Brent Spiner before Data — a sitcom writer hunting killer apartments in 80s NYC chaos.
Leonard Junger, an aspiring television writer, tries to find a cheap apartment for his estranged wife and daughter so that they can be a family again. During his quest, he encounters mystery and murder.
Acting
Spiner's desperate everyman energy — proof he could do more than androids.
Production
Grime-caked authentic 1984 Manhattan locations, now extinct.
Writing
Sitcom-writer protagonist in a script that needed his fictional help.
Director
Gian Luigi Polidoro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Gian Luigi Polidoro was an Italian comedy veteran; this was his lone English-language feature.
Filmed during NYC's worst housing crisis since WWII — the 'mystery and murder' barely exaggerates apartment-hunting reality.
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