Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
Acting
James Woods weaponizes his own nervous energy.
Direction
Flynn's blue-collar noir aesthetic hits different.
Writing
Larry Cohen's cynical screenplay knows too much.
Director
John Flynn
James Woods
Cleve
Brian Dennehy
Dennis Meechum
Victoria Tennant
Roberta Gillian
Allison Balson
Holly Meechum
Paul Shenar
David Madlock
George Coe
Graham
Anne Pitoniak
Mrs. Foster
Mary Carver
Cleve's mother
Kathleen Lloyd
Annie
Sully Boyar
Monks
Charles Tyner
Harold, Cleve's father
Jeffrey Josephson
Pearlman
Seymour Cassel
Carter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Larry Cohen wrote this as a loose sequel to his 1974 film The Terminal Man, reworking unused concepts.
The Nixon references ground this in post-Watergate paranoia about shadowy political fixers with blood on their hands.
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