Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and Nadine are pursued by goons with guns.
Acting
Bridges and Basinger's divorced chemistry crackles with authentic ex-lover spite.
Writing
Robert Benton's dialogue makes murder plots feel like couples therapy.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI car chases through Austin streets hit different.
Director
Robert Benton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Benton wrote this between Oscar wins for Kramer vs. Kramer and Places in the Heart, essentially as a palate cleanser.
Shot entirely in Austin during its pre-South by Southwest boom, capturing a weird, vanishing Texas that barely exists now.
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