IMDB 7.2
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Los Angeles private detective Harry Moseby is a former pro football player who now is a detective. Harry has just discovered that his wife has been cheating on him and it hits him pretty hard.
Harry is hired to find a runaway girl named Delly (Melanie Griffith) , who probably has good reason to run away from her mother. The mother wants her back, because she gets money from her trust fund.
Harry is hired to find a runaway girl named Delly (Melanie Griffith) , who probably has good reason to run away from her mother. The mother wants her back, because she gets money from her trust fund.
Harry follows her down to the Florida Keys, where Delly's stepfather has fled. Harry meet Paula, and shows her a famous 1922 chess end game that could have been ended with a queen sacrifice and three knight moves, but the move was missed.
Things are strange down on the Keys and Harry brings Delly home and gets his pay. But as he leaving he can see that not all is well between Delly and her mother,
When Delly dies in an accident on a movie set a little later, Harry is really confused. He reconciles with his wife but heads down to the Keys to see what is going on. Things get crazier and crazier and when Harry finally figures out what is going on he is the middle of the ocean with two dead bodies.
A great movie showing the chaotic, confusing, turbulent times following the Viet Nam war and Watergate.
Things are strange down on the Keys and Harry brings Delly home and gets his pay. But as he leaving he can see that not all is well between Delly and her mother,
When Delly dies in an accident on a movie set a little later, Harry is really confused. He reconciles with his wife but heads down to the Keys to see what is going on. Things get crazier and crazier and when Harry finally figures out what is going on he is the middle of the ocean with two dead bodies.
A great movie showing the chaotic, confusing, turbulent times following the Viet Nam war and Watergate.
Quotes:
Harry Moseby: Nobody. One side is just losing slower than the other.
Harry Moseby: I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry.
Harry Moseby: What happened to your face?
Quentin: I won second prize in a fight.
Nick: [about his collection of Mexican statuary] Don't you like them, Har?
Harry Moseby: I would, if they didn't all remind me of Alex Karras.
Arlene Iverson: Are you the kind of detective who, once you get on a case nothing can get you off it? Bribes, beatings, the allure of a woman...
Harry Moseby: That was true in the old days. Before we had a union.
Paula: Do you ask these questions because you wanna know the answer or is it just something you think a detective should do?