A murder caught on film. What happens when the watcher becomes the watched?
A white cop apprehends, then murders, a Black purse thief in the street. A Black film student witnesses the murder and begins surveilling the cop in his everyday life. Based on the novel "Shoot It" by Paul Tyner; filmed in Kansas City.
Acting
Moriarty's cop is terrifyingly banal evil.
Direction
McGuire turns Kansas City into suffocating moral grime.
Director
Dennis McGuire
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Dennis McGuire never made another feature; this was his single howl into the void.
Filmed in Kansas City precisely because Hollywood wouldn't touch this story in '74. The location IS the statement.
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