Written, produced and directed by its star Lou Diamond Phillips, Dangerous Touch is an interesting debut for Mr. Phillips behind the camera. Certain parts of this film he did better than others, however.Lou is a sexy career criminal who's trained his sites on lovely and voluptuous Kate Vernon who is a psychologist with a talk in radio show and a best seller. Kate's treating Max Gail a syndicate kingpin who is having issues. Kate's a woman who loves sex with the joy of a Clinton era Mae West. She thinks she's found the man of her dreams when the mysterious Lou accosts and seduces her at a book signing. But he's all the time setting her up for blackmail, he wants her help to kill Max Gail by pressing on his neuroses so that he'll do it himself or his syndicate partners will out of fear that Gail will talk. Lou's at his best directing what falls this side of a soft core porn film. The sight of a nude Kate Vernon is certainly enough to stir the young men in the audience.Unfortunately the premise that she will be hurt by the exposure of her private sex life just doesn't ring true. Vernon's character is not Laura Schlessinger or someone who might work for Dr. James Dobson, someone who'd really be hurt by such a scandal. She comes across as a woman with a real healthy appetite for the erotic and exotic. Knowing that what happens in the end just doesn't make any sense.Still Lou Diamond Phillips as director and star has nothing to be ashamed of. But he should have asked me about the script.

...is so weird for me to think of! Although it seems almost pornographic at times, given the context of the lead's profession(sex therapist)and the fiery relationship with LDP, I grew up on this movie. I kept finding it on HBO when I was like 8...on vacation in motel rooms, at our house when HBO mysteriously started appearing for free and we didn't complain. And I taped it one night, and then watched it a few other times. It's an odd childhood favorite, LOL, but it's up there on my list with The Little Mermaid, Jurassic Park, and E.T. =) It's a good movie for a lazy Sunday in bed with your lover/spouse bc the plot is somewhat interesting and entertaining, both leads are fairly attractive, and it will almost certainly encourage sex to occur before the credits role. Don't expect miracles from this movie, but it's worth a look. Not what I would classify as 'family viewing'!!

Kate Vernon does a good job in this movie, especially given what she had to work with. Lou Diamond Phillips is so mis-cast it is ludicrous. His role needed someone that could pull off being smooth, suave and sophisticated enough to seduce a woman of Vernon's stature. He just doesn't have it. A pierce Brosnan or Hugh Jackman would have been much better. I give Vernon extra credit for great acting opposite a 'Neanderthal' Phillips. Of course this is just my opinion. After viewing over 6374 movies in my lifetime, I feel it is a valid opinion.

Dangerous Touch can be summed up as follows: Dean Wormer's kid has grown up into a radio psychologist. Richie Valens seduces her for only one reason - to blackmail her into giving up some privileged patient information that will enable him to eliminate WoJo, who plays a powerful crime boss that cost Richie Valens three years in the hoosegow. She won't play along, so all the gangsters start messing each other over and messing her over, and Richie Valens even has to battle the Wishmaster at one point.Anyway, the flick fulfills both halves of its erotic thriller responsibilities. The erotica is fairly hot action among recognizable people, and the movie has enough twists and turns that I watched it at regular speed and was never tempted to fast forward to the next sex scene. Richie Valens actually directed and wrote it as well! A real Orson Welles, that boy. Well, it really isn't half bad. It's not Casablanca, but Richie did was he was supposed to do for the genre. He did a lot better than Ponyboy did wearing the same three hats for "Hourglass". Unfortunately, I had to bump it down mentally to no stars because Richie never sang "La Bamba", WoJo never had coffee with Fish, Wishmaster never granted one twisted wish, and Wormer's kid never took the Deltas off double secret probation.