The three male leads in this harbor side drama set in the hamptons, on long island are all perfect sleezeballs...and dana delany and kim catrall are equally up to the task...meg tilly made a good naive dupe with untold millions to feather her nest...the cost of trimming out a yacht racing boat is perhaps more costly than the depth of the deepest ocean trench...rob lowe is no sailor and likely doesn't know a bowline from a sheepshank or marlin spike from a marlin so he barely gets the job done....a real sailor doesn't need hype, just knowledge of the winds and his boat...i guess the same could be said about a husband and wife

If Masquerade had been filmed about 30 years earlier, it would have been directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starred Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. The storyline is very Hitchcock. Enchanting heiress Meg Tilly is never really sure who truly loves her and who is after her money. Surely her drunken, salacious stepfather John Glover and his trampy mistress Dana Delaney fall into the latter category. The current lawman Doug Savant seems to be carrying a torch for her, but Tilly is soon all eyes for local gigolo Rob Lowe, who dumps rich married Kim Cattrall and sweeps Tilly off of her feet into a whirlwind romance and marriage. And then Tilly starts having near misses on her life.Although the film fails to reach its full potential, there is a lot to recommend it, particularly for fans of the genre. The beautiful Hamptons scenery and the foray into the lifestyles of the rich and famous chief among them. The screenplay is well thought out and, starting from the two-thirds mark, twists and turns all over the place, but without losing its credibility. While Bob Swaim's direction is sometimes flaccid and allows the pace to slacken a bit too often, it usually regains its composure within a reasonable timeframe.Glover and Delaney have a blast in their roles. And there is strong support from Savant as the local lawman with a fancy of his own for Tilly. Cattrall has a largely thankless task - she gets to doff her duds and engage in sex scenes with Lowe to establish his credentials as a gigolo - but her character ends up being excess baggage with not even a tenuous relation to the main plot.The leads are a mixed bag. Tilly is quite wonderful as the heiress. She nicely walks the line between naivete and savvy - never making her heroine too suspicious, but not making her a pushover either. We believe her that she is in love with Lowe and we believe that she has the smarts to navigate her way through the various treacheries that litter her life. It is a rock solid performance and it is a shame that she is no longer acting. By contrast, Lowe is no Cary Grant. I have nothing against Lowe, but he performs much better in support or an ensemble cast than when called upon to lead the way. He is an attractive, amiable, but not especially charismatic leading man. As eye candy that would attract both Tilly and Cattrall, Lowe is semi-believable and contributes a couple of welcome nude scenes. However, when he needs to communicate some of the mystery of the man in question, his performance falters. The screenplay really needs us to wonder whether this guy really loves Tilly or may be trying to murder her - and we do wonder. Unfortunately, we wonder because the screenplay prompts us and because Lowe is often so vacuous in important moments that it is impossible to tell what, if anything, he is feeling. By the time the film concludes and provides us with our answer, we realize that Lowe's performance has laid no groundwork for the denouement. His acting here provides such limited impact/emotion that we have nothing invested in his character outside of what his plans for Tilly may be. Savant's supporting character actually ends up being more intriguing and better acted than the lead. This is truly a case where the film would have benefited from a stronger actor in the lead role.That said, fans of the genre will still find much to enjoy and admire here.

Ok.. This movie stars Rob Lowe(The West Wing), Meg(whatever happened to) Tilly, John Glover( in his A**hole role that he always does well but looks creepy and Doug Savant ( which is best known as the gay guy off of Melrose Place. I remember watching this movie back when it first came out and decided to rent it again after all those years. The Guy who wrote this movie, Dick Wolf is a great writer and he must have been testing out his sea legs with this trash. Meg Tilly acts and sounds like she's on drugs, Rob Lowe acts devilish along with John Glover who by the way looks like his hairstylist had a little too much fun with his hair and Doug Savant APPEARS to be the nice guy.*****SPOILER ALERT********************* Rich Girl graduates college, Rich Girl comes home gets a wonderful greetings from her Cop Friend and her horrid stepfather who lives off of her bankroll because her mother had a very bad attorney. Rich Girl meets Bad Boy Sailor. Stepfather appears to hate Bad Boy Sailor, and in a fit one night barges in when Rich Girl and Bad Boy are in bed. Bad Boy shoots stepfather, Rich Girl covers up, Cop Friend immediately suspects Bad Boy, Stepfather's Girlfriend hangs self and to celebrate Rich Girl gets married to Bad Boy Sailor and finds out she is pregnant with Child and we then learn the truth about her Bad Boy Sailor when we see a great photo op on the wall at the cop's place. We then realize Cop is the Bad Cop, and the Bad Boy Sailor wants to play the good guy all because his hit is pregnant.. AW.. we feel sorry for him.. NOT.... This movie could have been better if the writer rewrote the Bad Boys and the plot a little differently. The movie ends on a surprise bad note and leaves you wishing that one of the characters ended up alive... If you watch.. beware because this movie can be watched in 10 minutes on fast foward and you can get the whole movie that way in less time so you don't end up disappointed.

This is one of those movies that I'm glad I saw when it first came out. I remember that the theater was almost empty, but when I was leaving I heard people saying things like, "I never expected to like it that much". Rob Lowe gained credibility as an actor in my eyes with this film(and with another film called Bad Influence).