Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of private detective Frank Turlotte to trail him from a distance.
Acting
Langella's whispered desperation vs. Gould's world-weary warmth.
Direction
Ledes turns cramped apartments into psychological pressure cookers.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like two ghosts negotiating a haunting.
Director
Richard Ledes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Langella and Gould had never shared the screen before this, despite fifty years in parallel Hollywood careers.
The film's rotary phones and payphones aren't nostalgia — they're plot machinery, forcing delays that smartphones would collapse.
US
