Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy (1992)

Ivy thought her best friend had the perfect house, the perfect family, the perfect life. So she took them.

A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.

Date of release
1992-05-08
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (422)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Director
Katt Shea
Collection
Poison Ivy Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $3M

Poison Ivy is a 1992 American erotic thriller film directed by Katt Shea. It stars Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt and Cheryl Ladd. The original music score was composed by David Michael Frank. The film was shot in Los Angeles.

Production

Producers Melissa Goddard and Peter Morgan brought the original idea to New Line. The studio hired Katt Shea, who had made a number of movies for Roger Corman; according to head of production Sara Risher, the studio wanted "a teenage Fatal Attraction".

The film developed greatly from this premise. There were three different drafts of the script and four different endings. According to Shea, the original ending had Ivy getting away with her crimes and hitch-hiking along a road. However, New Line insisted that Ivy be punished and made her shoot a new ending where Ivy died. At that point, New Line wanted Shea to revive the character for sequels, which the director refused to do.

Shea says that she never regarded Ivy as villainous, but rather as a tragic character who just wants to be loved. She credits this for the film's popularity.

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