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Writers:
John Katzenbach (novel)
Leon Piedmont (screenplay)
Release Date:
15 February 1985 (USA) more
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He was a lead reporter...this was a lead story which led to death. more
Plot:
Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders... more | add synopsis
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1 win more
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Tight little thriller shot on location more (31 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kurt Russell | ... | Malcolm Anderson | |
| Mariel Hemingway | ... | Christine Connelly | |
| Richard Jordan | ... | Alan Delour | |
| Richard Masur | ... | Bill Nolan | |
| Richard Bradford | ... | Phil Wilson | |
| Joe Pantoliano | ... | Andy Porter | |
| Andy Garcia | ... | Ray Martinez | |
| Rose Portillo | ... | Kathy Vasquez | |
| William Smith | ... | Albert O'Shaughnessy | |
| John Palmer | ... | Himself | |
| Lee Sandman | ... | Harold Jacoby | |
| Dan Fitzgerald | ... | Carl Mason | |
| Cynthia Caquelin | ... | Ruth Lowenstein | |
| Fred Ornstein | ... | Warren Phillips | |
| Fritz Bronner | ... | Peter Peterson |
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103 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1985) | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #27614) | West Germany:16 | Netherlands:16
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The actual City of Miami Police Department's SWAT Team appeared in the movie as the City of Miami Police Department's SWAT Team in a scene where Kurt Russell's character enters the house of a victim. Many interiors were also filmed inside the City of Miami Police Department Headquarters. more
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Anderson misspells "apparent" as "apparrent" on his word processor, and leaves it uncorrected. This may only be a character error, but it's odd considering he's a potential Pulitzer-winning journalist. more
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One of the early serial killer flicks and it still packs a punch. Kurt Russell's Malcolm Anderson reminds me a lot of Darrin McGavin's Kolchak, the skeptical paranormal investigator from TV's "The Night Stalker", from their lousy taste in clothes to their hardheaded devotion to the truth as journalists. Kolchak stalked freaks & creeps and Anderson gets the experience in reverse, seriously wreaking havoc on his off-work romance with girlfriend Christine (Mariel Hemingway), a schoolteacher with strong values. Richard Jordan is suitably creepy in one of his last roles--really a variation on the local corporate slimeball he played in another made-in-FL minor classic, "A Flash Of Green"--as the killer. Andy Garcia is also quite likeable in the role he's best at: solid support work as a police detective pal of Russell's journalist who inadvertantly gets as much press as the glory-seeking villain. I've seen this picture several times and never tire of it. It's in that class of films with "Night Moves", "Flash of Green", maybe "House of Games" and "Blood & Wine": tough-guy thrillers with smart writing and heroes to boot.