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Eye of the Beholder
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Stephan Elliott
Produced by	Nicolas Clermont
Written by	Stephan Elliott Marc Behm
Starring	Ewan McGregor Ashley Judd Patrick Bergin Geneviève Bujold Jason Priestley
Music by	Marius De Vries
Cinematography	Guy Dufaux
Editing by	Sue Blainey
Release date(s)	August 28, 1999
Running time	109 min
Country	Canada  United Kingdom  Australia
Language	English
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Eye of the Beholder is a thriller movie starring Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd, based on the novel of the same name by Marc Behm. The screenplay is written and directed by Stephan Elliott

The Eye (Ewan McGregor) is an intelligence agent whose current assignment is to track down the rich socialite son of his boss and find out what trouble he has gotten himself into. This leads him to Joanna Eris (Ashley Judd), a serial killer who is in a relationship with the son, and whom she murders. The Eye is a witness to the crime.

At the Pittsburgh train station, where she commits another murder, he finally corners her and is about to call for backup. Instead of turning her in, The Eye, having gone through a messy divorce with his wife getting custody of their daughter follows her in an effort to save her. He's deeply mentally distraught over losing his daughter, hallucinates constantly that she is with him, and thinks he can help Eris, as if she's a vulnerable and lost child.

This soon becomes an obsession and The Eye follows her across the country and through several murders. He soon discovers that Eris and her father were homeless, living on the street, and he abandoned her, which has led her to an immediate hatred and distrust of men. When Eris helps a rich blind man in an airport, the two become involved, fall in love and become engaged, and it looks like they might even live a happy life. The Eye, who has witnessed all of this, can not bear to let her go and marry the blind man, for he would lose her forever. He has become fully obsessed with her, willing to do anything to stop her from having a relationship with another man. While the couple is on the way to the chapel for the wedding, The Eye shoots a bullet in one of their tires and the car crashes, killing both Eris' fiancé and her unborn baby.(Though, the unborn baby may have been killed in the next act which finds Eris being forcibly injected with heroin by Jason Priestly.) After an almost entirely out-of-left-field scene in which a stranger (Jason Priestly) forces Eris to inject heroin when her car dies in the desert, Eris flees to Alaska, with the Eye on her trail.

In Alaska, The Eye gains the courage to ask Eris out, as he is a frequent patron of the diner at which she waitresses . They have a few drinks in the evening, both getting emotional, and Eris mentions where she would like to be buried when she dies. She then says she has nothing to give him, that she is empty, and that he should leave her alone. The next day Federal Police, as well as Iris's psychiatrist, come to the diner, but in the film it is never made clear how they knew that Iris would be there. The Eye tries to save her, taking her to his trailer. There she is horrified to find out that he knows her, and has been following her as if obsessed with her. She shoots him, although only with a blank cartridge. She flees and he follows her on a motorcycle, where he catches up to her, and she realizes he is the "Angel" who has saved her from every tight situation she has gotten into. At this revelation she crashes the car. She tells him she knows him as her "Angel". The film ends here.

There is much debate about whether Eris actually dies or not. The US version has a different ending than the UK version, where The Eye is seen at the cemetery where Eris wanted to be buried.

The film is a remake of Deadly Circuit (Mortelle randonnée) by Claude Miller (1983), with Isabelle Adjani.

• Eye of the Beholder at the Internet Movie Database