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Best Seller
1987
Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is a cop who has supplemented his meager policeman's salary by writing a succession of lurid crime novels, including one based on an episode from his own life. But his imagination fails him after his wife's tragic, premature death from cancer. Lonely, burned-out, and unable to write, Meechum is .. Read more
| Starring | Brian Dennehy, James Woods, Victoria Tennant, Jenny Gago |
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| Director | John Flynn |
| Genres | Drama |
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Best Seller
Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is a cop who has supplemented his meager policeman's salary by writing a succession of lurid crime novels, including one based on an episode from his own life. But his imagination fails him after his wife's tragic, premature death from cancer. Lonely, burned-out, and unable to write, Meechum is shaken from his doldrums by his "chance" meeting with a former hit man named Cleve (James Woods). Cleve drags the writer around the country presenting him with details and evidence of an outlandish national murder spree orchestrated by a wealthy man considered to be a pillar of Los Angeles society. It is Meechum's job to put it all down in a book and make his informer the hero of the expose, but he soon realizes that he and the mysterious Cleve share a past--and, worse yet, that the hit man has by no means given up his murderous ways. A crackling suspense thriller with a plot like a Pachinko machine.
| Starring | Brian Dennehy, James Woods, Victoria Tennant, Jenny Gago |
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| Director | John Flynn |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 31 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English, German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Polish, Spanish |
| Released | Production year: 1987 To Rent: DVD: 16 Sep 2002 |
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This Larry Cohen-scripted thriller reworks the old idea of the symbiotic relationship between cop and killer, adding a... read more on Time Out
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Good acting lifts thriller
In many ways this is a 'run of the mill' thriller with a plot that wouldn't have seemed out of place in Columbo. But the acting of the two leads ... read more »
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- 21 Jul 2004 at 18:53
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Still outstanding
Outstanding when it first came out, still so now. Tremendous cast and story line.
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Too much violence/murder for me.
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Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is a cop who has supplemented his meager policeman's salary by writing a succession of lurid crime novels, including one based on an episode from his own life. But his imagination fails him after his wife's tragic, premature death from cancer. Lonely, burned-out, and ...
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