Not much good as a whodunit: there are too few characters (i.e., suspects) in it for that. It is much more a "character" and "relationship" thing, concerning a high-strung and hard-drinking Hollywood has-been (or never-was: "They were grooming me," she boasts, "to be the new Vera Miles") and a casually racist and formerly hard-drinking Bakersfield cop. The relationship isn't really all that interesting either, apart from a very interesting kissing scene, but the individual characters are well played by Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges. Sidney Lumet arranges the action in front of wide swaths of Miami Vice-ish color to prove that he, too, can be hip or hep or whatever the hell that is. With Raul Julia. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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