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Kathleen Turner, Jay O Sanders, Charles Durning

You couldn't do better than Kathleen Turner to bring Sara Peretsky’s tough but tender Chicago PI (who goes by her initials "because it makes it harder for people to patronize [her]") to the big screen...( read more  read more... ). Too bad her vehicle is such routine murder mystery. The story of an insolent teenager (Angela Goethals) who hires Warshawski to investigate her father’s suspicious death never rises above TV detective show melodrama, and Jeff Kanew’s generic direction is less hardboiled than over-easy. The film’s pleasures are all in the performances: smart, stylish, and sassy, Turner can toss off a tart retort with the best of them and her chemistry with Goethals’s foul-mouthed wharf rat is as much mentor as maternal protector. Given a better script, Turner could have hung her shingle on this character for years to come. --Sean Axmaker

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R, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Jeff Kanew

Release Date: July 26, 1991

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DVD Release Date: June 4, 2002

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Flixster Reviews (93)

  • LisaMJ
    June 9, 2008
    LisaMJ
    Not very good.
  • bluerabbit2005
    November 25, 2008
    bluerabbit2005
    Solid crime thriller...overlooked and underrated
  • leelover06
    April 15, 2008
    leelover06
    AMAZING FILM LOVE IT!!
  • joyndick
    November 19, 2007
    joyndick
    Good book, but the movie wasn't as good as I had hoped.
  • xoxoxSPOILEDxoxox
    August 29, 2007
    xoxoxSPOILEDxoxox
    WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN
  • AgentLexi2132
    August 20, 2007
    AgentLexi2132
    Could be worthwhile, will see.
  • sneakypetegb
    July 28, 2007
    sneakypetegb
    Turner in a contemporary hard-boiler does her character well, a fun flic.
  • MovieGuruDude72
    July 9, 2007
    MovieGuruDude72
    Utter crap. I'm still convinced Kathleen Turner is really a man.

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