Acting on Impulse is a 1993 film starring Linda Fiorentino

Linda Fiorentino

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, Nancy Allen

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 and C. Thomas Howell

C. Thomas Howell

Christopher Thomas "Tommy" Howell , known by his stage name C. Thomas Howell, is an American actor and film director. He starred in the films The Outsiders as Ponyboy Curtis and in The Hitcher as Jim Halsey. He has appeared in The Da Vinci Treasure,Soul Man, Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, Gettysburg, H. G...

. The film is also known under the alternate titles Secret Lives and Eyes of a Stranger. Adam Ant

Adam Ant

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, Isaac Hayes

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, Zelda Rubinstein

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 and Dick Sargent

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, in his last role, make cameo appearances.

Critical response

The Kansas City Star

The Kansas City Star

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called Acting on Impulse "perverse fun" while Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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noted it as an "inevitable goofball thriller" saying of the ensemble, "The best bits here are the ones that seem to be going nowhere — the scenes of Fiorentino, C. Thomas Howell, and Nancy Allen drunkenly goofing around are simultaneously relaxed and fraught with sexual tension."