Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
Acting
Dreyfuss at peak charming-slacker energy
Production
Perfectly grimy post-Watergate Los Angeles
Writing
Roger L. Simon's satirical detective novel adapted
Director
Jeremy Kagan
Richard Dreyfuss
Moses Wine
Susan Anspach
Lila Shay
Bonnie Bedelia
Suzanne
John Lithgow
Sam Sebastian
F. Murray Abraham
Eppis
Ron Rifkin
Randy
Ofelia Medina
Alora
Nicolas Coster
Spitzler
Fritz Weaver
Oscar Procari Sr.
Larry Bishop
Wilson
John Cunningham
Hawthorne
Lupe Ontiveros
Maid
Mandy Patinkin
Pool Man
Jorge Cervera Jr.
Jorge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
F. Murray Abraham's tiny role here predates his Oscar win by six years; he reportedly took it for the paycheck and the chance to work with Dreyfuss.
The film captures the exact moment when '60s radicalism curdled into '70s paranoia—released months after the Jonestown massacre and during the era of revived conspiracy theories.
US
