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Never has a cover more accurately captured the spirit of a movie than this one...or at least that how's it seems to me. The Postman Always Rings Twice (the 1981 remake) has some of the strangest, most unromantic sex scenes I've ever witnessed in a film.

Certainly the acting is first-rate. You can't get much better than Jessica Lange (always, always terrific in whatever role she takes on!) and Jack Nicholson (never one to suffer fools, but surprisingly sensitive, at times, in The Postman.)

Nicholson and Lange play two people savagely in love. One minute it seems they want to kill each other, the next they can't bear to be apart. I didn't particularly care for Postman; it made me very uneasy and yet, oddly, there were times I wanted to laugh when the scene wasn't supposed to be funny.

Even so, The Postman Always Rings Twice satisfied a curiosity I'd long had...since it first appeared in the early 80s and it always seemed I was too young to be allowed to watch it. For some reason, when I was eleven, I had the idea it was a horror flick.

In some sense, I guess it is!