Private-eye pastiche written and directed by Alan Rudolph, and seemingly a companion to his Choose Me and Trouble in Mind. The story is farcically promising -- the dick is tailing the wrong man, and is being tailed himself -- but it's cloaked in so much mood and atmosphere and attitude that it gets through to you on a several-second delay, if ever. And Rudolph hasn't much of an ear for dialogue, or for his actors either: Tom Berenger, as the inept P.I., talks like Billy Goat Gruff, and Anne Archer, as the classy dame who hires him, teeters at all moments between a sigh and a swoon. Some of the others are appealing -- Elizabeth Perkins, Annette O'Toole, Ann Magnuson, Ruby Dee -- but they're pretty much on their own. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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