bobby cormier
Review of Paris Trout
Paris Trout
(1991 TV Movie)
Paris Trout...nearly flawless, completely abhorrent and amazing
23 May 2010