Review of Shining Through (1992) by Vanessa K — 19 Feb 2009
This is probably underrated because - it is a wartime chick flick---an odd category.
Linda Voss, streetwise daughter of a Jewish German immigrant father, talks her Harvard educated boss (played by Michael Douglas) into letting her spy for him in Nazi Germany.
Melanie Griffith (as Linda Voss) has a frail appearance and delicate voice which deceives lots of people into thinking she has no guts...
But she secures a chance to spy for the Allies, and even secures a job as governess into the home of Liam Neeson, who plays a widowed version of real life Werner Von Braun (the V2 rocket designer).
She uses escape and evasion techniques from actual "wartime romance" movies our moms & grandmas watched...(Griffith's Linda Voss secretary becomes spy character could be the fictional MOM of the secretary seeking success movie "Working Girl" which she made a few years earlier.
Even my "too cool" 10 year old son stopped to watch some of this movie (tho it was after the unnecessary bedroom scene was shown). Otherwise, it's a good film.
This review of Shining Through (1992) was written by Vanessa K on 19 Feb 2009.
Shining Through has generally received positive reviews.
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