Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn

John Heard came back from the war minus an eye, a leg and an arm. He drinks a lot and abuses his wife, who also drinks a lot. Jeff Bridges is a friend who witnesses a murder. From this point John is...( read more  read more... ) "after" the killer, along side the diseased sister, while Jeff doesn't really want to get involved in it.

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R, 109 min.

Directed by: Ivan Passer

Release Date: March 20, 1981

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DVD Release Date: July 10, 2001

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  • January 7, 2009
    An excellent, slow-burning, occasionally noirish thriller. Jeff Bridges plays Richard Bone, a yacht salesman/gigolo who accidentally witnesses the disposal of a murdered girl's body after his car breaks down in a rainstorm. When Bone thinks he recognises a wealthy local oil tycoo...( read more)n as the man he saw through the rain that night, his friend Alex Cutter (John Heard), a bitter, alcoholic Vietnam veteran, awakens from his apathetic torpor and embarks on an obsessive quest to bring the 'killer' to justice.

    From the outset Cutter is established as a landlocked, modern day Ahab - indeed, his very first words are a reference to Moby Dick - hunting not so much for the one that got away as for the one that gets away with it: the untouchable, over-privileged leviathan of big business; exactly the kind of guy who stayed home in his well-insulated ivory tower while Cutter was being relieved of an eye, an arm and a leg in Southeast Asia. It's a fascinating idea and, if anything, the script could have done more with it. No matter, because what makes the movie really special is the wonderful love triangle between Heard, Bridges and Lisa Eichhorn, who plays Cutter's wife, Mo. It will give you some idea of how great Eichhorn is in this movie if I say she wipes the floor with Heard and Bridges, both of whom are at least as good here as they've been in anything else; she breaks my heart every time and should have picked up every award going.
  • July 8, 2008
    An amazing performance by John Heard.
  • April 8, 2008
    Brilliant movie!, watch this after Big Lebowski see Bridges plays the suave ladies man in the earlier days...terrific performance from John Heard as the Vietnam vet who becomes obsessed with a local murder case. A great piece of work all round....
  • September 11, 2007
    Intriguing early 80s film. Uncompromising, understated and completely anti-Hollywood. However, apart from the decent performances and a great ending, the film was just too underwhelming. It could easily be translated into a play.
  • March 9, 2007
    an 80s Noir movie? Might be interesting

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