IMDB 6.4
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Jack's Rating :
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Interesting noir with a homme fatale. In this movie Jack Forrester (Jeff Bridges) drags down Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close).
A woman is killed and the chief suspect is her husband. The woman was brutally murdered and the evidence begins to build against Jack who was going to profit from his wife's death.
Teddy Barnes doesn't want to take the case, she doesn't do criminal cases any more, but she is talked in to it by her firm. She believes in Jack, then loses faith in him and then believes in him again.
The movie was similiar in style to another story Joe Eszterhas wrote, The Music Box. The movie revolves around the guilt or innocence of the man, and you really don't know which way it will go until the very end. Both movies worked for me.
A good movie although it was formulaic and predictable in that you knew it was going to end with Jack being guilty or innocent, and then the movie would end.
A woman is killed and the chief suspect is her husband. The woman was brutally murdered and the evidence begins to build against Jack who was going to profit from his wife's death.
Teddy Barnes doesn't want to take the case, she doesn't do criminal cases any more, but she is talked in to it by her firm. She believes in Jack, then loses faith in him and then believes in him again.
The movie was similiar in style to another story Joe Eszterhas wrote, The Music Box. The movie revolves around the guilt or innocence of the man, and you really don't know which way it will go until the very end. Both movies worked for me.
A good movie although it was formulaic and predictable in that you knew it was going to end with Jack being guilty or innocent, and then the movie would end.
Quotes:
Michael Sullivan: He murdered Annie and Peter!
John Rooney: There are only murderers in this room! Michael! Open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven.
Michael Sullivan: Michael could.
John Rooney: Then do everything that you can to see that that happens.
Michael Sullivan: I'd like to work for you.
Frank Nitti: [Chuckles] Well... that's very interesting.
Michael Sullivan: And in return, I'd like you to turn a blind eye to... what I have to do.
Frank Nitti: And what is that?
Michael Sullivan: Kill the man who murdered my family.
[Sullivan has a gun to Kelly's head]
Jack Kelly: Think, Mike. Don't be stupid. I'm just the messenger.
Michael Sullivan: [lowers his gun] Then give Mr. Rooney a message for me.
Jack Kelly: What is it?
[Sullivan shoots him]
John Rooney: There are only murderers in this room! Michael! Open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven.
Michael Sullivan: Michael could.
John Rooney: Then do everything that you can to see that that happens.
Michael Sullivan: I'd like to work for you.
Frank Nitti: [Chuckles] Well... that's very interesting.
Michael Sullivan: And in return, I'd like you to turn a blind eye to... what I have to do.
Frank Nitti: And what is that?
Michael Sullivan: Kill the man who murdered my family.
[Sullivan has a gun to Kelly's head]
Jack Kelly: Think, Mike. Don't be stupid. I'm just the messenger.
Michael Sullivan: [lowers his gun] Then give Mr. Rooney a message for me.
Jack Kelly: What is it?
[Sullivan shoots him]