Olivia (1983 film)

Olivia is a 1983 American psychological thriller film directed by Ulli Lommel and starring Suzanna Love and Robert Walker Jr.

She meets an American engineer and has a brief but heated romance with him, and, several years later in Arizona, he encounters a woman who resembles her but claims not to remember him.

Four years later, Michael has returned to the United States and is residing in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where the dismantled pieces of the London Bridge have been reassembled to span the Colorado River.

The two carry on a blissful romance, but Michael begins to notice Olivia making vague references to her mother being "angry" with her, and hears her talking to herself.

Olivia returns home and gets into bed with who she believes to be Michael, only to find it is in fact Richard, who survived his fall from the bridge in London and has followed her to the United States.

As she watches the trunk sink into the water, Olivia reminisces of her mother reading her fairytales at bedtime, and telling her how one day she will find a prince.

[3] John P. Marsh, who met Lommel at a party in Santa Monica, California, originally co-wrote a screenplay for a sequel to Boogeyman II.

[4] According to co-writer and assistant director John P. Marsh, many sequences in the film—largely the interiors—were completed after filming had officially wrapped, as the production had recurrently run out of funding.

[4] Olivia premiered theatrically in the United States under the title A Taste of Sin on March 18, 1983, opening in New York City[6] and Los Angeles.

"[8] Film scholar Kim Newman wrote that Olivia is "a clever and pointed psychological thriller... Corpses are dumped into the Thames and the Colorado rivers, and the plots of Vertigo and Marnie are played with, but finally Olivia is inescapably drawn into the fairytale world beyond the bathroom mirror where her dead mother lives.

The film was partly adapted from a short film based on a story by the French writer Guy de Maupassant
The London Bridge in Lake Havasu City , Arizona served as a primary film location and plot device