Rapture, The

VHS, R, 100 minutes, NEW LINE

The acclaimed film "The Rapture" is a sexual and spiritual awakening. Written and directed by Michael Tolkin (writer-producer of "The Player"), this powerful thriller stars Mimi Rogers ("Someone To Watch Over Me") and David Duchovny ("Kalifornia," "The X-Files"). Rogers gives the performance of a lifetime as Sharon, a bored, beautiful telephone operator who seeks excitement in orgiastic sex with strangers. Later, tormented by feelings of emptiness, she attempts suicide. Comforted by members of a cult-like religion who are preparing for the second coming of Christ-"the Rapture"-Sharon undergoes a religious conversion that is hallucinatory, frightening, and ultimately tragic. Praised for its power and originality, "The Rapture" is "unnerving and outrageously uncompromising...you haven't seen anything like it"(Newsweek).