A New York private eye searches for a socialite who supposedly drowned 10 years before.
Acting
Tommy Lee Jones doing world-weary before it was his brand.
Cinematography
Manhattan as a rotting dreamscape, gorgeously grimy.
Director
Lloyd Fonvielle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kevin Jarre, who plays Tim, wrote the screenplay for Glory and Tombstone—this was his acting debut.
Released the same year as Die Hard, this represents the other 1988: grim, cheap, destined for obscurity.
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