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Release Date:
26 July 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
V.I. Warshawski: A private detective with a name as tough as she is. more
Plot:
A female PI babysitting for a boyfriend gets stuck with his daughter and the case of her murdered father. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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User Comments:
This movie was much better than the critics thought
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kathleen Turner | ... | Victoria 'V.I.' Warshawski | |
| Jay O. Sanders | ... | Murray Ryerson | |
| Charles Durning | ... | Det. Lt. Bobby Mallory | |
| Angela Goethals | ... | Kat Grafalk, Bernard's Daughter | |
| Nancy Paul | ... | Paige Wilson Grafalk | |
| Frederick Coffin | ... | Horton Grafalk | |
| Charles McCaughan | ... | Trumble Grafalk | |
| Stephen Meadows | ... | Bernard 'Boom-Boom' Grafalk | |
| Wayne Knight | ... | Earl 'Bonehead' Smeissen | |
| Lynnie Godfrey | ... | Sal, Golden Glow Bartender | |
| Anne Pitoniak | ... | Dr. Lotty Herschel | |
| Stephen Root | ... | Mickey | |
| Robert Clotworthy | ... | Philip Pugh, Attorney | |
| Tom Allard | ... | Big Eddie, Earl's Thug | |
| Mike Hagerty | ... | Babe (as Michael G. Hagerty) |
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V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels (USA) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
89 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:12 |
Netherlands:12 |
Finland:K-14 |
Germany:12 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Australia:M |
New Zealand:R |
Canada:14A (Ontario)
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Kathleen Turner went on to play V.I. Warshawski on BBC radio.
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Quotes:
Victoria "V.I." Warshawski:
When in doubt, hesitate!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Drew Barrymore/Kelis (#29.12)" (2004)
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Soundtrack:
Sittin' On Top Of The World
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Viewed this movie on 11/20/04, and it was so entertaining that it kept me up until two in the morning. My wife, who has markedly different tastes than I do, liked it enough to stay up with me. Imagine my surprise when I went to Maltin to look up a character, and found it classed as a BOMB. He panned it as wretchedly scripted, directed and photographed. To the contrary, I found the script to be easily followed, something that is getting more and more rare in this age of obscure scripts. If it was poorly directed, the actors are geniuses, becaust the scenes hung together well, were understandable and seemed completely natural, even though the story line was a bit picaresque. The photography was certainly adequate to tell the story without intruding on it.
Maltin and I may have seen different movies, because his plot summary spoke of a murdered hockey player, and without betraying too much of the plot, there were plenty of murders but no hockey player in the movie I saw. The plot in the movie I saw was delightfully complex, with a number of twists and turns that would have done O'Henry proud. All in all, it was two hours well spent.