to the golden-aura of the Florida Keys there's not a whole lot of the usual shadow play happening, but there are some smoldering and pivotal night scene in the Keys, including a steamy love-scene between femme fatale Paula and the private eye, plus the discovery of the plane wreckage as seen through a glass-bottom boat. Hackman's character Harry Moseby is committed to the truth, but doesn't seem to have any loyalties or particularly strong convictions otherwise, he almost seems to be half-assing it at times, but when his action seem contribute to a tragedy he fiercely pursues the truth, leading up to a rather shocking culmination on the high seas, an encounter punctuated by powerful blasts of violence and some surprising bloodshed.įor a neo-noir this one stands apart as a particularly sun drenched entry, from the sun of L.A. However, if you scratch the surface and read into it there's a lot more going on, but this can we enjoyed on just a basic mystery-suspense level, too, but even then not everything is explained in explicit detail, you have to follow the clues like Harry, and even then you might just fall into the truth, not find it, just like Harry. On just a surface level there's not that much happening here, a slow-burn suspense thriller in the 70s neo-noir tradition about a private eye who finds himself in the middle of a mystery that turns out to be way more than it at first appeared to be, and in noir fashion our protagonist doesn't really get to the bottom of anything, the truth is revealed, but his detective skills are not necessarily what gets us to the revelation, he just gets caught up in it. There Harry catches up with her and spends a few days in the area with her step dad and his girlfriend Paula (Jennifer Warren, Mutant), managing to get caught up in a mystery involving smuggling, and a corpse found in a submerged plane wreck, all of which is further complicated by the fact that Harry's wife Ellen (Susan Clark, Porky's) is not so secretly sleeping with another man behind Harry's back! This train of thought sends Harry further East to the Florida Keys to check on Arlene's ex, Tom Iverson (John Crawford, Boogens), Delly's former stepfather, who now runs a seedy boat-tour operation out of the Keys. Harry's investigation takes him to New Mexico movie set where Delly was involved with a Hollywood stuntman who once dated her mother, it occurs to Harry that the promiscuous teen is seducing men who were once her mother's lovers - which is perverse, the girl definitely has some daddy issues, and it gets even worse. ![]() ![]() private-detective Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman, The Conversation) takes on the case of a runaway teenager named Delly Grastner (Melanie Griffith, Roar) - hired by her boozer/tramp mother, Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward), a b-movie Hollywood star whose best days are far behind her at this point, she's living on her daughter's inheritance cut out of her ex's will after a nasty divorce. Former pro-footballer turned low-rent L.A.
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