Strictly routine case of police corruption, with dashes of Cajun flavoring around New Orleans, and a mildly spicy sex scene ("Stop that," the woman protests, in reference to the man's out-of-frame hand. "That?" he leers. "Or that?"). Its most distinctive feature, however, is its attitude of Old World (or Man's World) condescension toward the heroine. Sure, she's risen to the post of Assistant D.A., and she's on the right trail in her investigations, but she's also uptight, sexually repressed, a flutter of eyelids in the courtroom, needy of a good strong man, and unable to hold her ground under the least little pressure from such a one. The case itself stays lifelessly on the sidelines: names keep being thrown around, and corpses turning up, of people we've never met, and it's hard to take an interest. With Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, and Ned Beatty; directed by Jim McBride. (1987) — Duncan Shepherd
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