Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
William Hurt | ... | Daryll Deever | |
Sigourney Weaver | ... | Tony Sokolow | |
Christopher Plummer | ... | Joseph | |
James Woods | ... | Aldo | |
Irene Worth | ... | Mrs. Sokolow | |
Kenneth McMillan | ... | Mr. Deever | |
Pamela Reed | ... | Linda Mercer | |
Albert Paulsen | ... | Mr. Sokolow | |
Steven Hill | ... | Lt. Jacobs | |
Morgan Freeman | ... | Lt. Black | |
Alice Drummond | ... | Mrs. Deever | |
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Sharon Chatten | ... | Israeli Woman (as Sharon Goldman) |
Chao Li Chi | ... | Mr. Long | |
Keone Young | ... | Mr. Long's Son | |
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Dennis Sakamoto | ... | Vietnamese Man #1 |
Fresh off the success of Breaking Away (1979), writer Steve Tesich and director Peter Yates re-team on a thriller starring a young William Hurt as a janitor infatuated with television reporter Sigourney Weaver. When she arrives at his building to interview the tenants about a murder that's occurred on the premises, the janitor, having discovered the body, implies that he knows more than he's saying in order to keep the newswoman interested. Although he reveals nothing more, she does become interested in him, and when her nefarious aristocratic boyfriend (Christopher Plummer) learns from the unwitting woman that there's someone with knowledge of the murder, he's more concerned about what Hurt might know than about her relationship with him. Meanwhile, his paranoid, loose cannon of a friend James Woods has managed to get himself incriminated, although he had no involvement in the case. Hurt and Weaver continue to investigate the murder together, and as they become more closely entwined,...
William Hurt plays a Manhattan Janitor named Daryl Deaver, who is obsessed with a local newswoman named Tony Sokolow(played by Sigourney Weaver). When a Vietnamese man with a shady past is murdered in Daryl's building, he takes full advantage of meeting his crush by insinuating that he knows more about the murder than he does. Tony goes along with him, flattered but unsure. When the true killers get wind of Daryl's story, they plan on eliminating him, and before they know it, their really is a conspiracy to report...
Good acting by its fine cast(which includes James Woods, Morgan Freeman, and Christopher Plummer) cannot save this contrived and unconvincing mystery, which just doesn't amount to much.