"What Comes Around" (a.k.a., "Veiled Truth") is a potpourri film with a little bit of everything surrounding the oldest profession in the world. Carolyn was down on her luck, panhandling spare change when she was taken off the rough streets of New York by the sleazy Jake, who became her pimp.
The woman was known to Jake as "Angie" and, assisted by her friend Kim, she eventually set Jake up for an arrest and prison time. Jake's equally unsavory brother Duane was killed when the police burst into the apartment. After a stint in prison, Jake murders Kim, then makes a beeline to his "Angie," who has now assumed the name of Carolyn with two beautiful children and married to a rising politician named Andy Lomax.
The early part of the film makes effective use of flashbacks, and the second half unfolds Jake's scheme to blackmail Carolyn for $25,000 and to send her out for one final trick with the nefarious Victor Graznov, to whom Jake owes a significant debt.
The feisty Carolyn must improvise in order to save her children whom Jake has threatened to kill, if she doesn't follow his instructions. Carolyn does not confide in her husband, and she withholds from the police vital information about her deceased friend Kim. After she was contacted by a New York detective, Carolyn is guilty of aiding and abetting a felon by not informing the detective about Jake.
The major obstacle to Carolyn's salvation is the Russian overlord Graznov, whom Carolyn drugs and delivers a haymaker at the Four Strands Hotel in Seattle. The best line in the film is when Carolyn tells Graznov, "I punched you while you were still on your feet!" That moment leads to sustained laughter from Graznov's thugs and Graznov himself. Along the way, a major revelation occurs about the paternity of Carolyn's little boy. It turns out that he is Duane's kid, not Andy's!
Graznov now holds all of the cards in determining the fate of Carolyn and her family. In the final stretch of the film, Carolyn does a great deal of racing back and forth from Spokane to Seattle. There is a riveting ending that will determine whether or not Carolyn will be sleeping with the fishes, sleepless in Seattle, or smiling in Spokane.
The woman was known to Jake as "Angie" and, assisted by her friend Kim, she eventually set Jake up for an arrest and prison time. Jake's equally unsavory brother Duane was killed when the police burst into the apartment. After a stint in prison, Jake murders Kim, then makes a beeline to his "Angie," who has now assumed the name of Carolyn with two beautiful children and married to a rising politician named Andy Lomax.
The early part of the film makes effective use of flashbacks, and the second half unfolds Jake's scheme to blackmail Carolyn for $25,000 and to send her out for one final trick with the nefarious Victor Graznov, to whom Jake owes a significant debt.
The feisty Carolyn must improvise in order to save her children whom Jake has threatened to kill, if she doesn't follow his instructions. Carolyn does not confide in her husband, and she withholds from the police vital information about her deceased friend Kim. After she was contacted by a New York detective, Carolyn is guilty of aiding and abetting a felon by not informing the detective about Jake.
The major obstacle to Carolyn's salvation is the Russian overlord Graznov, whom Carolyn drugs and delivers a haymaker at the Four Strands Hotel in Seattle. The best line in the film is when Carolyn tells Graznov, "I punched you while you were still on your feet!" That moment leads to sustained laughter from Graznov's thugs and Graznov himself. Along the way, a major revelation occurs about the paternity of Carolyn's little boy. It turns out that he is Duane's kid, not Andy's!
Graznov now holds all of the cards in determining the fate of Carolyn and her family. In the final stretch of the film, Carolyn does a great deal of racing back and forth from Spokane to Seattle. There is a riveting ending that will determine whether or not Carolyn will be sleeping with the fishes, sleepless in Seattle, or smiling in Spokane.