It starts out in the precinct of Joseph Wambaugh's Police Story — L.A. cop shoots and kills petty drug dealer, goes on an extended bender, loses his family, emerges months later at A.A. meetings — but it soon veers off toward more routine TV cop shows. Director Hal Ashby has taken some trouble with the look of the movie, hiring the excellent Stephen Burum as photographer and getting an harmonious color scheme of smoggy, sewery browns and yellows. And he has taken some trouble with stray details as well, especially in the casting department. But with so little plot to propel the action forward, and with only marginal doodles to provide interest, it was inevitable that there would be an air of procrastination about the movie. Two well-staged shootouts near the end almost bail it out. The epilogue, with a second A.A. testimonial and a barefoot lovers' stroll on the beach, lands it swiftly back in the clink. Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Randy Brooks, Andy Garcia. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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