Raising Cain (1992) review

Physician Jenny Nix (Lolita Davidovich), whose husband is well-respected child psychologist Carter (John Lithgow), has a chance encounter with old flame Jack Dante (Steven Bauer) and they have an affair; when Carter sees this, his various alternate personalities emerge (all played by Lithgow) and "he" becomes a vicious murderer.  Even though I watched the "re-cut" version by Dutch filmmaker Peet Gelderblom - which was approved by De Palma himself - it's still an incoherent debacle: the Jenny character is apparently killed off several times (sometimes in a dream) but somehow she keeps sticking around, it's never clear at any point in time what is actually happening and then, in a true sign of desperation, it drags in Frances Sternhagen's "expert" in multiple personality disorder to "explain" Carter's psychotic behavior (before she's headbutted).  You could have begged Thelma Schoonmaker, Dede Allen or Pietro Scalia to start from scratch and try to assemble a viewable product, but I doubt they could have saved it without reshoots ... although I guess fans of Mr. Lithgow might appreciate him attempting to play five different "characters."