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Overview

User Rating:
5.3/10   2,955 votes
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Director:

Pat O'Connor

Writer (WGA):

John Patrick Shanley (written by)

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Release Date:

13 January 1989 (USA) more

Tagline:

What a way to start the year. more

Plot:

Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back... more | add synopsis

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DVD Playhouse--November 2009
 (From The Hollywood Interview. 14 November 2009, 6:25 PM, PST)

User Comments:

Terrible, unfunny, unromantic film more (47 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kevin Kline ... Nick Starkey

Susan Sarandon ... Christine Starkey

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ... Bernadette Flynn

Harvey Keitel ... Police Commissioner Frank Starkey

Danny Aiello ... Captain Vincent Alcoa

Rod Steiger ... Mayor Eamon Flynn

Alan Rickman ... Ed
Faye Grant ... Alison Hawkins
Kenneth Welsh ... Roger Culver (as Ken Welsh)
Jayne Haynes ... Alma

Brian Tarantina ... Cone

Bruce MacVittie ... Rip

Bill Cobbs ... Detective Reilly
Greg Walker ... January Man

Tandy Cronyn ... Lana Apico
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Additional Details

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio met her future husband, the film's director Pat OConnor while working on this project. more

Goofs:

Factual errors: As a matter of definition, the integer 1 (one) is not a prime. more

Quotes:

Nick Starkey: Ed, I think it'd be best if you don't come in the apartment.
Ed: You got it. I'm an artist. I'll watch the woman.
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Movie Connections:

References The Running Man (1987) more

Soundtrack:

I KNOW THE FEELING more


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17 out of 27 people found the following comment useful.
Terrible, unfunny, unromantic film, 4 May 2000
3/10
Author: Michael Dyckman from Forest Hills, New York, USA

Terrible – Good actors with bad material. How do you go wrong with Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (I haven't liked her in anything else, but she was actually good here), Harvey Keitel, Rod Steiger, and Danny Aiello ? Put them in a movie with a terrible screenplay and nothing to do. Kline plays a former cop, now fireman, and brother of the New York City police commissioner (Keitel – do these two look like brothers at all – NO!), who is called back on the force to stop a serial killer. Sarandon is Keitel's wife and was Kline's lover, and Mastrantonio is falling for our Kevin. The worst (over)acting job goes to Steiger, who seethes like a rabid dog throughout the whole movie. Anyway, to catch this creep, Kline uses methods so unbelievable (not in a good way) that you'll be shaking your head. To think: this garbage was written by the same guy who wrote Moonstruck.

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