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1997 Certificate 15
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Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, trust and double-cross. Read more

Starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Stockard Channing
Director Robert Benton
Genres Gay/Lesbian, Thriller

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Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, trust and double-cross.

Starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Stockard Channing, Reese Witherspoon, Giancarlo Esposito, James Garner, Cora Witherspoon
Director Robert Benton
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Gay/Lesbian, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Dubbed French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 10 Jun 2002
Production year: 1997
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    It's always a pleasure to see Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon and Paul Newman at work, and this low-key detective drama that harks back to the heyday of film noir is no exception. Newman stars as a private eye who lives with cancer-stricken actor Hackman and his wife Sarandon. Asked to deliver blackmail money, Newman finds himself resurrecting a 20-year-old murder case involving Sarandon's ex-husband. Newman as a seventysomething is still convincing in both action and love scenes, but the overall pace of the film tends towards the sluggish and its reflective mood probably explains why it didn't make it big at the box office.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...Mr. Newman still has the wisecracking vigor and panache that have always shaped his screen roles. He inhabits his shrewd, world-weary character with the ease that only lifelong movie stardom can bring..."

    • New York Times
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 8 out of 9 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    A feeble attempt at Film Noir

    A first-rate cast are lumbered with a third-rate script in Robert Benton's tedious thriller. Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a retired ex-cop, who, like all ex-cops in the movies, has also been through private detective work and alcoholism. Harry is now living with, and working for Jack Ames (Gene Hackman), who is dying of cancer, and his seductive wife Catherine (Susan Sarandon). Jack and Catherine are both former movie stars who were also, once upon a time, involved in some dodgy, dangerous dealings. Harry, as a favour, agrees to sort out a situation for Jack, and this leads to some painful secrets from the past being uncovered.

    From this starting point 'Twilight' gets horribly tangled up in a web of cliches and far too much plot. Benton's flat and predictable direction is abysmal, sucking any semblance of tension out of the film. The dismal dialogue(by Benton and Richard Russo) sinks like a stone as soon as it leaves the actor's mouths.

    The talented cast is wasted here with a few scraps of character between them. Hackman spends his brief screen time grouching and wheezing. Paul Newman occupies himself by standing around stiff as a board and staring at everything in a curious matter. James Garner, Stockard Channing and Reese Witherspoon also appear somewhere under the rubble of this picture.

    The actor who come off best from this mess is Susan Sarandon. Effortlessly sexy, she injects a much-needed shot of life into the veins of the film. But it's not enough, 'Twilight' is dead in the water and without it's star power it would surely be popping up as an average TV movie, nothing more.

      • Philip Concannon from London
      • Posted 29 Jul 2004 23:58

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Gene Hackman, Paul Newman

    Good `b' type movie for when you just want to watch something of good quality without it being a life changing experience. Lots of big names hence - good acting, story, plot, dialogue all ok.

      • A customer from West of England
      • Posted 25 Jan 2006 18:02

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