The veteran Miami crime reporter is on the brink of burn-out: "I don't want to see my name in the paper next to pictures of dead bodies anymore." But his handling of a serial murder story so impresses the perpetrator that the latter phones him up and nominates him as his public mouthpiece. The reporter's enthusiasm for the job immediately warms up. His editor feels he "may be entering Pulitzer territory." His girlfriend, on the other hand, becomes the voice of journalistic ethics ("Are you reporting it or participating in it?") as well as the voice of jealousy. The killer soon becomes jealous, too, when the reporter begins to steal the limelight. A nice twist, that. In fact the entire premise is quite gripping, although the extremes to which the movie will go in order to drum up suspense give you plenty of room and reason to squirm loose. Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan; directed by Phillip Borsos. (1985) — Duncan Shepherd
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